As I paged through the files, I realized I now had access to a time capsule of gaming history. By a stroke of luck, the DVD was completely undamaged, and I was able to restore all 1.4 gigabytes of treasured 20 year-old memories. Among the old photos and warez and pirated movies was my C:\Quake backup. I had made it a goal in 2020 to eliminate all my physical storage, and pulled out all my old recordable media and hard drives to restore one last time. C:\Quake - the backup of my late 90's Quake mod obsession! Running out of space on my hard drive sometime in the year 2000, I archived my C:\Quake folder in its entirety onto a single DVD-R which I put onto a spindle of other backup files and then promptly forgot about. By late 1996, my interest moved to Quake mods and custom maps downloaded over dial-up internet - with mods the fun never ended and it didn't cost anything extra! It was my Quake-mania that lead me to Shacknews (then called Quakeholio) in the first place.Ī few years of deep Quake passion later, and I'd moved on to Quake II and UT and other games. I saw the shareware demo at a friend's house and I knew there was something special to the true 3D graphics and compelling art design.
Even before I got my first home PC, I was obsessed with Quake.
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