Quake
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Released on June 22, 1996, Quake is a dark-fantasy first-person shooter developed by id Software featuring 32 single-player levels and 6 deathmatch levels Combining medieval architecture, peculiar technology, and Lovecraftian creatures, Quake was built from the ground up around true 3D rendering and mouse-look controls In 2025, Quake was inducted into The Strong National Museum of Play's World Video Game Hall of Fame The Quake Engine (later open-sourced under GPL v2+ in December 1999) became the literal architectural root of modern 3D gaming—powering branches including Half-Life, Call of Duty, Heretic, and Hexen Its client-server multiplayer architecture and modding openness catalyzed the first national online gaming competition ("Red Annihilation"), directly seeding the billion-dollar esports industry Holds a 94/100 Metacritic score, placing it alongside 1990s PC landmarks such as Diablo (94) and Grim Fandango (94)
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Structured Facts & Specifications
Verified highlightsDeveloper
id Software (2021 Enhanced edition with Nightdive Studios & MachineGames)
Publisher
Bethesda Softworks (current)
Entity Name
Quake
Ontology Node Type
CreativeWork
Ontology Subclass
VideoGame
Original Release Date
June 22, 1996
Schema.org & Domain Tags
schema:VideoGame, schema:CreativeWork, wd:, domain:first-person-shooter, domain:esports-pioneer
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