The Hell Freezes Over Contest
PrintGuess what just landed on my desk?
If you guessed Duke Nukem Forever, pat yourself on the back!
If you guessed a copy of Duke Nukem Forever that we're giving away, then ...well, that would be eerily on target.
Nonetheless! We have one copy of this highly-anticipated, fourteen-years-in-the-making game to give to one lucky winner! Just post a comment with your favorite piece of technology from 1997 (either in the comments section of this article, or on our Facebook page) and we'll pick a winner at random tomorrow, Tuesday June 14th at 3:00pm PST. Usual contest rules and regulations apply - you can check the small print below if you're unfamiliar - again, due to legal restrictions the contest is limited to U.S. residents. Good luck to all!
Rules
MaximumPC contest rules: Anyone who posts a comment listing a piece of technology from 1997 to this story on either MaximumPC.com or the MaximumPC Facebook page will be entered to win the one copy of Duke Nukem Forever described in this article--one entry per accepted comment. Prizes will be awarded by random drawing. Submissions will be accepted on our Facebook.com fanpage. Submissions will be accepted until Tuesday the 14th of June at 03:00 PM PST. By entering this contest, you agree that Future US, Inc. may use your name, likeness, website, and submission for promotional purposes without further payment. Employees of Sponsor, its respective parent, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, and agents, and foregoing employees¹ household or immediate family members (defined as parent, spouse, child, sibling, or grandparent) are NOT eligible to enter Contest. All prizes will be awarded, and no minimum number of entries is required. Prizes won by minors will be awarded to their parents or legal guardians. Future US, Inc. is not responsible for damages or expenses the winners might incur as a result of this contest or the receipt of a prize, and winners are responsible for income taxes based on the value of the prize received. A list of winners may also be obtained by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope toFuture US, Inc. c/o MaximumPC Contest, 4000 Shoreline Court, Suite 400, South San Francisco, CA 94080. This contest is limited to residents of the United States. No purchase necessary; void in Arizona, Maryland, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and where prohibited by law.
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herrgazz
August 23, 2011 at 6:37pm
If you picked a winner on June 14, howcum there's still an active link to this page on August 23????????
Neel Chauhan
August 19, 2011 at 4:51am
Max PC rated duke nukem
4/10. If it got rated 4/10 then why did they give out the game?
terryswiss
August 09, 2011 at 8:25pm
Sony's Walkman is unbeatable! (I think there's more to this post's headline than it looks..)
ABouman
June 16, 2011 at 5:26pm
A hearty Duke Nukem Congradulations to buddhababy816 who won our copy of DNF! Thanks everyone else for entering and check back tomorrow - we'll have another contest then!
ABouman
June 24, 2011 at 1:50pm
We often choose winners using random number selection, that was the case here as well.
jbwhite99
June 15, 2011 at 9:28am
My boss had one of these boxes - back when meeting rooms had overhead projectors (no LCD projectors) - you could remove the back panel of the Thinkpad, and strap it onto the projector with the panel on the projector and the keyboard/guts hanging over the edge.
Found this picture, but it really wasn't this elegant:
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img1.qq.com/digi/20060425/3566815.jpg&imgrefurl=http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php%3Ff%3D2%26t%3D72959&usg=__64a1RbbHzABLDiFgkRkquRBkp70=&h=500&w=375&sz=33&hl=en&start=0&sig2=7FOuHjqlcowEjuFxiNdO0A&zoom=1&tbnid=RPDDnaidRElquM:&tbnh=157&tbnw=115&ei=M934Tc2AKYPTgQebw5HyCw&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dthinkpad%2B755cdv%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3DGqt%26sa%3DX%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26biw%3D1920%26bih%3D1073%26tbm%3Disch%26prmd%3Divns&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=470&page=1&ndsp=57&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0&tx=46&ty=82&biw=1920&bih=1073
Keith E. Whisman
June 14, 2011 at 7:53pm
Here is the URL to send a message to the Arizona Governor.
http://www.governor.state.az.us/contact.asp
jcookeusa
June 15, 2011 at 9:34am
Hi. I'm assuming this is because the contest is void in Arizona....yes? I live in another "voided" state -- Maryland. Just curious -- Why is it void in AZ? I tried to find out why it was in MD, but to no avail. Many other contests/sweeps aren't.
Thanks,
Justin
KenLV
June 14, 2011 at 10:43pm
Thank man. I’d been meaning to send her a thank you note. Much obliged.
raptorspike
June 14, 2011 at 2:33pm
Its not from 1997 in release, but my N64 was my item to rock that year!
Keith E. Whisman
June 14, 2011 at 7:35pm
56K Modems were crap in 1997 as well. I had a 1MB satalite connection. It sucked for gaming because the latency was freaking crazy high, like 5000MS.
kydrobot52
June 14, 2011 at 1:40pm
Canopus Pure3D.....best piece of hardware.
