Ages ago, an overhead view Apple II computer game called Castle Wolfenstein wiped out a mess of Nazis and became a huge hit in the process. Last year, Id Software updated the Nazi-nuking legend as a PC game with a first-person, over-the-barrel perspective called Wolfenstein 3D. It too became a huge hit. Now Id has teamed with Imagineer to bring Wolfenstein 3D to the SNES.

Prediction: though it's changed somewhat from its predecessors, it will be a huge hit, too. Guns, But No Roses It's World War II, and you're the world-famous soldier, B.J. Your accomplishments are legendary, so much so that President Roosevelt has your phone number in his Rolodex -- and he uses it. The vile Staatmeister and his Master State are up to their dirty tricks again. It's your job to break into their fortresses and take them down. You set off on 30 missions as a one-man wrecking crew. You're initially armed only with a pistol and a handful of bullets.

Luckily, machine guns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and a ton of ammunition are spread in abundance throughout the game. Wolfenstein's challenge will make you howl. Of course, the Master State is expecting you, so there are Guards, Elite Guards, Officers, and Mutant Attack Rats lurking everywhere. In later levels, you meet up with -like mutant soldiers that have guns mounted in their chests, chain guns for arms, and knives for hands. It's obvious what comes next: You blast your way through the ranks to find the level exit as quickly as you can. If you take out all the enemies and snatch all the treasures in each level, you earn bonus points toward extra lives. You also earn bonus points for beating the level within a certain time limit and more points for finding secret rooms.

All Shot Up and Nowhere to Go The controls in Wolfenstein are as simple to use as A-B-Start, but they take time to master. B shoots and A opens doors. Start displays a map of what you've seen so far.

Even with this simplicity, the controls are a bit skittish, especially during intense firefights. Until you nail the directionals down, it's tough to swing your gun around quickly or stop on a dime to take a precise shot. You can constantly monitor your health with a percentage display on-screen. Anything less than 100 percent means you've been hit. If you aren't into percentages, you can 'face' your health.

A visual display of Blazkowicz's face starts to look downright nasty, with puffy eyes and bloodied lips when he's hurt. ProTips: • It's easy to get spun around and find yourself covering ground you've already conquered.

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Use the map frequently to analyze your progress. • Learn to use L and R. Running into a room sideways can jet you a valuable jump on certain enemies. • Some levels have more than one exit, which can give you a speed bonus if you get to one quickly.

However, it's usually worth the time to find all secret rooms and treasures, and get rid of all enemies. • When you run into uniform types, take out the dudes in white first, the ones in blue second, and the ones in khaki last. • Map every detail of each level. This will help you grab every point and get out as quickly as possible. • Check every wall for secret passages. Not only will this help your bonus score, but you'll also end up with a good cache of weapons. • The boss levels all have large quantities of first aid and ammo available, usually hidden in secret rooms.

Until you find them and know you can get to them quickly, stay clear of the big, bad boss. • Master Staters hide behind every column.

• Your Auto-Map paints an incomplete picture, so look into every nook and cranny. • Listen to the sounds carefully. Not only will you hear any off-sides threat, but the sound of opening and closing doors in the distance will alert you to approaching enemies, especially aggressive bosses. • Try not to get caught with a door in front of you and behind you. Once the bullets start flying, you may find yourself in crossfire.

The Sights and Sounds of War Outside of the wild action, Wolfenstein 3D has incredible audio accompaniment. Sure, the music is funky and upbeat for a war battle, but this is one of the few games where the sound can really help you -- particularly if you're hooked to a stereo system. For example, Guards shout 'Stop' and 'Halt.' Depending on how far the enemies are from you, the volume of their shouts varies.

Similarly, if something's happening to the left of your character, you'll hear it more in your left speaker. The game's filled with other effects as well, like the snarls of the rats and the reverberating door slams.

It all builds intense realism. Overall, there's great attention to graphic detail. You get a big window on the action, and the screen updates are fast. Also, if you pick up a weapon, Blazkowicz's face puts on this greedy, 'look what I found' sneer.

