Doom turns 20 today

[Elijah Newton]

Gotta celebrate a scrappy, obscure lil' indie title - 20 years ago, December 10, 1993, Doom was released. Let's break out the party hats and streamers!

Whoo-hoo! Whee! ?

Yay? ( anyone else? Just me? )

 

[FinalDream]

Woo! Break out the LAN cables and party like it's 1993!

 

[Doom972]

Doom is great. I don't play it as much as I used to but I still return to it every once in a while. I don't think I would be a gamer today without the way it reshaped the gaming industry.

 

[kilenem]

I thought it was older then that

 

[Evonisia]

20 years already? Wow... how shooters have changed.

Just a shame that Doom 3 was 2004 and Doom 4 wasn't this year =/

 

[Exhuminator]

I remember playing Doom in 1993, or at least, the shareware version off a floppy disk. It was a revelatory experience from a gameplay perspective, and a sad one from a "time to buy a new computer" perspective.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

This topic makes me feel old.

As a side note, did anyone else read the four Doom novels? A few years back I stumbled upon them in an airport book store while I was waiting for a delayed flight. For video game novels they were actually pretty decent.

 

[DazZ.]

I replayed it this year with the Brutal Doom mod. Blasted through all episodes and Doom 2, and stopped playing my other modern games because it was so much fun.

I loved Doom, but never owned the full version. I did however play a shit ton of Wolfenstein growing up, and if anyone knows about a Wolfenstein mod or port to the Doom engine I would love to know.

 

[Sixcess]

Happy Birthday, Doom. There are other more sophisticated FPSs (like, almost all of them) but Doom still plays better than any other shooter I know of. It's a run n' gun legend and there'll never be another game that does what it does better.

 

[antidonkey]

Way to make me feel old Doom. I was roughly 6 months away from graduating high school when this game came out. Many a night was spent at a friend's house playing via lan. My 486SX 25 being by far the crappiest of the machines there. Ahhhh....memories.

 

[Artaneius]

Doom, probably my very first FPS. The memories will always be there.

 

[AD-Stu]

Was that really 20 years ago?!? Great, now I feel really old!

Happy birthday Doom I have many fond memories of you back in the day.

 

[Liv's Runaway Snail]

Wow I never realized Doom came out 20 days before I was born. Happy birthday Doom! ;k

 

[Signa]

Man, I love me some Doom. After all these years, and the advancements that have come to the FPS genre, Doom still blows most games out of the water. I call it a casual shooter now, but it's far, far better than any other casual shooter that is hot on the market right now or in the last decade.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

I never actually played Doom itself, but I did play a couple of its clones (namely Hexen and Blood) which I enjoyed back in the day. Pretty solid stuff for its time.

 

[Johnny Impact]

I remember Doom 2 coming on a whole bunch of those 3 1/2" floppies. It took 30 whole megs of hard drive, which at the time was about 30% of my available space. Funny how fast things change.

I feel so old. I think my dentures need cleaning.

 

[Poppy JR.]

This topic makes me feel old.

As a side note, did anyone else read the four Doom novels? A few years back I stumbled upon them in an airport book store while I was waiting for a delayed flight. For video game novels they were actually pretty decent.

I actually did. They were pretty strange, to say the least.

 

[MrBaskerville]

Man, I love me some Doom. After all these years, and the advancements that have come to the FPS genre, Doom still blows most games out of the water. I call it a casual shooter now, but it's far, far better than any other casual shooter that is hot on the market right now or in the last decade.

How is it casual? It demands more skill from the player than most other singleplayer games in the genre^^. Especially if you play Plutonia, that games is gruesome!

I miss games like Doom, i still hope that one day, someone manages to make spmething similar, the fps genre needs to be revived.

 

[gorfias]

Way to make me feel old Doom. I was roughly 6 months away from graduating high school when this game came out. Many a night was spent at a friend's house playing via lan. My 486SX 25 being by far the crappiest of the machines there. Ahhhh....memories.

I spent $100 upgrading my 486SX25 from 4 Meg of RAM to 8 with used RAM. I wonder if "Leading Edge" is even a thing anymore.

I think the 1x CD ROM and sound card were another $180. I was so happy to get it. Doom and Doom 2 played great on it.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

This calls for some music.


And now on some floppy drives!

Spoiler: Would you believe there are people still making mods for this game?