Nu Wolfenstein: The New Order in de winkels ligt en de recensie er van één deze dagen hier op Eigenwereld.nl te vinden is, komt de website Uproxx met deze vijftien feiten aanzetten, dingen zoals:

2) The makers of Wolfenstein 3D had nothing to do with the 80s games. Speaking of those 80s Wolfenstein games, the makers of Wolfenstein 3D had absolutely nothing to do with them. In fact, Id kinda, sorta stole the Wolfenstein name from the makers of the original games.

A small company called Muse Software (which went belly-up in 1987) made the original stealthy Wolfenstein games. Most of the guys at Id were fans of those games, and so they decided to do a "homage" to Castle Wolfenstein. During development they considered all sorts of fairly ridiculous names for the game like The Fourth Reich, Adolph's Bane, Luger's Run and Castle Hasselhoff until someone discovered that the Wolfenstein copyright has lapsed when Muse croaked, so what the hell, they just went with Wolfenstein. The story used to be that Id got the blessing of Castle Wolfenstein creator Silas Warner before naming their game, but according to more recent accounts by John Carmack, Id only approached Warner and got his thumbs up well after the game was finished and released.