If you get killed, the screen freezes, then spins to show you who did the final deed. The dramatic graphic drawbacks are the overly pixelated surroundings and character sprites -- it looks like you're fighting giant Lego people in a Lego castle. Even though the graphics are generally very blocky, the scaling of objects is good. Cry 'Wolfenstein!' Wolfenstein 3D is a major blast! It's one of those rare games that are simple in design, easy to control, and a heck of a lot of fun to play.

You get all that and world war, too. Just like the recently released, Wolfenstein 3D is a near-perfect port of a groundbreaking first-person shooter from the glory days of shareware PC gaming. While not as technically impressive as Activision's Doom port, Wolf 3D is arguably just as much fun to play with its central theme of escaping an underground prison and kicking Hitler's ass during World War II. Despite all the joys that come with gunning down Nazis, all is not perfect in the land of GBA Wolfenstein. Like it or not, this is an OLD game, and the play mechanics are archaic by today's standards.

I wish it had a multiplayer mode to link up in, and I also wish it had a simple map to keep me from getting lost all the time. What's more, you can only save at the end of each level (lame, considering you could save anywhere in the PC version).

You'll spend huge periods of time squinting 'til you make it through a stage, which is murder on the eyes. If you can stomach its flaws and antiquity though, Wolf 3D is a fun time and worth at least a rental If you're a fan of the genre. You're probably saying to yourself, 'Oh, no. Not another Wolfenstein.' The latest translation of this title is for the 3DO. It contains the usual complement of first-person thrills you've come to expect.

You are on a mission through Nazi strongholds, and in order to make it out unscathed, you have to shoot every living thing that crosses your path. To aid you, there are health packs and ammunition scattered about. The graphics move smoothly and the audio is good. If you've played Wolfenstein 3D on any of the other formats (except for the butchered Super NES cart), it is more of the same.

• Manufacturer: 1D/Imaginer • # of players: 1 • Difficulty: Moderate • Available: 1st qtr. '94 • Number of Levels: 30 • Theme: Action The PC classic is making its way to the Super NES system: Castle Wolfenstein 3-0! Except, as expected, things will be toned down quite a bit. The basic premise is the same: as super-commando B.J.

Blazkowicz, you are sent behind enemy lines during World War II, into the dreaded title castle. This first-person perspective allows you to walk from room to room - blowing away enemies if need be - all presented in Mode 7! There are six missions in this game, each representing a certain building floor. The levels have end Bosses - tough soldiers that take several hits to kill, and even attack dogs (well, sort of - the big 'N' has requested they be mutant rats instead)! Yet there are several weapons to be found that you can use to help you along the way. The game is compatible with the standard Super NES control pad, or the new mouse. SOME WEAPONS AND OTHER ITEMS TO HELP YOU SURVIVE To cycle through the weapons you are currently carrying, press the SELECT Button.

To use a weapon, press the B Button. GATLIN GUN This is one of the most powerful machine guns in the entire game! Download Mortal Kombat 9 Highly Compressed.

Unfortunately, it uses too much ammunition at a very fast rate! Use it sparingly, or only use it when the situation arises! BAZOOKA This slow-loading weapon packs quite a punch!

You cannot carry very much ammunition for it, but it is almost guaranteed to destroy enemies with one shot! Save it for the Boss characters. KNIFE & PISTOL These are the two 'basic' weapons in the game.

The Knife is your last weapon. You will use it when you run out of ammunition for everything else (or if you select it). The pistol takes a few shots to kill a foe. MISSION 1 Each floor is divided into different sections.

At the end of the last section is a Boss - here it is Hans Grobe who will attack with a machine gun in each hand. Remember to use Buttons X or Y to run while moving: the longer they are held, the faster you will move! The RIGHT and LEFT Buttons also serve a purpose: they allow you to strafe left or right. Press START and the game will pause and show you a map of your progress. FLOOR 1: DRESDEN STRIKE Floor 1 is divided up into three stages, with a tough Boss at the end of Stage 1-3! In addition to the guards, you will also encounter dangerous guard dogs that will rush at you and attack instantly!

