1. Games had a longer staying power back in the 90s. You could play certain games years later and still be blown away 2. A lot of people in the 90s up until the early 2000s who werent tech savvy had a guy whod come over to setup the computer initially and maybe teach basic functions on how to use the computer. 3. The 90s gaming scene definitely has a "you had to be there" vibe. Explaining demos today and how a demos could be super unique from the original game to the point that it had levels that werent available on the main game or just including the first level (THPS 1 and fur fighters demo was a good example)
Doom 1993 regularly goes on sale 3-4 times a year for $1-2, and is available on all gaming platforms. If you have not everyone should try it at least once in their life. It’s one of the must-play games honestly.
I remember getting a disk of Chex quest with a box of Chex as a kid. We didn't have a computer until like several years later. When I finally did play it, it was insane. That put me down the doom rabbit hole and I went through doom 1 & 2, heretic, marathon, a huge quake phase, and finally halo. now I work at Bungie working on marathon :')
Dude, I remember playing these games (Doom, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem) on my class computers back in 94 or 95. I just completed DooM 64 (Switch) yesterday and started the lost levels tonight. Didn't even realize it was the 30th anniversay (I feel old af now). 2016 is probably my fav in the series, now. It just hit so damn hard when it launched. Amazing music. Amazing graphics. Just arena shooting insanity. Eternal was alright, but a steeper learning curve. I seriously hope the next iteration ramps it up even more!
Doom 2016 dropped at the perfect time. The industry was swamped with other (inferior) shooters that were so full of bloat and other bullshit. D2016 "righted the ship" and brought us an amazing modern reincarnation of the game that started it all. I really enjoyed the sequel, too. But like you I'm excited to see what the next instalment provides.
Sorry kids, but Duum 2016 was just insultingly terrible. Literally dumbed down "cinematic" console shooter with RPG elements. Zero exploration, tiny bullet sponge bosses, Super mario platforking, and that idiotic GK system... Terrible MP and zero modding tools to boot. That Bethesda crap ruined the entire IP for all eternity.
Great video! I was 23 when Doom came out, and we played the heck out of it, Wolfenstein, Heretic, Hexen, Quake and so on. We had first person games before, even back on my Commodore 64, but none were quite like Doom. Just finished Sigil 2 for the anniversary!
DOOM will always be my favorite game. I remember playing it for the first time on my older brother's PC. I have it on every system I have. Oh, and the soundtrack is truly the best! It truly got me into paying more attention to game's soundtracks more! I am going to a friend's LAN party this weekend. DOOM and Quake will be the games we play the most just like back in the day!
My first experiences with Doom date back to around 1996, similar to your timeframe. Watching my dad and uncle play the game, because being 6 years old I wasn't allowed to play. I remember my mom not wanting me to even watch gameplay of it, but when I went to bed and when she went to bed, my dad would wake me up and let me watch the two of them play. In 1998, I was finally allowed to play this game (and a few others too), and I remember being hooked right away. Now, 25 years later, I still play it, and I still enjoy it. Great video.
Yo dude! you are here too, I didn't know you are a fan of Jake, I watched your playthuroughs for the secrets in OG doom games. Bro, You are really good at playing doom.👏👏Damn... Haven't played Doom in a while & I really want to play doom again now.....🥺🥺
My younger brother and I were teenagers in the late 90's. We each had our own PS setups in our rooms. We would use the link cable to co op the game. To do this, we drilled a hole in the wall and ran the link cable through that. There were no real gaming headsets that we were aware of back then. So I found this walkie talkie headset made for toddlers for $10 at the Toys R Us and we used that. The things were uncomfortable and had this red plastic visor over the eyes. We had to break out the plastic but couldn't do it cleanly so there we these little shards in our peripheral that actual added an ambiance of having a cracked visor or something. The co op in Final DOOM was insanely good. Ammo wasn't shared so you had to make call outs before picking anything up. There was friendly fire. This made the game so much better. We really had to coordinate where we were aiming and when we were getting overwhelmed. All of this felt even more realistic due to the fact we were in different rooms. The shitty walkie talkies had a lot of white noise when you were talking so it really sounded like a scene from Aliens when shit hit the fan. I've been gaming for a long time. That was one of the most memorable gaming experiences to this day.
