
                          Fun Things to Do and See

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One of the greatest things about Duke Nukem 3D are all the gags and hidden
jokes the developers planted in the game. Also, there are a few bugs in the
game that are fun to exploit. Here are a few:

Episode 1: L.A. Meltdown

   * In the theater bathroom on level 1, check just above the urinals for a
     special phone number. Remember Tommy Tutone from the 80's?

   * Throw a pipe bomb or shoot an RPG into a teleporter. :-)

   * Hang out by the fire hydrant in level 1 with an RPG ready. Swallow the
     steroids and shoot a rocket back towards where you start the level.
     Then, immediately run after that rocket. Don't run into it or you're
     toast. Instead, run past it on the side. Then, turn around right as
     you reach the building. If you time it right, you can take the rocket
     right in the face. Then you get to see your blood spread all over the
     ground. Suicide has never been so fun! (by James C. Barnes)

   * Go into the bar next to the disco on level 2 and check out what's
     playing on the tube. Do the words "slow-speed chase" ring a bell?
     (Note : you won't get to see what's on TV if you fire an RPG into the
     room before entering.)

   * Turn off clipping mode with 'dnclip' and walk through a mirror. Neat
     effect!

   * Go into the chapel on level 3 and walk up to the altar. Shoot out both
     stained-glass windows and then press the space bar against the face
     panel. The cross will invert, and a passage will open on the left
     side. You'll find an octabrain and a corpse in a green space suit.
     Duke says, "That's one doomed space marine!" (If you haven't played
     Doom DeathMatch, you won't get the joke). There's a chaingun on the
     ledge behind the corpse, too.

   * Try this: go outside, turn on God mode, and fly up with the jetpack as
     high as you can go. Press F7 to turn on view mode, and then turn off
     your jetpack. After you hit the ground you'll get a nice view of what
     you'd look like if God mode wasn't on!

   * On Level 6, the Launch Facility, you start out facing a slow-moving
     turbine. Go between any two blades of the turbine, and drop a
     holoduke. Step back, and watch its behavior as the blades hit it.
     Utterly useless, but interesting.

   * Try using your pistol or shotgun to sink a few balls on the pool table
     near the bar on level 2. You can also hit the space bar against the
     table to shoot the balls, too.

   * On level 6, try tracking through some blood under the rocket and
     leaving footprints. Then, after you launch the rocket, the footprints
     are still there--hanging in midair.

   * If you kill an alien while he is standing under one the the vertically
     opening doors, the door will come down and squish the body, and
     whenever it opens after that it a stringy bit of flesh gets stretched
     between the two halves of the door.

   * Get a "shock" by touching the electrical outlet in the arcade in level
     1.

   * Start a new game. Before descending down the vent, type in DNMONSTERS
     and then drop to the street. Grab the Rocket Launcher from the ledge
     (you all know where this is by now) and then go to the cinema ticket
     window. Stand back (I usually stand in the shadow of the air vent I
     came down) and shoot a rocket through the ticket window (use crosshair
     if needed). This will blow a hole in the side of the wall. Now go
     stand infront of the hole looking into the ticket booth and type
     DNMONSTERS This will turn the monsters BACK ON and the lizard who was
     originally in there will EXPLODE before your very eyes in a glorious
     display of body parts. Its a Kodak moment so keep your finger over the
     F12 key to share it with friends.

   * Edit the user.con file with a text editor, and you'll see how easy it
     is to change weapon strengths, max ammo supplies, and other stuff. A
     warning, though: weapon strengths are universal, so if you change the
     strength of the shotgun, the Pig Cop's will be just as powerful as
     yours.

   * (4/14/96 - from Warren Thiele) - Here is a little trick I know of. My
     friend found it in a DukeMatch, and it really caught me off guard. Go
     in the apartment behind the cinema sign and jump onto the left window
     ledge facing out. Duck down and move forward and back, but don't fall
     off the ledge. If you do it right you'll end up in the corner of the
     arcade beside the Duke Nukem game. Since you can hear your opponent
     hit the elevator in the arcade you can time it so that you can blast
     him with the RGB without him knowing what hit him. I am running Duke
     Nukem 1.1 shareware. I'm not sure if it'll work in other version.

   * (4/14/96 - from Paul Forst) - I was just looking at the "Fun things to
     do" in Duke Nukem and wanted to add one of my own... As far as I know
     I am the first and only person to have found this glitch. What you do,
     is got to any level with any women in it (strippers, cheerleaders,
     etc.) and shrink them (one side note: if you shrink the cheerleaders
     in the boss level - the Stadium - in episode 3, they unshrink bigger
     than before), once they have been shrunk select the freezethrower and
     fire at them. You will usually hear a cry like an alien dying and
     possibly a spurt of blood, but they will not die. Then when they
     unshrink, they will be indestructable. You can fire off 100 RPG's at
     them and they'll still keep on dancing. Also the aliens that always
     appear when you kill one of the girls will not appear if you use this
     technique... There is also another related glitch where you first
     freeze them, then shrink them and then freeze them again. When they
     unshrink they will be indestructable but you WILL be able to freeze
     them again, but this time they will still be dancing while frozen, and
     if you then walk up to them you'll shatter them to pieces. These
     glitches are in the full version, I don't know if they will or will
     not work with the shareware version ... Try it out and enjoy...

