Posts Tagged ‘1996’
Quake at 30: The Game That Shook the Future of First-Person Shooters
When Quake arrived in 1996, it did more than add another landmark title to id Software’s already formidable reputation. It pushed the first-person shooter into a new technical, social, and cultural era. Released after the genre-defining success of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, Quake transformed the shooter from a fast, flat, maze-like experience into a fully…
Read MoreTrainspotting at 30: Still Choosing Life
Thirty years after its 1996 release, Trainspotting still feels less like a period piece than a live wire. Danny Boyle’s film, adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel, arrived with the velocity of a music video and the moral discomfort of social realism. It was funny, appalling, stylish, bleak and exhilarating, sometimes within…
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