By installing that bad boy and using it to play OpenGL quake, it required an extra year and a half to finish college. Gaming was so pure and fun in those days
michaelnomad
June 14, 2011 at 1:17pm
My first ATI All-In-Wonder card let me have my tv radio and music player all in one device in my cramped little room.
ocnier
June 14, 2011 at 11:47am
Probably playing xwing on my 486dx2 with my first 3dfx card along with syndicate back in college. Those were good times!!!!!
timmyw
June 14, 2011 at 11:12am
MP3 players, camera phones, smart phones, palm pilot were introduced. Google wasn't even around until 1998.
How about NetFlix. May not be a technology per se, but using technology they've done their part for revolutionizing entertainment delivery.
p47riot
June 14, 2011 at 10:42am
It's a toss up for me. The Diamond Monster 3D because WOW--GL Quake! The other was the Assassin 3D --the ONLY gaming device I would ever tout as being superior to the mouse and keyboard in an FPS. Oh the fragalicious memories.
m31337
June 14, 2011 at 10:26am
My first Discman with bass boost! having transitioned from my walkman I never knew music sounded so good.
Does the poor doomed space marine make a cameo in DNF!?
evilanimator
June 14, 2011 at 10:14am
What could be more appropriate than fellow Build engine sibling Shadow Warrior. That game was nothing more than megabytes of guilty pleasure.
Iglidden
June 14, 2011 at 10:13am
It has to be the NanoGuitar! "made for fun to illustrate the technology"
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/july97/guitar.ltb.html
sitswithmouse
June 14, 2011 at 10:02am
My favorite piece of technology in '97 was my Matrox Mystique graphics card- my welcome to 3d.
seanmao858
June 14, 2011 at 9:34am
I still remember running Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on my 486DX 66MHz computer with ~120MB hard drive space. My parents bought it from Circuit City for ~$5,000. I later added a Sound Blaster 16 and then I was in heaven. Running Doom was awesome and my computer was most likely the bare minimum to run that game. Other memorable games were Commander Keen, Wolfenstein, the Sierra games, etc... MEMMAKER was my best friend at that time as it was required to run almost all games I bought. Then DOS4GW helped a bit with other games... I can go on and on...
blindhorizon
June 14, 2011 at 9:17am
i have to go with the P2 it was blazing fast for me back in the day. GO INTEL.....DUKE ROCKS!!!
khaz19
June 14, 2011 at 8:55am
SONY Discman D-151 Portable CD Player with a car kit. I used that thing every day. I still have it, and it still works.
By the way...the picture in the article contains two counts of hotness.
Magnus
June 14, 2011 at 8:28am
Oh man, the pentium II brought my home computer (which my parents just bought from a tiny company called Dell) into the future.
For the first time, we had the internet, movies, music, even STARCRAFT.
It was good times. I sometimes miss those days...until I see DNF sitting right there.
GeneralTso294
June 14, 2011 at 8:22am
For my favorite piece of technology, I would have to go with the XFX NVIDIA GeForce 7600GT. I bought one of these cards a loooong time ago when they were cutting edge, and used it as my main card. I have since then bought another to go SLI, as well as about 5 more to put in friend's computers. I've extremely satisfied with the card and it lasted a VERY long time without a need to be replaced. To this day, two of these cards in SLI can run the latest games (in low graphics, slowly of course). All in all, this was a great card, and definitely my favorite piece of technology.
sinan
June 14, 2011 at 8:14am
The Pentium II. That machine amazingly is still running to this day. :)
Kazz
June 14, 2011 at 7:48am
Without a doubt it would be the combination of the Pentium II and the Netgear ISDN modem/router RT328!!!
antman2759
June 14, 2011 at 7:47am
I know it would of given it away...but instead of Lucy it should have been a hog from the Duke Nukem Forever game...I put together and old computer someone gave me last year and loaded Duke Nukem on it...It works just a s well as it did back in 1984...
antman2759
June 14, 2011 at 7:46am
I know it would of given it away...but instead of Lucy it should have been a hog from the Duke Nukem Forever game...I put together and old computer someone gave me last year and loaded Duke Nukem on it...It works just a s well as it did back in 1984...
buddhababy816
June 14, 2011 at 7:12am
Because I'm tough to the bone. In 97 I had my great and powerful Pentium 133 Mhz system touting 2MB DIAMOND STEALTH video card with 3D graphics ACCELERATOR and that my friends was kicking ASS and DON'T FORGET my 16 BIT sound card WITH MICROPHONEEEEE input. YEEEEE HAAAAA! GET IT PUNKS!
I GOT THE POWER TO RULE YOUR ASSSES.
Now give me my game!
Brdn666
June 14, 2011 at 6:57am
I got my gameboy pocket in 1997, and that was the first gaming device I ever owned all to myself. Really started a love for games.
tkane18
June 14, 2011 at 6:54am
I think I upgraded to a 1GB hard drive that year.
It's going to take me forever (not quite Duke Nukem Forever) to fill this up!
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