I still remember being 14, bringing Doom home, and the smell of it when I opened the box. Doom, Myst, and Descent were my foray into PC games as I too was (and still am) a console guy.
your story of the random computer setup guy with the 'file' brought back soooo many memories from my 90s childhood. Growing up, every few years, I'd encountered one of those guys who'd keep up on the wild days of pc gaming. Thanks1
First time ever seeing Doom was in my late uncle's 386 back in 93. After that, every single computer i had in my life had a copy of Doom on it. 30 years later, i'm happy to keep playing Doom, and even better, creating mods for it. Doom is indeed a very precious part of my life that i will carry with me until the end.
I had a ZX spectrum 48k for years I got it in the 70s. My next door neighbor gave me his sons computer because he didn't like the games his son was playing lol. When I booted up the computer and played Doom for the first time, I was blown away my heart was pumping so fast. It was awesome. My sister said my jaw was wide open with shock & awe the whole time while I was playing it. I still play it because of the mods, this game will never die.
I played Doom for the first time in 2019, and it quickly became one of my all-time favorite games. I exclusively play it on GZDoom because I refuse to let go of the ability to look up and down, but the fact that I enjoyed it so much, even in such a recent timeframe, truly speaks volumes about the game's exceptional quality.
It's one of the best FPS games in existence even by today standards. Tight gameplay experience, perfect monster rooster and perfect arsenal. Even mods fail to improve on this formula and the best WADS out there are vanilla in those aspects.
@@knightofvirtue613I will take a look. Currently I'm playing DOOM infinite and I'm having a blast. You've prob already played it, but I would recommend GMOTA. It is the wad that got me into 1993 DOOM.
Played Doom 2 at first at a family friend's house in 1996, my mind was blown. Then my dad got me my first pc in 1997. The people who set it up loaded up a games folder with all the games you mentioned, including some early gems like Commander Keen and Dangerous Dave.
Doom 1 & 2, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Heretic, King's Quest 1-5, Quest for Glory 1-4 and Prince of Persia. I grew up playing them all and they were, and still are, glorious! It also helped shaped my obsession with computers and gaming at a very young age! I still have my Acer 486 DX 33Mhz machine though I started on a Tandy 1000!!! Fun times indeed! Edited for games I forgot to add! :)
I spent hours playing Prince of Persia in school computer classes. They never really taught us any actual computing but one of the teachers must have loved it because it was on every machine.
I remember being introduced to Doom at 10 or so when my dad was playing it upstairs in his room and I came in asking what he was playing. It was a wrap since, I was hooked INSTANTLY. I remember getting wads and instructions on how to load them in MS-DOS from friends in school. It was such a great time. I was hooked on fps's back then. Doom, Heretic, Quake, Dark forces...it was a great time. To this day I still play Doom and have all kinds of HD texture packs, weapon and monster packs, wads, conversions etc...it's a timeless experience.
Doom is one of my first experiences with video games. I remember my dad playing both Wolfenstein and Doom with me on his lap. Probably not the best thing to be watching as a kid, but it was time with my dad.
played Doom for the first time in the early 2010s in my early 20s and loved it. Played all of Doom, Doom 2, and Final Doom. There's not really any other fps game that replicates the feel of the Doom games that I think Jake is talking about. It's been a while since I have played the Doom games, but I've revisited Wolfenstein 3d just in the last few weeks and I am remembering the awesomeness of the Doom and Wolfenstein 3d games. If you have never played either one and love video games and fps then you need to check it out.
It was also 30 years ago that the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. Soon after, my dad and a friend of his started a small business where they provided people with internet service. Trying to comprehend this, although I lived it, is tough. We've all come a long way. All that said, Doom (and Doom II) was a big part of my pre-teen years.
Just as a heads up to people, a couple big things happened for the anniversary today. SIGIL II came out and is as fantastic as the first one, and the Quake Remaster on Game Pass has a new add-on for QDoom, a remake of Doom's first episode in Quake.