At the end of each stage is a white door: to finish the stage, you must have the key to open it. Once inside, go to the switch on the wall and the stage will end! On Stage 3, you must kill the Boss to get the key first, though. FLOOR 2: OPERATION EISENFAUST Some new enemies await you on this floor - most notably the White (1 & 2) and Blue (3) guards! These guys take quite a few hits to get rid of!

Each time you take a hit, the screen will turn a shade of red. Make sure to grab their ammo when they fall - you can use it! 4) Make sure to push against 'suspicious' walls and press the A Button - they could reveal secret passages with items hidden inside. 5) A Blue Guard at the wrong place at the wrong time. 6) Try and get the enemy guards bunched together, then use your Gatling gun to spray fire and do them in!

May 5, 1992 ( 1992-05-05) • MS-DOS • May 5, 1992 • SNES • February 1994 • Atari Jaguar • 1994 • Mac OS • August 3, 1994 • 3DO • September 3, 1995 • Game Boy Advance • April 2002 • Xbox • May 6, 2003 • Linux • August 3, 2007 • iOS • March 25, 2009 • Xbox 360 • June 3, 2009 • PlayStation 3 • June 4, 2009 Mode(s) Wolfenstein 3D is a developed by and published by and. Originally released on May 5, 1992 for, it was inspired by the 1981 video game. In Wolfenstein 3D, the player of spy during as he escapes from the prison Castle Wolfenstein and carries out a series of crucial missions against the Nazis. The player traverses through each of the game's to find an elevator to the next level or kill a, fighting Nazi soldiers, dogs, and other enemies with knives, pistols, and other guns. Wolfenstein 3D was the second major release by id Software, after the series of episodes.

In mid-1991, programmer experimented with making a fast 3D by restricting the gameplay and viewpoint to a single, producing and as prototypes. After a design session prompted the company to shift from the family-friendly Keen to a more violent theme, programmer suggested remaking the 1981 stealth shooter Castle Wolfenstein as a fast-paced action game. He and designer designed the game, built on Carmack's engine, to be fast and violent, unlike other computer games on the market at the time.

Wolfenstein 3D features artwork by and sound effects and music. The game was released through Apogee in two sets of three episodes under the model, in which the first episode is released for free to drive interest in paying for the rest. An additional episode, Spear of Destiny, was released as a stand-alone retail title through FormGen. Wolfenstein 3D was a critical and commercial success, garnering numerous awards and selling over 200,000 copies by the end of 1993.

It is widely regarded as having helped popularize the first-person shooter genre and establishing the standard of fast-paced action and technical prowess for many subsequent games in the genre, as well as showcasing the viability of the shareware publishing model at the time. FormGen developed an additional two episodes for the game, while Apogee released a pack of over 800 fan-created levels. Id Software never returned to the series, but did license the engine to numerous other titles before releasing the source code for free in 1995, and multiple other games in the have been developed by other companies since 2001. A simple rendering similar to the Wolfenstein 3D engine.

The red dot is the player's location. The orange area represents the player's. In October–December 1990, a team of employees from programming studio calling themselves Ideas from the Deep developed the three-part video game, the first game in the series. The group, who worked at Softdisk in developing games for the Gamer's Edge video game subscription service and, was composed of programmers and, designer, artist, and manager Jay Wilbur.

After the release of the game in December through publisher, the team planned to quit Softdisk and start their own company. When their boss, Softdisk owner Al Vekovius, confronted them on both their plans and their use of company resources to develop the game—the team had created it on their work computers, both in the office after hours and by taking the computers to John Carmack's house on the weekends—the team made no secret of their intentions. After a few weeks of negotiation, the team agreed to produce a series of games for Gamer's Edge, one every two months. Ideas from the Deep, now formally established as, used some of these to prototype ideas for their own games. Adrian Carmack used them to push his preferred, dark art style, while John Carmack began to experiment with, which until then was largely the purview of such as (1990). Carmack found that this was largely due to the limitations of of the time, which had difficulty displaying a fast in 3D due to the it needed to calculate.

