“‘I got a call from Noel Lee, the boss over there, he actually goes by the name The Head Monster, clearly this guy knows what he likes–in addition to making the best cables on the planet.’ Nukem grinned, ‘I can respect that.'”
If he hadn’t already become a cash cow for his developers, 3D Realms, they certainly tied a great bell around his veiny neck by September of that year when the lunkhead was forced to hawk Monster Cables: A wholly new sci-fi shooter still radioactively glowed on the mushroom cloud horizon.īy 1999, the video game celebrity had been living the high life: a line of action figures by ReSaurus, Interact memory cards shaped in his likeness, his own Tiger Electronics LCD handheld.
Duke wasn’t through with the Nintendo 64 just yet after 1997’s Duke Nukem 64.