I was thinking it would be neat to bring Quake 1 or Doom 1 even back to the publics attention. By this I mean, kids today, sitting in their computer labs, who have never heard of these classic games but play Halo or Call of Duty every day.
The idea here is to modify the Quake 1 source to run as a 32-bit program as painlessly as possible from a usb disk, cd, or as a program on the web so that people would be able to run the game as discrete as possible.
The goal of this would be to generate a kind of underground hype about this golden oldie and bring back good ol' fashioned gibbing to the "fresh meat"
A central hub would be needed to keep the players together in one place. I was thinking something similar to the web interface that Quake Live provides. I can't discuss that much due to the NDA but basically just have a place to list servers, provide a place for people to talk shit and arrange matches, and list links to the game forum such as this where people would go to post when they're not playing on the game.
I'd just like to hear thoughts on this idea. Good? Bad? Let me have it.
