John Carmack celebrates Quake's induction in the Videogame Hall of Fame: 'We threw everything we had at it, and it was really a little bit more than we could chew at the time… it was rough' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[-] restingboredface@sh.itjust.works 10 points 22 hours ago

If you like video game history you might enjoy this video from Vox. Quake's custom keyboard mapping settings (unique for the time) was a big development in gaming. One gamer's personal settings config became popular and ultimately established the WASD control scheme that has been basically the standard since.

https://youtu.be/TPCpXXBHFSA

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 21 hours ago

I still prefer EDSF, but I remember skating in deathmatch using the arrow keys and ctrl, alt to fire, on my 36k modem

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