I was a teenager when Doom came out. People don't understand just how expensive a computer was back then, I only knew one kid that had one but it did release on consoles. Some ports were good, some were terrible, I don't think I played it till a collection came out to promote the new game Doom 3.
Dude what you just said. I experienced the same thing. Everything from the sweaty computer guy setting everything up to the description of what Doom felt like the first time playing. Dude everything you said was just spot on. Doom holds a very special place in my heart
I played the original Doom on an Xbox 360 right around the time Doom 2016 got teased (the sliding door with the cyber demon silhouette) and I loved it and I got my siblings to love it too which was crazy since I was the extremely needy kid in my family and everyone was kinda not! I eventually got it on iPad and played it there and of course the PC version a few years later! I love the original Doom, here's to 30 more!
My first Doom game was Doom 2 on the GBA. I live in Germany, so i could only hear about the games and seeing an actual Doom game on the shelfs was weird and exiting.
Doom is pure gameplay and an excellent example of every aspect of a game coming together that creates an instant classic in the medium. Doom to me wasn’t just a peek into the future of gaming, it’s what games (especially) modern shooters fail to capture and some have come close, but Doom is eternal. Rip and tear forever!
Hey Jake. Great great content. As a 90s kid who is now 35, I can relate so much to this video. It doesn't matter if it isn't some "breaking news" or a new review or anything recent about the whole gaming world. And dare I say, these are even better than your gameranx content, by far. These personal pieces are awesome, please keep doing more of it.
I was in 3rd grade in 1993. I moved to a new neighborhood over that summer and made a new friend that lived down the street. I went over to his house after the first day of school and he showed me a game on his computer called Doom... 30 years later I am still playing on PC but it all started that day. Doom started it all for me and it will always have a special place in my heart.
I still like to play a bit of Doom 1 or 2 from time to time. I enjoy navigating the maze. Later versions seem to lose that and just have more monsters and effects and silly teleporting.
My first encounter with Doom must have been in early-ish 1994 when my dad brought home a shareware disc from some sort of tech expo or something. I was 9 at the time. The two things I remember about those earliest days of Doom is that I had trouble getting the music to work, and that the atmosphere of the hangar (E1M1) scared me so much that I didn't really play it until I got a printout of cheat codes so I could play with invulnerability/god mode. Fast-forward and I've been in Doom's modding/map-making community for roughly the last 3 years. Finally. (And how this happened is a story of its own.)
I was introduced to the Doom shareware back in the summer of 1994, when I was 12. A close friend of mine had a computer at his house with a bunch of games installed on it. I remember being instantly hooked to Doom. And I was just so fascinated by it. For the time, those "3D" spaces felt so incredibly immersive and atmospheric. I remember navigating the 'hell' levels when I was a kid, looking at those ancient brick castles and ruins you wander through. I remember feeling this sense of awe and wonder. Because the story was so light and simple, there was no backstory or details given about the 'hell' dimension or the demons. So those hell maps in classic Doom had a very mysterious vibe, like "How old are these ruins? Who built them? The demons? Why?" etc etc. (All these details are fleshed out in Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal of course, but I actually liked the lore of Doom better back when nothing about the demons or 'hell' was explained to the player.) Nowadays you look at classic Doom and it's an incredibly simple game with very simple 'retro' graphics. But back in the early-mid 90s, some of those classic Doom maps really did make you feel transported to some strange and surreal place. It was awesome. And it still is. I've never stopped being a fan of Doom and id Software in general. There's many game franchises from many genres that I love and that are very special to me, but I think I can safely say that Doom is #1 to me personally. Sorry for the wall of text.
