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Dosser
Way too much free time
Joined: 02 Jan 2005
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Location: BEHIND YOU
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 Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:25 am
Post subject: Wolfenstein 3D : Aardwolf |
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Has anyone else ever got this?
Years ago I remember my dad playing Wolfenstein all the time. He used to always try to finish every level with 100% treasure, secrets and enemies.
Once he opened a secret door which only yielded a single 'tile' room. If he pushed one of the walls, he got another small room. This went on for hours, opening hundreds of walls. There was occasionally a big room, with a life in it, and of course eventually he reached a bizarre red sign saying 'Call apogee: aardwolf' and a phone number.
He never bothered to call it, and eventually gave up opening all the rooms (seriously, he was pushing walls for hours). Eventually he finished the level (and he only had about 3% of the secret rooms: probably a good thing he didn't keep trying to get 100%). He was never able to get access to this labrinth again, no matter how much he tried.
Anyway, did anyone else ever find this sign? I'm just curious: it would be great if I could work out how to replicate this. |
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emmzee
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Joined: 14 Sep 2002
Posts: 1886
Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:05 am
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The mighty Google search reveals all:
http://www.mac-archive.com/wolfenstein/facts.html (near the bottom)
| Quote: | There is a sprite in the game of a sign saying, "Call Apogee and say Aardwolf." Here is an explanation by Apogee's Joe Siegler from the Apogee FAQ:
"Call Apogee and say Aardwolf." It's a sign that to this day is something that I get asked about a lot. This is a sign that appears on a wall in a particularly nasty maze in Episode 2 Level 8 of Wolfenstein 3D. The sign was to be the goal in a contest Apogee was going to have, but almost immediately after the game's release, a large amount of cheat and mapping programs were released. With these programs running around, we felt that it would have been unfair to have the contest and award a prize. The sign was still left in the game, but in hindsight, probably should have been taken out. To this day, Apogee gets letters and phone calls and asking what Aardwolf is, frequently with the question, "Has anyone seen this yet?"
Also, in a somewhat related issue, letters were shown after the highest score in the score table in some revisions of the game. These letters were to be part of another contest that got scrapped before it got started, where we were going to have people call in with their scores and tell us the code; we'd then be able to verify their score. However, with the cheat programs out there this got scrapped too.
Basically, "Aardwolf" and the letters mean nothing now. Also note that if you found the Aardwolf sign in the game (without cheating), there's a VERY strong chance that you're stuck in there. The only way out may be to restart, or load a saved game from before you went into that maze. |
Interesting story ... never knew about that sign!  So, who wants to try calling Apogee (aka 3D Realms)?  |
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Gamer_V
Gaming Demi-god
Joined: 03 Mar 2005
Posts: 1114
Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:22 pm
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| Wow... Lots of secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages in secret passages... that's lol... but it gives me an headache... |
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