The Man Who Nuked Too Much

Few video game personalities have a genealogy based on actual historical events. Duke is one such character. Before we track the history of his games we feel we should chart the history of his ancestors as recorded by the anthropology department of GT Interactive.

1,000,000 BC - Nukanderthal Man
Have club, will travel. Simple, strong, primitive. The first Nukem.

400 BC - Nukocrates
Greek philosopher. Proposed theory relating righteous butt-kicking and pure contentment. Killed Aristotle.

200 BC - Nukulus Caesar
Roman emperor who divided his time between partying and conquering. Invented the combat toga.

150 AD - St. Nukus
Christian martyr. Thrown to the lions. Ate the lions.

400 AD - Bhodisattva Nukartha
Indian mystic and peace-loving wiseman... until he got a few beers in him, and then he was a maniac.

750 AD - Genghis Khanukem
Middle Eastern warrior. All barbarian. All Nukem.

990 AD - Nukem the Red
Helmets. Beer. Swords. Pillaging. Just like your average Nukem vacation.

1412 - Ducco Da Nuko
Italian explorer. Reached America before Columbus. Too busy buffalo wrestling to get the publicity.

1590 - Tsar Nukolas I
Great Russian Leader. Bathed in vodka. Invented Cossack dancing. Wrestled bears. (Editor's note: Although unconfirmed by GT Interactive historians, there is evidence to show that Tsar Nukolas caught horses for his girlfriend Catherine.)

1650 - Nukovsky
Austrian composer known for military marching music and his 324 illegitimate children.

1790 - Nukollean Bonaparte
Imperious French general who conquered half the world. Court-martialed for excessive taunting.

1850 - Nukazulu
Fierce African chieftain who united 100 tribes under his leadership. Shrinking heads way before Duke.

1940 - Dick Nukemheimer
Failed physicist. Dismissed from Manhattan Project for advocating splitting atom with head-butt. Last seen babe hunting on Bikini Atoll.

1997 - Duke Nukem
The latest. The greatest. The butt kicker's butt kicker.

Now show me Duke's PC beginnings.