During 1991, he experimented with limiting the possible surfaces the computer needed to display, creating game levels with walls designed only on a flat grid rather than with arbitrary shapes or angles. He also took the unusual approach of creating the displayed graphics through, in which only the surfaces visible to the player were calculated rather than the entire area surrounding the player. After six weeks of development, Carmack had created a rudimentary 3D that used animated 2D for enemies.

Id Software then used the engine for the April 1991 Softdisk game, in which the player drives a tank through a plane of colored walls and shoots nuclear monsters. In the fall of 1991, after the team—sans Wilbur—had relocated to, and he had largely finished the engine work for, Carmack learned about, a in development. Ultima Underworld was planned to display 3D graphics without Hovertank 's restrictions of flat walls and simple lighting. Deciding that he could add texture mapping without sacrificing the engine's speed or greatly increasing the system requirements as Underworld was doing, Carmack enhanced the engine over six weeks from Hovertank 3D for another Softdisk game, the November 1991. Upon seeing it, of Apogee began to push the team to make a 3D shareware action game.

In 2012 In November 1991, with the second Commander Keen trilogy of episodes nearing completion and their contractual obligations to Softdisk almost finished, id Software sat down to plan out their next major game. Designer Tom Hall, who initially wanted to do a third Keen trilogy, recognized that Carmack's programming focus had shifted from the 2D series to 3D action games. After an initial proposal by Hall of a sci-fi project, 'It's Green and Pissed', Romero suggested a 3D remake of the 1981. The team was interested in the idea, as Romero, Hall, and John Carmack all had fond memories of the original title and felt the maze-like shooter gameplay fit well with Carmack's 3D game engine, while Adrian Carmack was interested in moving away from the child-friendly art style of Keen into something more violent. Encouraged by the reception to his idea, Romero expounded on it by proposing a 'loud' and 'cool' fast action game where the player could shoot soldiers before dragging and looting their bodies.

The core of the gameplay would be fast and simple, for Romero believed that due to the novelty of a 3D game and control scheme, players would not be receptive to more complicated, slow gameplay. He felt the game would occupy a unique place in the industry, which was then dominated by slower simulation and strategy games. Adrian and John Carmack were excited by the prospect, while Hall felt that it was enjoyable enough, and that since he was the company's designer that they could return to his ideas at a later date. Initially the team believed that they would be unable to use the Wolfenstein name due to trademark issues, and came up with multiple possible titles.

They contacted Castle Wolfenstein developer, but learned that and successor companies no longer existed and the trademark had lapsed, leaving them the option to use the name Wolfenstein 3D. The game concept met with immediate approval from Scott Miller of Apogee, who considered id Software his star developer, and he paid id a US$100,000 advance on the project. Mark Rein, who had been brought on a few months prior as id's probationary president, also sold the idea of doing a retail Wolfenstein project to, which had published id's December 1991, overcoming the publisher's concerns over Wolfenstein 's proposed content. This put id in the unique position of selling simultaneously to the shareware and retail markets. In 2006 Romero and Hall designed the gameplay and aesthetics; Romero wanted the goal to be 'to mow down Nazis', with the suspense of storming a Nazi bunker full of soldiers and Hitler himself, as well as dogs, blood 'like you never see in games', and straightforward, lethal weapons. Hall designed the levels while also adding collectible objects in the form of treasure and food for health items.

Carmack added a few features to the Wolfenstein 3D engine from Catacomb 3-D, including support for doors and decorative non-wall objects, but primarily focused on making the game run smoother and faster with higher-resolution graphics. The graphics for the game were planned to be in 16 color, but were changed to 256 color four months before release. Romero in turn worked on building a game with the engine, removing elements of the initial design, like looting enemy bodies, that he felt interrupted the flow of fast gameplay. The level design, by Romero and Hall, due to the grid-based level design, took some inspiration from, and paid homage with a hidden Pac-Man level.

