Quake

2002 Randy Linden Platform: Nintendo Game Boy Advance Quake Advance is an impressive proof-of-concept created by veteran programmer Randy Linden, exploring the possibility of bringing id Software’s classic Quake to the humble Game Boy Advance. Randy was certainly no stranger to squeezing first-person shooters onto unlikely hardware, having previously been responsible for the remarkable Super Nintendo conversion of Doom. For the Game Boy Advance, he went a step further and created his own engine capable of rendering fully 3D environments and enemies rather than relying on the ray-casting techniques commonly used by other first-person games on the handheld. The results are extremely impressive for the hardware, with 3D enemies and animation, lighting effects, smooth movement and the ability to travel underwater. Even the pre-rendered weapon graphics react to changing lighting conditions through some clever palette manipulation. Despite being commonly referred to as Quake Advance, the…