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Duke Nukem (Video Game)

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Duke Nukem is the first game of the Duke Nukem series.A no-brainer Platform Game, the title was split into three episodes, and starts in the near future of 1997, where Dr. Proton, your average Mad Scientist, attempts to Take Over the World with his army of Techbots. The eponymous Duke Nukem, self proclaimed hero extraordinaire, who is very angry about the fact that the attack has interrupted his favorite day-time Soap Operas, gets hired by the CIA to repel the invasion and take the fight back to Dr. Proton's lunar base.The events of the story then set off the plot of the sequel.
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Crate Expectations
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Crate Expectations: Dr. Proton's bases are filled with crates that can be shot for points, most of the time also containing bonus items, health, and other pickups. Some boxes are booby trapped as well.
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: Bio Menace is another shoot-em-up platformer that was developed by the same company and feels much too similar to Duke Nukeum to be a coincidence.
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Bag of Spilling
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Bag of Spilling: Duke loses all his upgrades and extra firepower between episodes.
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Easter Egg
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Easter Egg: All three episodes have a secret eleventh level (with largely the same design as Episode 2's first level but differing in backdrops and items), which is the level featured in the Attract Mode. It can be reached only by the warp-to-next-level cheat (or by using a Level Editor to add an exit door to Level 10), and cannot be completed (upon exiting it, the exit door simply disappears, along with everything else in the level except for Duke himself, forever trapping him in a level completely devoid of life). E1L9 has "TODD '91" spelled out in barrels below the level, not visible in standard gameplay.
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Attackable Pickup
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Attackable Pickup: Soda cans will fly upwards when shot, and catching them will give you more points than regular soda cans, but they no longer grant health. The cold turkey drumstick becomes a warm turkey dinner when shot once, yielding double health and double points.
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Booby Trap
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Booby Trap: Grey boxes, when opened, will sometimes reveal bombs. Duke has about a second to run or jump away before they cover the ground in a carpet of flames. Soda cans will sometimes be hidden behind boxes — meaning that when you try to shoot the box, you first hit the can, probably wasting it (and certainly not getting any health from it).
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Shareware
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Shareware: Episode 1 was published for free.
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Hyperactive Metabolism
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Hyperactive Metabolism: Health is gained from consuming turkey and soda.
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Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt
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Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt: Dr. Proton's lunar base (E2L10) is full of them.
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Early-Installment Weirdness
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Duke is a "self-proclaimed hero" working as an unofficial CIA agent before he even has a reputation whatsoever, not to mention he wears pink and watches Oprah. Dr. Proton is a predominantly human antagonist trying to take over the world, compared to the alien threats in the rest of the series, and the enemies are absolutely strange - everything from alien-like creatures and living flames, to Energizer Bunnies called "Rabbitoids" and all sorts of weird stuff, not to mention actual ACME weights all strewn about. Whereas future games have at least some semblance of seriousness mixed with satire, the first game is one wacky jaunt of a platformer.
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Segmented Serpent
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Segmented Serpent: The Snake Techbot consists of four blue/white balls linked together that have to be destroyed individually. For some reason, the remaining segments don't join into a shorter snake, but instead leave gaps where the destroyed segments were.
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The Goomba
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The Goomba: The first enemy encountered is a tiny robot half the size of Duke walking back and forth and takes one shot to destroy.
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X-Ray Sparks
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X-Ray Sparks: Happens to Duke whenever he takes Collision Damage, including non-electrical objects such as Spikes of Doom.
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Instant Roast
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Instant Roast: One shot from Nukem's gun is all it takes.
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Goomba Stomp
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Goomba Stomp: Attack Drone techbots can be defeated by landing on top of them. If the landing isn't precise, though, Duke will get hurt in the process.
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Attract Mode
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All three episodes have a secret eleventh level (with largely the same design as Episode 2's first level but differing in backdrops and items), which is the level featured in the Attract Mode. It can be reached only by the warp-to-next-level cheat (or by using a Level Editor to add an exit door to Level 10), and cannot be completed (upon exiting it, the exit door simply disappears, along with everything else in the level except for Duke himself, forever trapping him in a level completely devoid of life).
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The Points Mean Nothing
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The Points Mean Nothing: There's tons and tons of opportunities to rack up some serious points, but since the game has unlimited lives, there isn't really anything to do with them other than getting on the High Score table.
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Collision Damage
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Collision Damage: Everywhere. Some of the techbots don't even have weapons, they just hurt you by touching you. Depending on the specific bot, they may or may not die in the process.
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Real Men Wear Pink
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Real Men Wear Pink: Classic Duke is a bit more in touch with his feminine side. He wears a pink beater (The 16-color EGA graphics didn't leave much choice, since red was already taken up by his skin tone), watches soap operas and Oprah, and rocks a curlier hairdo compared to later games.
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Score Screen
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Score Screen: The game has tons of secrets and achievements that reward bonus points.
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Mercy Invincibility
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Mercy Invincibility: While Duke is flashing from being hurt, he can't be hurt again.
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Moving Target Bonus
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Moving Target Bonus: You can get a can of cola for one health point, or shoot the can and catch it while it's in the air before it disappears off the top of the screen for 1,000 score points. Some blue crates contain red balloons; catching (not shooting) them before they float away is worth 10,000 points. Then there's the Bunny Techbots; you can shoot them for just 200 points, or cuddle them for 5000 points (at the cost of a health point).note Destroying all of them, either way, is one of the secret end-of-level 10,000 point bonuses.
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Real Men Eat Meat
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Real Men Eat Meat: And shoot it first (to turn it into bigger meat).
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One-Hit Kill
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One-Hit Kill: Keep a watch out (and maybe a listen too) for those vertical barriers, the only thing in the game that can do this. On the bright side, destroying them is worth a lot of points, and will often deactivate some of the nearby environmental hazards.
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Robot Master
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Robot Master: Dr. Proton, oh, so very much.
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Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat
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Inexplicably Preserved Dungeon Meat: The game has Duke roaming around ten levels of Dr. Proton's Elaborate Underground Base, with an occasional turkey drumstick available to add about 12% health. Interestingly, Duke's handheld Wave-Motion Gun can be used to "cook" a turkey drumstick into a complete turkey dinner worth 25% health. Averted with the soda, which is sealed in a can.
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In a Single Bound
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In a Single Bound: Duke can jump about 1.5x his height. 2x with the super jump boots powerup.
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Destroy the Security Camera: Some shootable targets are security cameras suspended from the ceiling, that track Duke as he moves; each camera Duke zaps is worth 100 points. Doc Proton appears on a video screen in the first level, taunting Duke that he'll be tracking his every move. Destroying every camera on a level gives bonus points.
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The Maze
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The Maze: Many levels are like this, most prominently E1L5 (which Dr. Proton even refers to as his "Maze of Madness").
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Spelling Bonus
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Spelling Bonus: You can collect the letters D-U-K-E for points, and get more for getting them in the correct order.
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Cute Bruiser
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Cute Bruiser: The bright magenta Bunny Techbots. Cuddling them is worth a lot more than just shooting them (although of course at the cost of a health point).
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No-Damage Run
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No-Damage Run: One of the secret end-of-level bonuses awards 10000 points for not getting hurt at all during the level. The game manual notes that it's very tough to do.
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Destroyable Items
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Destroyable Items: The soda cans and balloons. Shooting cans at least has a purpose, if you already have full health and want more points, but balloons just pop.
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