Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22 1996. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games.

It can be said that the original Quake game pushed most PC hardware to its limits, due to never-before-seen features it offered: complex textured 3D environments, polygon-modelled enemies with certain intelligence, and the like. Quake was able to overshadow almost all 3D-shooters at the time, including Blood and Duke Nukem 3D, both based on simpler 3D requirements and sprite-based characters. In fact, the poor performance of 486 processors on Quake pushed many people to upgrade to Pentium processors, while the excellent performance of the Pentium Pro, coupled with a fast video card, led to many servers and high-end workstations being used for Quake gaming. Its mixture of dark, horror fantasy with good 3D shooting action was a major departure from other light-themed games of the time.

The majority of programming work on the Quake engine was done by John Carmack. Michael Abrash, a program performance optimization specialist, was brought in to help make the software rendering engine fast enough to be feasible. The background music for the game was composed by Trent Reznor, of Nine Inch Nails (within the game, the ammo box for the nailgun has the Nine Inch Nails logo on it in reference to this). Quake was released just as the Internet was commercially coming of age, and gamers were graduating from local bulletin boards to the global online community. id Software recognized, before anyone else, that the future of competitive gaming lay with the Internet, and so Quake was the second game whose multiplayer could be played against many people on the Internet rather than with only people on a local network.

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@josh_robb Dude, Michael Abrash is a legend. Like @jonskeet, he appears in strage places. Did you know he worked on Quake?
fastchicken (Nic Wise) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:46:32 -0000
@josh_robb Dude, Michael Abrash is a legend. Like @jonskeet, he appears in strage places. Did you know he worked on Quake?
LOL ~ RT @RodrigoBNO: Im so sorry but... this is the worst headline EVER: AP: No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast.
ElizabethJA56 (~ Elizabeth ~) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:45:48 -0000
LOL ~ RT @RodrigoBNO: Im so sorry but... this is the worst headline EVER: AP: No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast.
No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast (http://cli.gs/ea7TE) Seattle
News4Seattle (News Seattle Twits) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:42:32 -0000
No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast (http://cli.gs/ea7TE) Seattle
AlertNet: INDONESIA: WASH concerns a month after Sumatra quake http://bit.ly/byzHT
AllNewsSources (AllNewsSources) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:41:03 -0000
AlertNet: INDONESIA: WASH concerns a month after Sumatra quake http://bit.ly/byzHT
No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast: Federal officials say a 5.3 magnitude quake off the Oregon coast We.. http://bit.ly/3FGSWq
oregoninfo (Oregon Info) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:39:03 -0000
No tsunami from 5.3 quake off Oregon coast: Federal officials say a 5.3 magnitude quake off the Oregon coast We.. http://bit.ly/3FGSWq
@fys josh get on quake live! It's web browser based and free! Plus your macbook should run it great!
swinglehurst (Jim Swinglehurst) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:38:12 -0000
@fys josh get on quake live! It's web browser based and free! Plus your macbook should run it great!

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