So I gotta say, I didn’t grow up with doom nor did I even catch the tail end of the doom era. Technically I was around, I just didn’t live with a lot of tech around me, especially PC. My first intro to doom was the 2016 reboot and then I went on to learn the history and just how fricking awesome OG doom is. Since then, I have played original doom multiple times cause it’s just a good fun time. And now, more than ever with where video games are heading, I just like mindlessly having fun by blasting some demons and listening to that awesome soundtrack
The shareware aspect that really helped, (and a lot of other games at the time) a decent chunk of game for free, you got a real feel for the game before you put down your cash.... or box of 3.5inch floppies at your mates place :)
Im loving sigil ii, namely the way Romero generates challenges based on restricted movement and resource management rather than large volumes of powerful enemies. Reminds me of my impression of Doom back in '93 when I sucked at it
The sounds of doom are engrained in my head, I love absolutly all of them, and I always envied the sound of chaingunners enemy chaingun, which is basically the super shotgun a lot of times, but your chaingun sounded like the pistol
Lol I love Jake talking about the mystical nerd who set up everyone's PC in the 90s. I'm from an Arab country and I completely always thought that was unique to us, but that man was the one who introduced me to PC gaming. Literally also my uncle got a PC and a mysterious nerd came in and "set it up" (which now I realize was essentially installing cracked Windows) including adding a "games" folder with almost exactly the games you listed and even a "music" folder with some 90s bangers, cracked MS Office, cracked Antivirus etc. Strange to think how my particular taste in games was shaped by this random hustler.
Doom and especially Doom II are still my favorite shooter and among my favorite games of all times and the fact that new wads, campaigns, stages etc are still being made to this day is a testament to the fact that they crafted a masterpiece. It also helps that it's rather simple compared to modern games, but if you look behind the curtain and learn how things work (Decino does some fantastic work explaining the code and also plays new stages, so give him a try if you like Doom content), you'll be amazed how technical everything was. John Carmack and John Romero really were ahead of their time with this one.
My first experience with Doom was in a computer store at the age of 13. They had it on display showing off their newest computer. There stood a sweaty ass nerd about a year older than I. He was playing it, hogging up the machine and all I could do was watch in all its textured glory. I had played Wolf 3D, Catacombs 3D, Blake Stone, Corridor 7, and any number of wireframe games from before. But this, this was different. Within the year I had downloaded it and started hacking away at it. I modded the player into an imp which ended up killing itself which ended the player immediately (thanks DeHacked). That was what started my lifelong gaming career. I owe my passion to that childhood sensation.
Doom gets to sit on the pantheon of all time great games forever. its was easily one of the most influential games of all time. if we're talking about computer games, its in the discussion for THE most important game ever, not to even mention what it did for FPS's in general. 30 years though? damn do i feel old...
Very similar situation happened to me. When I was about 5 or 6 my older brother and I got a used windows 95 pc BUT whoever sold it to us made sure to load it up with a bunch of Doom mods, I remember playing a sort of gothic/medieval themed mod the most. All we had at the time was a Super Nintendo so that was our first experience gaming on pc, and we never looked back!
Doom is one of the best games ever made. The graphics, sound, gameplay & design still hold up to this day thanks to modern ports. It’s incredible. All FPS games nowadays still owe a lot to the original Doom. Loved your video. I discovered Doom first on a Shareware compilation disc, but then one of my classmates had Doom II and we we’re fantasizing what a Doom 3 could be. So many stories, so many memories.
I remember my uncle installing it on my family computer when I was a kid. He showed us the first level and the secret room and told us what the BFG stood for. I was probably 7 or 8 at the time and it felt so…cool. There really isn’t a word to describe it other than that. It was just cool and unlike anything I had played to date. I’d played wolfenstein but this was so much faster and violent. It’s crazy to retrieve that memory that I haven’t thought about in so long. Thanks Jake!
I never got to play doom as a kid. I played it for the first time on Xbox series s last year (I’m almost 30) and I was in love. Like you said it feels so smooth and the way the character moves is satisfying as hell. Can’t believe it’s 30! Thanks for sharing Jake and also you are cool
Doom is awesome. I remember playing an early tech demo of it as a teenager - no sound, no music, just one level, slightly different graphics. And it still was a mindblowingly good game. It is the game that got me into modding, into graphics design, into leveldesign and ultimately into gamedev. To this day, whenever I build a new computer, the first game I install and give a go is the original Doom. Amazingly it still runs on current gen hardware and OS - which is not a thing that can be said about any game that old.
I first played doom on switch and it was a ton of fun. It’s always cool trying an old game you’ve never played just to see it live up to all the hype. One of the greats for sure.
