Does anyone else remember the very original concept of Quake, as explained in the "Previews!" option in the main menu of the first Commander Keen?

  As our follow-up to the Commander Keen trilogy, Id Software is working on "The Fight for Justice": A completely new approach to fantasy gaming. You start not as a weakling with no food--You start as Quake, the strongest, most dangerous person on the continent. You start off with a Hammer of Thunderbolts, a Ring of Regeneration, and a trans-dimensional artifact. Here, the fun begins. You work for Justice, a secret organization devoted to vanquishing evil from the land! This is role-playing excitement!

  And you don't chunk around the screen. "The Fight for Justice" contains fully animated scrolling backgrounds. All the people you meet have their own lives, personalities, and objectives. A 256-color VGA version will be available (smooth scrolling 256-color screens--fancy that)!

  And the depth of play will be intense. No more "whack whack here's some gold." There will be interesting puzzles and decisions won't be "yes/no" but complex correlations of people and events.

  "The Fight for Justice" will be the finest PC game yet.

▲ denotes 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Can you describe where in the main menu this text lived? I can’t find a screenshot and want to jog my memory.

Commander Keen, Space Quest, Duke Nuke encapsulate my earliest memories of using a computer.

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mdlxxv 4 hours ago | parent [-]

In the main menu of Commander Keen 1: Invasion of the Vorticons, there's an option called "Previews!" (between "Ordering Info" and "Restart Demo"). First it shows a couple screenshots of the next two games. Then a text screen with more details appears. It can be scrolled up and down. At the very end there's a description of what would eventually end up as Quake. It was quite different from what we actually got. Only the "Quake" name survived, I think :)

	▲	denotes 44 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Amazing - I just remembered that all these old games are playable via the internet archive. Fired it up, followed your instructions, and found the text. I don’t think I ever explored that menu option as a youngster. Seeing that blue wolf-like man before the text appeared sent a chill down my spine. Thanks for enabling this blast from the past.