Quake II Magazine Archive: id Software – Quake II

"Our Chaos Theory: fire a BFG in 1997 and you get CHAOS in 2021… The reason Quake and Quake II get more coverage than other games is simply because of the way in which gamers embrace playing them. No other games have been mutated in so many ways as Quake and Quake II have. So if you're sick of hearing the word Quake — bad luck. You'll be hearing a lot more of it in the future."

Blood Culture: Quake II Evolved, by Freddy Hajas — Brazil

"Tudo isso me ajudou a idealizar Blood Culture, desde minha experiência com jogos e em multiplayer em LAN, minha carreira como desenvolvedor, e meus anos que passei no [NER] e foram fundamentais para a criação de um Clan no Brasil, que é algo muito mais complicado do que lá fora devido a diversos fatores econômicos, de postura e de edução."

1997: Manhattan Memorial Marathon Photos, by David crt Wright — crt’s M3 Pictures

"M3: Manhattan Memorial (day) Marathon. m3 was a quake LAN party in NYC, May 23-May 26, 1997. m3 was free, and was held at Pseudo Online (home of quakecast). although m3 was byoc, many quakers graciously left their computers on, explicitly allowing those without computers to play quake. m3 was sponsored by the cyberweb cafe, pseudo online, and planetquake."