Who remembers doom??

[Cain]

Be sure to watch the video/powerpoint presentation of the History of Doom, with John Romero:

Latest Update & DOOM Post-Mortem

http://planetromero.com/2012/01/late...om-post-mortem

[Cain]

Post reserved for my DOOM Comments...

[goldenfooler]

I remember it. I sucked at it.

[K PhaNTOM]

Too young to remember.

[Apache Warrior]

I remember it. I also remember my wife warning me not to let my son play it.
The first FPS game I let him play was Wolfenstein.
Apache

[Schultzy]

I remember it. I also remember my wife warning me not to let my son play it.
The first FPS game I let him play was Wolfenstein.
Apache

Because Wolfenstein was so much more PG. :P lol

I remember DooM, and I had a lot of fun with the whole series.

I never did beat DooM 3 though. It... scared me. That, and I had the ATI-darkness issue.

[juneau]

I think I was busy with consoles around this time, even though I had built my first PC and used it for other games. I think I first played Doom nearer the end of the 90's.

[JohnyRico]

My copy of Doom came on a floppy disc.

[majinsnake]

snes days of 1994 - 1995.


many people still play doom over servers / clients.

http://www.skulltag.com/

http://zandronum.com/

[WalkinTarget]

My copy of Doom came on a floppy disc.

Me too. I found it at a PC parts shop/shareware store that was in the mall at the time. It was on an endcap prominently displayed by the front door, so I looked at it, thought it looked like a change of pace from the many flight sims I had been playing, and the rest is history. In the early 90's, about the only games available were flight sims, so an FPS was a new thing entirely.

I ran it on a 486/DX2 50 with 8mb RAM and it ran very well. The atmosphere was what grabbed you. It was dark, it was quiet, but .. you heard .. things .. snarling or screaming off in the distance. And it was also done in 3D, so that you could circle around an imp and see it from behind, an amazingly simple concept that hadn't been done until then (Wolfenstein was more of a 2.5D view).

Quake was a further step forward, and I really got addicted to Quake CTF. But Doom MP on a LAN was what all the cool kids were doing back in the day. I even set one up for the kids to play in the Electronics lab when they weren't doing actual schoolwork. Oh ya, IPX and Netbeui protocols on a Win95 PC, running through a 16 port 10mb switch - we killed that poor thing.

[ImTheeBubbleTea]

I was a bit too young to have played Doom when it came out. There was some Doom game for the N64 that I played a bit... Though I don't think I really got into Doom until Doom 3 came out; but after that I became completely obsessed ;P

I love hearing about the development of the original Doom, even if I heard it a billion times, just because it's so interesting.

[Slaughter]

Oh yeah. One of the first PC games I ever played. I remember playing Doom deathmatch via serial modems (1200 baud) and I particularly loved to telefrag unwitting opponents.

[Duke{CLR}]

This was an amazing game, it's right up there with Wasteland, Descent three and the original Warcraft s games that made me a gamer.

[WalkinTarget]

I need to build a retro box using all of these spare parts lying around for some old school gaming. I have an Epox 8RDA+ board that I'd toss an AGP Nvidia 5900 and a 3dFX Voodoo2 12mb into and load up some games. I still have Quake, Warcraft (DOS version), Unreal Tournament, etc.

It'd be scary to sit down and add up what I've spent on PC parts over 20+ years of gaming.

[JohnyRico]

Then you could do all that fun retro stuff like configuring your IRQ channel.