I'm currently at home with a burnout from work and I can't focus on anything except DOOM and DOOM 2. It's probably a combination of it not really having a story, the fact you can't aim up and down and the levels being just complex enough to keep my mind from wandering. Whatever it is, I'm gratefull DOOM is still great after 30 years.
I remember being 10-12 years old and finding doom in Walmart. The shareware version of it with extra levels. I don't know if I knew what it was before I bought it. Played it for so long. God mode was the best
I remember picking up Doom 2 at seven years old at a Babbages back in the day. My Mom got us a Windows 98 for Christmas one year and somehow let me get it. My first ever video game and it scared the willies out of me. Many fond memories of playing it over and over again. Now that I have a Quest headset I can play it in VR and it's like discovering it all over again.
My first exposure to Doom was a friend of my mom who had it on his computer. I was hooked and wouldn’t have the chance at owning my own copy til it released on SNES. I played the crap out of my copy til my family got a computer to play Doom proper. Favorite game by far to this day.
Well... you're not a Grandpa... but I just became a Grandpa a month ago tomorrow, haha. I'm 46 about to turn 47 and I remember playing Doom pretty much when it first came out. I was like 15-16, and there was this friend of a friend that was raving about this game and we needed to come over and see it. It looked amazing and I immediately started to try and convince my Dad to get it. He's an old school gamer and geek and once he looked into it, he was all for it. It's always been a favorite and playing Doom 3 on the Quest 3 recently, was a hell of a throwback, too. Not to mention, just awesome! Oh and the mod is free if you already own the game on Steam.
This year really revived my favorite okd school fps games like half life, Quake 2 with remastered edition, turok 3, and then doom with its 6th episode of ultimate doom Sigi 2 just wow its a great year before it ended for classic gaming.
Doom was massive for me as a kid! It came out a few months after I was born but I remember I used to sit and watch my dad play it a few years later. The game had such longevity, and wasn't forgotten about a few months after release like some games are today. John Romero recently released an autobiography called "Doom Guy" and it also clears up a few misconceptions from "Masters of Doom". Amazing books, and highly recommend them if you are infatuated by the story of id and Doom, like I am
I was 12 when Doom came out, probably around that age bracket where it was the coolest thing in the entire world at the time. For a kid of that age, teenagers and young adults let me tell you the gaming world changed forever with that game. I begged my Step Dad to upgrade his PC so we could play it on a good enough resolution and with Sound Blaster instead of the basic sound card fix which were awful. And when he did it was like all my christmases had come at once. As good as Doom was ( and it still is my all time favourite game ) It jumped to a whole new level when we could play Deathmatch on a LAN. My mate had 3 PC's in his basement and we would play deathmatch all night. It was an incredible experience and memories I shall cherish forever.
Everything about Doom is so iconic that even modern rereleases of the game cannot touch. Everything from playing with the arrow keys (a time before ASWD became the norm) to not having to download 1st day patches makes this game a symbol of days gone by.
Doom on a TI-87 calculator. I had it for the PS1 because my dad had it on PC and then bought a PlayStation to play it and other games. One of the first games I’ve ever played, and will always be one of my favorite games.
my parents were staff at a boarding school when i was a kid and we lived on campus with the kids. I was too young to have my own pc but the students always let me in their dorms and they had full on LAN parties and everyone was playing it. being included in that at that age was the coolest
I love Doom and still to this day, Doom (1993) and Doom II are my most played games both of them I have 7000 hours on. What I love about these games is the music, sound effects, and the levels in general. The gameplay holds up very well and it's fun finding every secret in every level the singleplayer is amazing. I grew up with these games so they hold a special place in my heart.
First experience with Doom was watching my uncle play it back in 94. We didn’t have a PC back then, so computers were already some mystical object. Seeing this game for the first time was nothing short of mind blowing. I had never seen anything like it. My experiences with games up to that point were platformers like Sonic, or crude 3d games like Hunter for Atari ST. This was such a quantum leap in what I thought was even possible. What made it even more amazing was he had his sound blaster hooked up to a home theatre system. So the thumping bass of the guns, and the roars of the demons, to the music. Wow. When we eventually got our own PC, it didn’t have a sound card, it was less awesome, but I still have a fondness for the pc speaker bleeps. Later came multiplayer and making my own maps. Amazing it still has an active community to this day. Recently played through them all again in the VR port on the Quest. Try it if you haven’t, it’s fantastic.
