Comments on: Corridor 7 (PC)

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 07:46:23 +0000

Hello Filipe! Thank you for your comment. Apologies it took me so long to finally read and reply. Les Bird was an absolute joy to interview! Funny… recently late late at night I was randomly looking up Corridor 7 retrospective videos on YouTube. Didn’t find too many but watched a few reviews. Fun callback to my childhood during the mid ’90s and the peak of the Doom clone era. Fun times!

By: Filipe

Filipe — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 01:43:26 +0000

Loved the interview. Les Bird is such a nice guy, always replied my e-mails. Still hoping that he eventually finds the long lost source code. Corridor 7 and Operation Body count do need modern source ports and their reverse engineering attempts are moving too slow.

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 07:53:56 +0000

Thank you Kane for sharing that info. I’ll take a look!

By: Kane

Kane — Sat, 22 May 2021 11:48:08 +0000

I want to note for the blogger that Corridor 7 and Operation Body Count are now on sale on GOG.com, I even let Les know about it.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:07:39 +0000

Hey Green,
I couldn’t agree more. Corridor 7 to me sort of typifies that classic early-mid ’90s era where Wolfenstein and Doom clones were being pumped out left and right. As you said, it’s a bit clunky and unpolished, but there is some heart in the effort and it’s something of a guilty pleasure for me for sure. It was an honor for me to be able to conduct a Q&A with Les Bird, the programmer of Corridor 7. His insights took me back to a precious bygone era. It’s always fun to hear from the people responsible for some of our childhood games!

Although I didn’t list a final review score in my review, I’d rate Corridor 7 somewhere between a 6 and 7, depending on my mood. I think that’s a fair score for a somewhat competent game that was hampered by its fair share of flaws but (as you said) is still fun regardless.

By: Green

Green — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 05:36:37 +0000

This was a really great write up and it was interesting hearing from one of the guys from Capstone during that period when they were trying hard to break into the growing FPS scene. Thanks for putting it together.

Personally the Blake Stone games are my sci-fi Wolf 3D of choice but I think people often give Corridor 7 a harder time than it deserves. It’s a little clunky and unpolished but it’s well ahead of many other Wolf 3D and Doom clones of its day, including its own followup Operation Body Count as discussed here. It’s easily Capstone’s best FPS effort which I know isn’t saying much.

As someone with a lot of warm, fuzzy feelings for this period of gaming I really like Corridor 7. It’s not a masterpiece but it’s fun.