The Game Doctor

[The Game Doctor has been a legend in the electronic gaming industry since he debuted in the world's first video/computer game publication, "Electronic Games" in 1981. He has answered software-related questions in more than a dozen magazines and gaming sites. As a long-time fan of POSTAL, he has made periodic pilgrimages to the gopostal.com site and now returns to answer questions for The Urinal. Doctor, your patients await… The Gimp]

Ah, an issue devoted to the fair sex, it's certainly about time. With the incredibly hot new Postal Babe photo section and an all-new POSTAL-clad Babe (okay, there's not a lot of "clad" going on, but I don't expect to hear any complaints) photographed personally by Vince Desi, this is definitely the most POSTAL-pure Postal Babe shoot (complete with shovel) we've featured yet. The Gimp then devoted much of "Postal Nation" to the Crazy 88s of the online POSTAL2 universe, the Bitches With Attitude. Thus, it appears to be ladies' month here in The Urinal .

This made me think about a component of the Game Doctor mythos that fans are always curious about: the various Game Nurses who have assisted me over the course of nearly a quarter century in practice.

It all started with the creation of The Game Doctor as someone who would write the "Q&A" column in the original Electronic Games magazine back in 1981. Since Arnie Katz and I always shared a secretary, it fell to that gallery of hard-working females to track the mail and perform whatever type of file cabinet research a specific question might require.

Anyway, since this is the "Babes & Bitches" issue of The Urinal, it occurs to me that I recently came across a photo of one of my all-time favorite Game Nurses while I was writing my book, "Confessions of The Game Doctor" (available in November from rolentapress.com).

She's hot, she's wearing a bikini and she's sprawled languidly on a giant chess board, scrutinizing the many possible moves by which she might escape her opponent's trap. So to sum it up, yes, the Game Nurses have all been real and Game Nurse Rachael is a certified babe. Enjoy.

Now before we forget what we're doing here, we DO have a question. It isn't as good as a picture of a half-naked Nurse Rachael, but while I have many pictures of the Game Nurses "taking care of business", most of these ladies tend to use words like "lawsuit" and phrases like "I'll hire a hitman, you bastard!" when I request permission to use those photos.

Okay, let's do some Q&A, just for fun…

Q: Hi, I have a question about the first picture called "Dude Entourage" in your article "The REAL Secret Origin of The Dude". It looks to me as if this picture was created with the 3D program POSER since it bears some of the ' trademarks' of this figure-creating program: the figures in the scene, detailed posing, even the standard gray background ...

Could you tell me if my assumption is right or not?  Or direct me to the person who knows the answer?

Kind Regards,

 JL Godeau

A: I can indeed direct you to the man who knows, the Postalmeister his-self, "Wicked" Steve Wik is in da house to resolve JL's poser of a question:

"Actually, our art director Josh Leichliter modeled and textured those characters from scratch using 3D Studio Max. He'd be really offended if someone accused him of using Poser models because all our content is lovingly hand crafted by starving artisans! We don't buy models or use Poser for anything. But, rather than kill you, we'll take it as a compliment that our characters look so good you can't believe we built them ourselves. :)"

For answers to the most Frequently Asked Questions, check out the official GoPostal.com site. But send any new questions regarding RWS, the POSTAL franchise and anything else that occurs to you to: GameDoctorKunkel@gopostal.com.