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I was always one for organization and record keeping – even back then. That’s not to say the company was a mess, but certain areas that I had direct responsibility over were.
You can click it for a larger version, which is easier to read.Īnyway, once I got there, I noticed a few of the things in place then were in a disorganized state. If you want to see the letter that got me to move 1,400 miles away to work for Apogee, I’ve taken a pic of it. The message wasn’t dated, but it would have been early fall, as I was formally hired in October, had another trip to Texas in November, and moved permanently in early December. I kept it, although it’s not in the greatest shape almost 30 years later. Something interesting, in looking for a document for another part of this article, I happened upon the original message that Scott Miller posted in the Apogee beta group asking if anyone wanted to come down to Garland and work for Apogee. I was on phones to have me learn the products, and then I moved into online support. In those earliest days, I did phone support, which could be a challenge at times (RIP Debbie Flowers). After a time, I realized I was there to replace “Employee 1”, so I go WAY back. I was working for AT&T at the time, so jumping halfway across the country to work for a company with about 20 employees from a place with about 70,000 was a major culture shock. After a few chats, I decided to move from Philadelphia to Dallas to work for Apogee. Scott asked in the beta group if anyone wanted to come work for Apogee, and I jumped on it. This was Shawn Green, who left Apogee to go to id Software. During this time, the first ever employee hired by Apogee (other than Scott’s family) decided to leave Apogee. I alerted Scott Miller to that, and it was removed, and not long after that, Scott asked me if I wanted to be a beta tester for Apogee.
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I was a customer, and bought many Apogee games from this era myself (Secret Agent, Commander Keen, the original Duke Nukem, etc…) Once Wolfenstein 3D came out (which I also bought), there was a version that came out that claimed to be a “new porn update for Wolf3D”.
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The PC version would distribute Apogee shareware, as it was very popular at the time. I used to have a BBS named “The Arsenal of Freedom” (first on Apple //, then on PC). I’ve told this story elsewhere before, but my first association with Apogee was as a BBS operator back in Philadelphia. Some Personal Stuff If you ordered a game from us in 1992 – it shipped from this desk. No content has been changed, just broken up into smaller pieces to help with the blog being able to render the pages! There will be navigation links on the subsequent pages.
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This first one is in the same spot as full size original. Now as my site has grown, it can’t process the thing in one giant piece on the front end, so I had to break it down into several smaller parts. When I wrote it in 2020, I did have some problems with the size, but it worked on the front end (even if I didn’t have problems on the back end). NOTE: In Jan 2023, this blog post became a problem for my site. Also, all the contents of this page are © 2020 Joe Siegler except for game screenshots and trailers.) (The spinning logos are leftover images from our 1990’s website designs.
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This isn’t meant to be an official document for Apogee Software Ltd / 3D Realms. This is my personal thoughts and observations. Diving into the history of the company that I was a customer for, worked at for almost 17 years, and still maintain a relationship with today.Ī side note: I started writing this as Realms Deep was still going on (5 Sep), and I didn’t release this until early November, so it took far longer to put together than I thought it would – ha! Back in the day I was the company archivist, and moreso than anyone else there I seemed to care more about the legacy and history of the company. I always meant to lay this out, but the current incarnation of the company did a really cool “ Realms Deep” thing last month, so I thought I’d get around to doing this historical piece. I’m writing about the history of the company.Īpogee was founded back in 1987, and still exists today, although the path to get from then till now has a lot of twisty, confusing bits. I’ve talked about that part of my life in more detail elsewhere on this blog. I worked there from Dec of 1992 through May of 2009. I’m not getting into the why of that, just pointing out what happened in the past. Was probably the single most fun job I’ve ever had in my life, and to this day, I still wish the old team was together. Those who know me (and have read my blog over the years) know that I spent quite some time working for Scott Miller & George Broussard of Apogee Software (later 3D Realms).
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