Duke Nukem content is on a roll these holidays, and today comes yet another leaked build of a previously unreleased and cancelled game in the franchise, this time in the form of side-scrolling 2D version of Duke Nukem Forever planned back in 1996.

The leak contains the game's original files, alongside a level editor and some patched versions that are preconfigured to work with DosBox Staging.

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[RobXcore]

Reminded me of Doom Troopers on the SNES

 

[DarkCoffe64]

With gifts like these, this had to be the best crimbmas so far, heh

 

[DaFixer]

Nice find!
Played allot Duke Nukem 2d on my old 386 back in the day.

 

[urbanman2004]

Never cared for the side-scrolling Duke Nukem of the early days since it came off as kiddish w/ its style/design, but I didn't start getting into the franchise until Duke Nukem became 3D/64. Will def have to recover my already configured Dos Box setup from the archives so I can fire up this prototype.

 

[MikaDubbz]

Back in the old days when the same game, at least in name, could be drastically different based on the device it was played on

I always really liked this. Sure back in the day, it was typically pretty easy to determine which was the best release, but now with all the time between us and then, it's pretty cool that we can look at a fair amount of games that had both very different 3D and 2D releases on the same day, sometimes with even very different games despite being sharing being 2D or 3D.

 

[oji]

Great addition to Doom 2D.

 

[Kwyjor]

Isn't this the game that was re-skinned as Alien Rampage? LGR did a whole video on it.


It's available on Steam and you can occasionally buy it for practically nothing.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/alienrampage/info/

So, the big question is: just how far is this leaked game from Alien Rampage? And if Alien Rampage is closer to a finished project, can it be re-skinned with bits from this leak?

 

[phil3254]

well boiz looks like....

"Its Time To Kick Ass And Chew Bubble Gum, And I'm All Out Of Gum"

 

[J-Lin]

Would the second coming be considered DLC then?

Moreso a divisive Part 2.

 

[Avalyn]

Isn't this the game that was re-skinned as Alien Rampage? LGR did a whole video on it.


It's available on Steam and you can occasionally buy it for practically nothing.
https://isthereanydeal.com/game/alienrampage/info/

So, the big question is: just how far is this leaked game from Alien Rampage? And if Alien Rampage is closer to a finished project, can it be re-skinned with bits from this leak?

It was definitely! I just tried the leaked DnF96 files, it's not very playable - but hopefully someone can make a restoration project from it.

 

[Jayro]

Think Randy is seething yet?

 

[SS4]

This reminds me of Blackthorne on the SNES

 

[James_]

The fact that this year not only did we get a 2001 build of Duke Nukem Forever that people thought they were never going to see, but a 1996 build from when the game was planned to be a Duke Nukem I & II successor instead of a Duke Nukem 3D sequel, AND also a build of an unrelated and never released Duke Nukem game, is fucking mindboggling.

 

[JaNDeRPeiCH]

Duke nukem skin in the old game named abuse.Thats why never released this cancelled game..

 

[Menelkir]

This looks like the Manhattan Project.

 

[ack]

i wonder if 3d realms got hacked

 

[R3DRE111AVER]

Is it a full game ? where can i D L it ?