Blake Stone under Virtual PC

#### BLAKE STONE v3.0 APOGEE 3-D ACTION ####
In 1992 came Wolfenstein. NOW there's Blake
Stone: Aliens of Gold! A battle against a
madman who's hatched an army of doom, with
mutants, biodroids, demons--all genetically
designed for mass terror! Blake v3.0 has an
even more impressive list of features than
the original release. Rediscover it today!
Requires 386+, DOS 5+. AdLib/SB supported.
11 levels in shareware version--66 full ver.
Nearly two years to make by JAM Productions.

I must confess that I never gave Blake Stone enough time when it first came out. This game built on the Wolfenstein engine in a lot of ways - and is really quite polished. It adds support for ceiling and floor textures - and has a really interesting variety of weapons and opponents. So why did I ignore it back in 1993 when it was released? Well - ID had already started talking about (and slipping on delivery of) DOOM. We were all eagerly waiting for non-90 degree walls, varied room heights, and the various other technological breakthroughs that were going to be in DOOM. As such - Blake Stone (which came out several months before DOOM) was a real let down.

After I had got over the DOOM rush - I did go back and play this game some more - and really enjoyed it:

Blake Stone runs wonderfully under Virtual PC. You can find out more about it here: https://www.3drealms.com/blake/index.html and you can download the shareware version from here: ftp://ftp.3drealms.com/share/1bs30.zip

Cheers,
Ben