The team ensured that the presentation of the game created the atmosphere that they wanted, adding violent animations by Adrian Carmack for enemies being shot and music and sound effects by Keen composer to make the guns sound exciting. As development continued, id Software hired their former Softdisk liaison as an assistant artist, and moved the company out to, near where Apogee was located. Scott Miller of Apogee was pleased to have his star developers nearby, and agreed to not only increase their rate to 50 percent, but have Apogee create their next game for Softdisk, ScubaVenture, so that id could focus on Wolfenstein. The game was intended to be released using Apogee's shareware model of splitting it into three episodes and releasing the first for free, with ten levels per episode. The level maps were designed in 2D using a custom-made program called Tile Editor (TEd), which had been used for the entire Keen series as well as several other games. Upon finding out that the team was able to create a level in a single day using the program, Miller convinced them to instead develop six episodes, which could be sold in different-sized packs.

Around the same time, the team changed members and structure: id fired probationary president Mark Rein and brought back Jay Wilbur, who had stayed in Shreveport, to be both their CEO and business team; Bobby Prince moved into the office temporarily to record sound effects, while Adrian Carmack moved out of the office to get away from the noise. As the game neared completion, FormGen contacted id with concerns over its violence and shock content. In response, id increased these aspects; Adrian Carmack added skeletons, corpses, and bloody wall details, and Hall and Romero added screams and cries in German, along with a Death Cam that would show a replay of the death of the final boss of an episode. The team also added ', the anthem of the, to the opening screen. John Carmack, meanwhile, added in walls that moved when triggered to hide secret areas, a feature that Hall had been pushing for months but which Carmack had objected to for technical reasons.

Hall also added in cheat codes, and wrote a back story for the game. In the early morning of May 5, 1992, the first episode of the shareware game was completed and uploaded by Apogee and id to. The other episodes were completed a few weeks later. The total development time had been around half a year, with a cost of around US$25,000 to cover the team's rent and US$750 per month salaries. Release [ ] The first episode was released as shareware for free distribution by Apogee and the whole original trilogy of episodes made available for purchase on May 5 as Wolfenstein 3D, though the purchased episodes were not actually shipped to customers until a few weeks later. The second trilogy that Miller had convinced id to create was released soon after as an add-on pack titled The Nocturnal Missions. Players were able to buy each trilogy separately or as a single game.

In 1993 Apogee also published the Wolfenstein 3D Super Upgrades pack, which included 815 fan-made levels called 'WolfMaster', along with a map editor titled 'MapEdit' and a random level generator named 'Wolf Creator'. A retail Wolfenstein episode double the length of the Apogee episodes, Spear of Destiny, was released through FormGen on September 18, 1992.

FormGen later published two mission packs titled 'Return to Danger' and 'Ultimate Challenge', each the same length as Spear of Destiny, in May 1994, and later that year published Spear of Destiny and the two mission packs together as the Spear of Destiny Super CD Package. Id released the original six Apogee episodes as a retail title through in 1993 and produced a collection of both the Apogee and FormGen episodes released through in 1998. There were two intended promotions associated with the original Apogee release, both of which were cancelled. A pushable wall maze led to a sign reading 'Call Apogee and say '; it was intended that the first person to find the sign and carry out its instructions would win a prize, but the quick creation of level editors and programs for the game soon after release led id and Apogee to give up on the idea.

Additionally, after completing an episode the player is given a three-letter code in addition to their total score and time. This code was intended to be a verification code as part of a high-score contest, but the sudden prevalence of editor programs resulted in the cancellation of the contest without ever being formally announced. Since its initial release, Wolfenstein 3D has been ported to numerous other platforms. These include the (1994), (1994), (1994), (1994), (1995), (1998), and (1998). The Super NES and Jaguar ports were developed by id, while the rest were produced by other companies. Later releases include the (2002),,, and an version programmed by Carmack himself (2009). These ports' sound, graphics, and levels sometimes differ from the original—the Super NES version notably replaced the blood with sweat, dogs with rats, and removed all Nazi references, although the core gameplay and aesthetic are retained.

