Story Time!

So this trip down the retro rabbit hole takes us back to 1996’ish. Quake has been released and proceeded to consume unknown countless hours of my CPU and GPU cycles.

The Quake Shareware CD-ROM was interesting in that in addition to the shareware/demo release, it included the full version of the game in addition to the rest of ID’s catalog at the time. Another feature of the Quake CD (like many 90’s games) is that they were pressed as mix-mode CDs and supplied the soundtrack through traditional CD audio encoding as which you could play through your traditional Audio CD player. The soundtrack, and I believe sound effects, were created by Trent Reznor & Nine Inch Nails.