Duke enjoyed relatively steady success throughout the 1990s, quipping one-liners and blasting his way through hoards of alien scum. Duke Nukem 3D was his first foray into the first-person, and after the game's excellent critical reception, the Duke Nukem franchise never looked back. Duke's journey started as pixelated side-scrolling shoot-em-ups before settling on the more iconic first-person perspective he's known for today. Developed and published in 1991 by Apogee Software, the original Duke Nukem is a vastly different experience from its more contemporary counterparts. When discussing adult-oriented first-person shooters in the 1990s, the three big players were DOOM, Wolfenstein, and Duke Nukem. Shortly after the video and its related screencaps made the rounds, former Duke Nukem Forever project lead George Broussard confirmed its apparent authenticity on Twitter, telling fans that 'the leak looks real.' He said that while it may be playable, it shouldn't be looked at as a game, 'just a smattering of barely populated test levels.At one point in time, Duke Nukem was an absolute pillar of the video game industry. (Optimistic retro gamers may want to pillage their closets for spare GeForce 6600 XT GPUs, just in case.)

Though this week's video only includes three demonstrated guns (pistol, shotgun, semi-automatic rifle), the leaker suggested that nearly all options in the video's weapons-list interface are functional, with the exception of 'the chainsaw and the freezer.' It's unclear if the game files have been manually patched to work on modern PCs or whether interested players will need to pull out era-appropriate PCs with proper drivers, OSes, and hardware. Enlarge / Doubters requested this image from the newly discovered Duke Nukem Forever build, and the leaker obliged.

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