Many of the ports include only the Apogee episodes, but the iOS port includes Spear of Destiny, and a 2007 release for PC, OS X, and Linux includes all of the FormGen episodes., whose parent company bought id Software in 2009, celebrated the 20th anniversary of Wolfenstein 3D 's release by producing a free-to-play version of the game in 2012. Reception [ ] Id had no clear expectations for Wolfenstein 's commercial reception, but hoped that it would make around US$60,000 in its first month; the first royalty check from Apogee was instead for US$100,000. Quoted a shareware distributor as saying Wolfenstein 3D was the top shareware seller of 1992. By the end of 1993, sales of the Apogee episodes of Wolfenstein 3D as well as Spear of Destiny had reached over 100,000 units each, with the Apogee game still selling strongly by the end of the year as its reach spread without newer retail titles to compete with it for shelf space. By mid-1994 150,000 shareware copies were registered and id sold another 150,000 retail copies as Spear of Destiny; the company estimated that one million shareware copies were distributed worldwide. Over 20 percent of its sales were from outside of the US, despite the lack of any marketing or non-English description and despite the game being due to its inclusion of Nazi symbols. The Apogee episodes' sales vastly exceeded the shareware game sales record set by the developer's earlier Commander Keen series and provided id with a much higher profit margin than the sales of its retail counterpart; where Commander Keen games were bringing Apogee aroun $10,000 a month, Wolfenstein 3D brought in $200,000 per month.

Wolfenstein 3D won the 1993 'Best Action/Arcade Game' award at the and a from the for Best Action/Arcade Game. It was the first shareware title to win a Codie, and id (with six employees) became the smallest company to ever receive the award. Wolfenstein 3D was noted as one of the top games of the year at the 1993, was named by as the Best Action Game and Most Innovative Game of 1992 and by as the Best Arcade/Action Game, and named it the magazine's Action Game of the Year in 1993. Wolfenstein 3D was well received by reviewers upon its release. Chris Lombardi of praised the 'sparse [but] gorgeous', 'frighteningly realistic', and 'extremely violent' graphics, as well as the 'immersive' sound and music. Noting the violence, he warned 'those sensitive to such things to stay home'.

Lombardi concluded that Wolfenstein 3D, alongside Ultima Underworld released two months prior, was 'the first game technologically capable of creating a sufficient element of disbelief–suspension to emotionally immerse the player in a threatening environment', stating that they knew of no other game that could 'evoke such intense psychological responses from its players'. Wolfenstein twice received 5 out of 5 stars in in 1993; Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser termed it 'definitely one of the best arcade games ever created for PC', highly praised the graphics and sound, and said that the 'fast-paced action' could keep players enthralled for weeks if they were not concerned about the violence., in the first 'Eye of the Monitor' column, claimed that 'there is nothing else quite like Wolfenstein' and that it had 'evolved almost beyond recognition' from the original 1981 game. He enthusiastically praised the speed and gameplay, calling it 'a fun game with lots of action' and 'a fun, fairly mindless romp', though he did note that at higher difficulty settings or later levels it became extremely hard.

The Spear of Destiny retail episode was also rated highly by Computer Gaming World 's Bryan A. Walker, who praised the added enemy types, though he noted that it was essentially the same game as the shareware episodes. The early ports of the game also received high reviews, though their sales have been described as 'dismal'. The four reviewers of called the Super NES version a good conversion that retained the good music, huge levels, and overall fun of the original game and dismissed the censoring in the version as inconsequential. The magazine rated the Jaguar version similarly, commenting that the graphics and audio were superior to other versions of the game, but criticizing the faster movement of the player character as making it less fun to play.

A review of the Jaguar port was highly complimentary, saying Wolfenstein 3D 'set a new standard for PC gaming' and that the Jaguar version was the best to date, and better than the original due to its increased graphics and sound capabilities. Major Mike of GamePro commended the 3DO version's complete absence of, fast scaling, 'rousing' music, and high quality sound effects, but criticized the controls as overly sensitive. He concluded that the game, then over three years old, 'still packs a punch as a first-person shooter'. Wolfenstein 3D won GamePro 's Best 3DO Game of 1995 award, beating the acclaimed and.

