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          <font color="#804000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By 
          Stephanie &quot;<a target="" href="mailto:bobbi@loonygames.com">Bobbi</a>&quot; 
          Bergman</font></b></font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>George Broussard's 
          response to the article:</b></font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Bobbi, </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Very, very, 
          very cool article. It's amazing that 2.5 years after release people 
          still talk about this and seem to care. As for why we did what we did? 
          We wanted to portray a seedy/futuristic Los Angeles and women in business 
          suits didn't fit the bill. Did we do it knowing we'd spark controvery 
          and sell more copies? You bet. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The best game 
          design is when you can do something new and different, spark controversy 
          and get people talking about a game. We tried to keep all the female 
          references in <b>Duke 3D</b> in context.at least and appropriate to 
          where you were in the game. If you're going through a seedy red light 
          district you expect porn shops and strip bars. You don't expect them 

          on space stations etc. </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">As for shooting 
          the women? Well we had to, because you can destroy everything else in 
          the environment. It simply did not make sense to shoot them with rockets 
          and have nothing happen. How lame would that have been? And removing 
          the strippers was not an option, so at least we tried to deter the player 
          from doing it by having <b>Duke </b>say "Damn" and spawning in bad guys. 
          I'm not sure what more people wanted from us in that regard. We went 
          way over the top.</font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> In the end 
          I'm very glad we pushed limits that hadn't been pushed in mainstream 
          games before and got people discussing the topic. We certainly have 
          a few new ideas and will try to do similar things in <b>Duke Nukem Forever</b>. 
          </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Thanks for the 
          story. I look forward to more on loonygames ;) </font></p>
        <p align="LEFT"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">-- George Broussard, 
          </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Partner, 3D Realms<br>
          <a href="http://www.3drealms.com">http://www.3drealms.com</a> </font></p>
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    <td><i><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2"><b>Credits:</b> 
      Illustration &copy; 1998 Mike Sanzone. This article is &copy; 1998 Stephanie 
      Bergman. All other content is &copy; 1998 <a target="_self" href="http://www.loonyboi.com">loonyboi 
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