John Carmack - one of the Id software founders - has shown interest into the possibility to create a special Quake-Arena version for the Nintendo DS. He was inspired by playing Metroid Prime Hunters - which is quite a good fps on the Nintendo DS btw! - read more.

Carmack made this statement on the special, QuakeCon conference organized by Id Software. QuakeCon is actually quite a nice example of the very popular CamelCase typesetting by the way. John said that he already immersed himself and got himself acquainted with the techniques necessary for the popular hand-held console. In fact he went as far as to spend the bigger part of his last holiday with a special Nintendo-DS developers-kit and he was very impressed with the multi-player functionality on Metroid Prime Hunters. This inspired him to come up with the idea to develop a multi player Quake version for the Nintendo DS. This new Quake-version is planned to be comprised of a Quake-Arena-theme and deathmatch-Doom 2 like game-play. Graphics-wise the game will be '2 1/2 D', according to John. I am not sure what he means by this - perhaps using the same type of flat sprites as the enemies that we became familiar with in the Doom 1 and 2 series?

Source: Pro G