I think that every level of Doom is permanently etched into my memory. I will remember running around those levels and blasting demons until the day I die. Great memories!
I have a similar situation, where I was exposed to this game through my uncle. We used to live couple hours away from my grandma. My uncle lived with her in the basement. We used to go up every holiday and long weekends to visit. My first exposure to gaming was through him. He had a Sega Genesis. Got to experience sonic, mortal combat, golf game (can't remember the name) and street fighter. Every time we visited, I was closed up on his TV and Sega in my grandmas basement. One day, he got a computer. Pretty sure it was a Gateway too. He showed me this new game he got, Doom. I will always remember just how amazed I was with the game. Like you mentioned, it had a creepy vibe to it. Playing it by myself in my grandma's basement, the game monster noises would freak me out sometimes. Honestly, it's thanks to uncle that I'm a gamer today. Definitely don't game as much as I like now, being married and 2 kids with full time job. But man, do I miss that nostalgia. Innocent times with fun games.
I was a console kid, and I remember seeing all the Doom screenshots in gaming magazines and just desperately wanting to play it. Then, my best friend got the 32X (attachment for the megadrive) with Doom. Playing it for the first time was just one of those core moments for me. I was always a gamer, but that solidified it for me in such an essential and fundamental way that it's difficult to articulate.
It was an iconic, legendary, and unforgettable game indeed. I still have many childhood memories that came to my mind about how I spent on the computer all day long while playing DooM. Happy anniversary to all DooM fans and the community. That's a really great franchise.
My first PC also came 'pre installed' with Doom! Spent so many hours on it, plus hundreds more with DEU (Doom editor utilities). Good times! I also remember hanging out on MIRC until the very early hours waiting for John Romero to pop in and drop qtest.exe (Quake test).. RIP my DX4 100 when that came out.
I was 13 in 93, so I was the perfect age to play this game. I experienced it through Sega 32X. For it being what it was, it was a hell of a game on that console. Thanks for the doom memories and nostalgia.I might pick it up and give it a try. Again.
Same story here Jake, back in early 2000 my uncle bought a PC and he had Doom installed. Essentially Doom was my first game, I was around 7-8yrs old.. Go crazy
I'd always had commadore, vic-20, C64, Amiga 500 & 1200 but the moment I saw Doom in 94 (and day of the tentacle in full voice on CDROM)I went out and bought a dx2-66 pc and have never stopped playing it, my new year tradition is to speed run through it. I still have wav files I spent recording off of VHS tapes to use in Doom audio studio, plenty of Ace Ventura, Beavis & Butthead etc. it is still a thing of beauty and my favourite game of all time.
I randomly wandered into Sears at the local mall, and one of the employees in the electronics department had installed Doom on one of the display computers, along with some mods (the demon looked like Pac-Man), then I found one of my sister's friends had Doom on his PC. When I was able to get a new computer one I made a point to get Ultimate Doom for as soon as I could. When I think of gaming in the 90s three games stand out as reflecting my experience: Doom, Hexen (which used the Doom engine), and SimCity. Decades later, my first attempt to make my own 3D game was heavily inspired by Doom.
I first encountered Doom around 1995, when a shareware version of it mysteriously made the rounds of the computers at the campus I went to for TAFE. We weren't allowed to play any games on them, and teachers kept deleting the Doom files, but they kept popping back up. It still holds up VERY fucking well now, too.
My very earliest gaming memory is from Doom. It was 1994, I was 4 years old, and my dad got the shareware version on his work laptop. He would put God Mode on (so I didn't get scared or die constantly) and let me loose.
