RIP: Dean Stockwell, 85

[thewayne]

What a career! Born into a family of performers going back into vaudeville, Dean had a career spanning over five decades: he was a child actor, appeared in Long Day's Journey Into Night, Battlestar Galactica which led to many TV series roles, his recurring series as the holographic sidekick Al to Sam in Quantum Leap. But what I did not know, and will henceforth cherish, is he voiced Duke Nukem.

You had an amazing career, sir. Rest in peace, you've earned it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/dean-stockwell-dead-obit-1255247

Comments

[silveradept]

It was definitely different from Doom and Quake, both in content (the first level in the adult theater) and in the kind of weapons and tools available to do things with. (It was also the first game where the rating system setting actually changed things.) I never finished that much pay the first few shareware levels, so maybe at some nostalgic point, I'll go back and actually play it.

[thewayne]

The graphics were terrible, but all games at that time had pretty terrible graphics.