Maximum, on the other hand, while stating that the 3DO port was better than the original and as good as the Jaguar version, felt that it was so aged compared to recent releases like and the PlayStation version of that a new port was pointless, with the game now 'somewhat tiresome and very, very repetitive'. A reviewer for asserted that Wolfenstein 3D was 'still as as it ever was' but essentially agreed with Maximum, contending that anyone interested in first-person shooters would have either already played it on another platform or 'moved on' to more advanced games in the genre. A more modern review by Daemon Hatfield of gave the PlayStation Network release of the game a warm reception, saying that while it was 'dated and flawed', it was 'required playing for any first-person shooter fan'. Legacy [ ] Wolfenstein 3D has been called the 'grandfather of 3D shooters', specifically first-person shooters, because it established the fast-paced action and technical prowess commonly expected in the genre and greatly increased the genre's popularity. Although some prior computer shooting-based games existed, they were generally, while Wolfenstein 3D helped move the market towards first-person shooters. It has also been attributed with confirming shareware distribution as a serious and profitable business strategy at the time; VideoGames & Computer Entertainment claimed in September 1992 that the game 'justified the existence of shareware', and in July 1993 Computer Gaming World claimed that it 'almost single-handedly' demonstrated the viability of shareware as a method of publishing, leading to a wave of other shareware first-person shooters.

The game's high revenue compared to prior, smaller 2D titles led Apogee as well as others in the shareware games industry to move towards larger, 3D titles built by larger development teams. During development, id approached, then one of the biggest companies in the industry and employer of several of their idols, with the goal of seeing if they could make a deal with the company. After viewing Commander Keen and an early version of Wolfenstein 3D, CEO offered to buy id Software for US$2.5 million and turn it into an in-house development studio. The team was excited by the deal, but had felt there was a large culture clash between the two companies during their visit to Sierra and were hesitant to accept; Romero proposed asking for US$100,000 in cash up front as part of the deal rather than solely accepting payment in Sierra stock as a measure of Williams's seriousness. Williams refused, which id interpreted to mean that Williams did not truly recognize the potential of Wolfenstein 3D and the company, and the deal fell through, causing id to decide to remain an independent company for the foreseeable future.

By the end of 1993 just before the release of their next game, Doom, the success of Wolfenstein 3D led id to receive multiple calls every month from investment companies looking to make id a publicly-traded company, which were all turned down. After the game's release, id Software licensed the engine to other developers, like the Commander Keen engine before it, as part of a series of engine licensing deals that id has made throughout its history; games using the Wolfenstein 3D engine or derivatives of it include, the games and, as well as.

Apogee intended to produce an expansion pack in 1993 titled Rise of the Triad: Wolfenstein 3D Part II, designed by Tom Hall using the Wolfenstein 3D engine, but during development the game was changed into a stand-alone title with an enhanced engine,. Additionally, Softdisk produced Catacomb Abyss using the prototype Wolfenstein 3D engine from Catacomb 3-D as part of the trilogy of sequels.

Although Wolfenstein 3D was not designed to be editable or modified, players developed character and level editors to create original alterations to the game's content. John Carmack and Romero, who had played numerous mods of other games, were delighted, and overrode any concerns about copyright issues by the others. The modding efforts of Wolfenstein players led id Software to explicitly design later titles like Doom and to be easily modifiable by players, even including the map editing tools id Software used with the games.

The source code for the original Wolfenstein 3D engine was released by id in 1995; when making the 2009 iOS port, Carmack used some of the enhancements to the engine made by fans after its release. The game's technical achievements also led to numerous imitators such as,,, and, among others. Although id Software did not develop another Wolfenstein game, as their development focus shifted to Doom shortly after release, and has never returned to the series, multiple Wolfenstein titles have been produced by other companies, sometimes using game engines developed by id. The first of these newer Wolfenstein games was in 2001, a of the series, and the latest is the 2017. One of these games, (2014), featured an where players could play through the first level of Wolfenstein 3D. Has a similar easter egg wherein you can play Wolfenstein 3-D aboard a Nazi submarine.

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