Girlz 'N' Games #44: The male miscarriage

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This comic will probably make a lot more sense if you're at all familiar with the controversial, much maligned "miscarriage" strip, and related storyline, that appeared last year on gaming web comic, Ctrl+Alt+Del:


I'd been waiting a long time to take Tim Absath's strip and flip the gender roles around (hopefully to amusing effect), and just a few weeks ago I finally received my chance when it was announced that game development studio 3D Realms was shutting shop and/or firing all its staff.

The significance of this closure was that it basically meant the cancellation of Duke Nukem Forever, just as the First First Shooter seemed to be nearing release... after 12 YEARS of development.

Now I was never a Duke Nukem fan - my "oldschool" FPS of choice were Rise of the Triad and Heretic - but I do understand the warm, fuzzy place Duke Nukem 3D occupies in many gamers' hearts.

Duke Nukem 3D was, after all, one of the original "irresponsible" games, garnering plenty of controversy over the fact that your badass hero blew away pig cops, tipped strippers and caused chaos at a porn movie cinema. Ah, the days when parents were blissfully unaware of what their barely pubescent boys were playing...

"Shake it, baby..."
"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum."
"Come get some."


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Comments

Team America said…
ok, the list there obviously includes "other" platform quotes, some of those were not in the game.

the only Duke version worth remembering is the PC one!!! It tool an hour to copy it over lap-link 5 so we could play multiplayer.... daisy changed serial cables ... WHOOOOO!!!!
4:53 PM
MJenks said…
Well done. I actually got the reference without the explanation. I was like "Oh, hey, she's flipped the...yes, very well done!"
9:51 PM
Pfangirl said…
Thanks for the comments, guys.

Team America, you totally prove my point about how obsessive guys got about Duke Nukem 3D back in the day :)
10:12 AM
Unknown said…
Good to see that someone else beside me mourned the loss of a great game development studio, I shed a tear for Duke Nukem Forvever, as well as probably Pray, who is going to do a remake of Shadow Warrior now?! ;(
3:07 PM
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