   * (5/12/96 - from Ardeo) - I was playing in version 1.3d when I found
     this out by accident. It only works in 1.3d....that I know so far. If
     you press f7 to enter view mode, then press f9 without a quick restore
     spot, then wait a few seconds before hitting return, the view mode
     camera will advance past DUKE into whatever direction he happens to be
     facing. The camera will move it's view back to 3 feet in front of you.
     While it's moving, you have control of where Duke looks, so you can
     use this to look through walls, doors, etc. It only lasts a few
     seconds, but that's all you need to see that your opponent is waiting
     on the other side of the door!

   * (6/18/96 - from Ardeo) - Start a new game, doesn't matter which
     episode/difficulty, then type the God-Mode cheat, quit to the
     title-screen and wait for the demo to load, preferably the one in the
     space-base. What's that? Duke's gone drunk or something?

   * (6/18/96 - from Noel H.) - You can get teenage assualt troopers by
     using the shrinkray on an assault trooper. While he is shrunk, try not
     to squish him or else the trick won't work. Now aim the freezthrower
     at him and wait until he starts to unshrink. The second he starts to
     grow, freeze him. If your timing was right you have a "frozen" teenage
     assault trooper. When he unfreezes, he'll act as a normal assault
     trooper, but he'll be the size of a teenager. These teenage assault
     troopers are a pain in the ass, though.

   * (6/18/96 - from Noel H.) - Don't you wish you could pump gallons and
     gallons of blood out of a dead enemy? Well if you do, here's a simple
     trick that'll make your wish come true. First, kill an enemy but DONT
     blow him up. Next type DNMONSTERS. All the enemies should've
     disappeared. Now type DNMONSTERS again. All the monsters should've
     reappeared. Now aim at the direction of the dead enemy, NOT at the
     body. Now just shoot! I love using the chaingun with this trick.

   * (6/18/96 - from Noel H.) - Here's a trick for all you people who love
     to watch those stupid assault troopers go SPLAT! First of all, go to
     any episode and do the GOD code. Start a new game and pick episode one
     and DAMN I'M GOOD as the difficulty level. Once you get on the street,
     wait until alot of enemies are in the area. Now use your jetpack (the
     one you got using the GOD code) to fly ALL the way until you stop.
     Stay up there until ALL the assualt troopers reach your level. Now
     turn off your jetpack. After you survive the drop, watch the shadows
     of the assault troopers. If a shadow stops moving, watch out because
     you know one of those dumbasses is gonna go SPLAT. And since they
     respawn, you can do this all day!

   * (7/3/96 - from Mike Mittag) - Here's a fun thing for the Mortal Kombat
     freaks: In Setup, define right mouse button as quick-kick. In the
     game, select foot as weapon (Number 1). Push both mouse buttons! (If
     you select other weapons, Duke can shoot through his foot)

   * (7/6/96 - from Koolior) - Shoot the shrink gun at a mirror to get a
     worm's eye view.

   * (7/9/96 - from Roland) - Type in the cash cheats DNCASHMAN, DNKROZ,
     and DNSTUFF. Go to a wide open area (street of e1l1, for example),
     jetpack as high as you can, hit the space bar many, many times and
     throw lots of money. Then turn off the jetpack to rapidly descend. You
     will be showered with bills in a minute or two.

   * (7/21/96) from NForeman) -
        o 2001: on one of the Lunar Apocalypse missions (I don't know
          which) there is a secret passage that will lead you to a giant,
          black monolith emitting a terrible humming noise that can be
          walked through and into a teleporter that sends you someplace (I
          forgot where).
        o The Terminator: in one of the levels on Shrapnel City (Freeway, I
          think), there is an obvious reference to ARnold's first good
          movie. It's a mechanical arm hanging out of a crushing thing. You
          can duck your way into the crushing thing (to get an RPG) when
          Duke says "Terminated." Look down and there is a flattened
          Terminator.
        o Raiders of the Lost Ark: on level 8 of Shrapnel City, there is a
          swimming pool. Jump behind the waterfall nearby and you are
          dropped into a small area like the Indian levels of Episode one.
          There is a handprint on a wall near some palmtrees and a Secret
          Level Button. Hit the handprint and a small enterance appears.
          Walking through the fire, walk forward until you reach a small
          alcove. You know you're there when you see a very small Indiana
          Jones impaled upon a wooden spike on the wall, as Duke says "We
          meet again, Doctor Jones." There is an atomic health on a
          pedastal that, when grabbed, causes the ceiling to come down and
          shake the whole area. Get out or you'll be squished.

(See also: List of Bonus (and Secret) Areas)

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