Couple of days late, but happy 20th birthday Doom

[Texashiker]

Doom was 20 years old on December 10th.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)

Lets take a few minutes and reflect how Doom changed, or defined or ideas about pc games.

Up until I played Doom I had been playing command & Conquer. Doom changed my life, and my entire outlook on video games.

 

[lozina]

Damn that makes me feel old.

I was playing Doom in high school.

 

[Thump553]

Really makes me feel old, as I played computer games for years before Doom came out. I distincting remember Doom as one of those newfangled games that I didn't really care for (fps).

<---still misses the golden age of text adventures, when imagination and story telling were paramount.

 

[Wardawg1001]

I forgot to get a gift :/

 

[Texashiker]

Damn that makes me feel old.

I was playing Doom in high school.

20 years ago I would have been 25 years old.

 

[zinfamous]

20 years ago I would have been 25 years old.

:hmm:


but I'm with thump--it was "neat" but like Wolfenstein, one of those newish things that didn't appeal to me. still doesn't.

 

[Dahak]

I remember our computer teacher giving us a hands on lab where we have to network computers together and run doom.

 

[quakeworld]

Happy 20th Doom! from you quake came!

 

[WiseUp216]

Anyone who hasn't read Masters of Doom should check it out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom

 

[mmntech]

Doom is the daddy of the modern FPS, for better or worse. The game was damn impressive when it first came out. Especially the first time you got the BFG9000 and became god.

I had it for Mac back in the day. Was glad to find an OS X x86 emulator designed specifically to run it. It really is funny how much controversy the game generated as it is pretty tame.

 

[Chime]

My first computer was a Power Mac 6100 running Mac OS9 with a 60mhz PowerPC and 16MB of RAM. I could only play Doom in low res, and I only had the shareware version, but my god did I play the shit out of it. Upgrading a couple years later to Windows 98 and a 400mhz Celeron blew me away.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Doom is the daddy of the modern FPS, for better or worse. The game was damn impressive when it first came out. Especially the first time you got the BFG9000 and became god.

The big gun - Doom comic book!
http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/

Doom was the first game I played with user-created levels and mods, like Simpsons Doom and Aliens Doom. Good times.

 

[BSim500]

Happy Birthday Doom indeed. To anyone unaware and who still has the original WAD files, you can download the OpenGL DoomsDay Engine from here and play in glorious anti-aliased widescreen @ 1920x1080. Works with Heretic & Hexen too (Doom engine games). Better textures packs available too somewhere. Happy memories grinding the school network to a halt with this... :biggrin:

 

[crownjules]

Ah I still remember first discovering Doom. A friend down the street got the shareware disk. I remember going over his house to play, which I was more than happy to do since his older sister was super hot.