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The first game in the Quake series, it was originally released for MS-DOS and Windows, followed by Mac OS, Linux, and Saturn in 1997 and Nintendo 64 in 1998. The game is split between futuristic military bases and medieval, gothic environments, featuring both science fiction and fantasy weaponry and enemies as the player battles possessed soldiers and demonic beasts such as ogres or armor-clad knights.

How to Play Quake

The RetroPlayers.Club Player ships with Quake already mapped — the layout below is the default, and Controller Mapping in the app rebinds any of it.

The Story Behind Quake

Here is where Quake came from and how it reached the Sega Saturn.

There was an earlier version v.1.19 which lacked stylus support. It is unclear as to whether the game actually did ship with the Samsung Nexus. This texture set was reused in episode three for the map Vaults of Zin.

The project was only in development for about two weeks. Morale on the project was low, and developers were under crunch from December 1995 through to release in June 1996. Romero revealed in 2023 that the dragon model was never actually implemented, and had simply been placed in the sky for the screenshot.

What You'll Play

Quake is a retro game for 1 player, played full-speed in the free RetroPlayers.Club Player with its Controller Mapping panel.

Before accessing an episode, there is a set of three pathways with easy, medium, and hard skill levels. Bunnyhopping or strafe-jumping grant faster movement, while rocket jumping enables the player to reach otherwise-inaccessible areas at the cost of some health. Each episode starts the player from scratch, without any previously collected items.

After all of the runes are obtained, the floor of the hub level opens up to reveal an entrance to the "END" level, leading to the game's final boss. Quake single-player campaign is organized into four individual episodes with seven to eight levels in each (including one secret level per episode; episode one's secret level has very low gravity). The ultimate objective at the end of each episode is to recover a magic rune.

Why It Still Hits

Quake is a retro game that Sega Saturn players still load up; the reviews and rankings below say why.

Less than a month after Quake was released (and a month before they actually reviewed the game), Next Generation listed it as number 9 on their "Top 100 Games of All Time", saying that it is similar to Doom but supports a maximum of eight players instead of four. Based on the success of the first Quake game, Quake II, Quake III Arena, and Quake 4 were published, with Quake 4 being developed by Raven Software using the id Tech 4 engine from Doom 3. Although each particular level is credited to one runner, the ideas and techniques used are iterative and collaborative in nature, with each runner picking up tips and ideas from the others, so that speeds keep improving beyond what was thought possible as the runs are further optimized and new tricks or routes are discovered.

In 2025, The Strong National Museum of Play inducted Quake into its World Video Game Hall of Fame. Most critics compared the port unfavorably to the Saturn version of Duke Nukem 3D (which came out just a few months earlier), mainly in terms of gameplay.

Background sources: Wikipedia.

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