Excellent video : ) Glad I found your chan through FPSecond. Used to play through the shareware Doom 1 copy that came with my dad's work computer in absurdum, mostly with friends from the neighborhood. Being like 8-9 at the time, ergo not particularly great at anything, playing that kind of game could even be sorta delegated between two- one controlling, the other helping, heh. Same computer came with wolf3d, monkey island 1, Loom and some other stuff that really got my interest peaked. 39 today, still crap at games, and IT pro for a living. ^^
My neighbor had Doom and Wolf3D on her computer in 1993 and I'd go over there and play on her PC after school. Our family got a higher end 486 with sound the next year and a buddy brought over Doom shareware on two floppies - it was the very best gaming experience I'd ever had up to that point. We "found" the full version on a BBS not long after. To this day I rank Doom as my favorite video game ever, on any platform. Nothing really comes close (Half-Life maybe)
I'm floored that DOOM still gets new campaigns. I have it on Switch since it's perfect for pick up and play, and it just never gets old. Best $2 I ever spent.
Doom was mythical when I was a kid. You had to know a guy who knew a guy who had it on its computer 😂
that's good stuff man
Hearing Jake tell a story about some sweaty nerd setting up his PC sounded like love at first sight 😍
I remember kids talking about it on recess about how violent and cool it was.
especialy when someone found the chainsaw. Epic shit!
Luckily, that guy was my dad! Doom is among my favourite games. Doom 2 is the best IMO.
Doom is such iconic game. I used to play it at my dad’s office.
your dad sounds cool
Fun fact; John Romero streams on Twitch and he does play DOOM sometimes!
1. Games had a longer staying power back in the 90s. You could play certain games years later and still be blown away
2. A lot of people in the 90s up until the early 2000s who werent tech savvy had a guy whod come over to setup the computer initially and maybe teach basic functions on how to use the computer.
3. The 90s gaming scene definitely has a "you had to be there" vibe. Explaining demos today and how a demos could be super unique from the original game to the point that it had levels that werent available on the main game or just including the first level (THPS 1 and fur fighters demo was a good example)
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Doom 1993 regularly goes on sale 3-4 times a year for $1-2, and is available on all gaming platforms. If you have not everyone should try it at least once in their life. It’s one of the must-play games honestly.
I personally love when Jake gets to pick an older game he loves and just goes on a 10 min+ rant on it 🤣 top tier content as always bud. 🤙🏻
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Doom II was my first one as a kid, gosh this game was amazing. Quake II, Hexen, Heretics, Rise of the Triads wow great memories
Did you play theor shareware versions? I certainly did!
I remember getting a disk of Chex quest with a box of Chex as a kid. We didn't have a computer until like several years later. When I finally did play it, it was insane. That put me down the doom rabbit hole and I went through doom 1 & 2, heretic, marathon, a huge quake phase, and finally halo. now I work at Bungie working on marathon :')
Chex Quest was an amazing Doom clone!
It's so cool to hear your story, man. That's awesome! Way to follow your dreams and end up in the big leagues!
god my place is a mess sorry construction still happening 😬
I forgive you
Dude, I remember playing these games (Doom, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem) on my class computers back in 94 or 95. I just completed DooM 64 (Switch) yesterday and started the lost levels tonight. Didn't even realize it was the 30th anniversay (I feel old af now). 2016 is probably my fav in the series, now. It just hit so damn hard when it launched. Amazing music. Amazing graphics. Just arena shooting insanity. Eternal was alright, but a steeper learning curve. I seriously hope the next iteration ramps it up even more!
Duke Nukem and Commander Keen games yes!
Doom 2016 dropped at the perfect time. The industry was swamped with other (inferior) shooters that were so full of bloat and other bullshit. D2016 "righted the ship" and brought us an amazing modern reincarnation of the game that started it all. I really enjoyed the sequel, too. But like you I'm excited to see what the next instalment provides.
Sorry kids, but Duum 2016 was just insultingly terrible. Literally dumbed down "cinematic" console shooter with RPG elements. Zero exploration, tiny bullet sponge bosses, Super mario platforking, and that idiotic GK system...
Terrible MP and zero modding tools to boot. That Bethesda crap ruined the entire IP for all eternity.
Great video!
I was 23 when Doom came out, and we played the heck out of it, Wolfenstein, Heretic, Hexen, Quake and so on. We had first person games before, even back on my Commodore 64, but none were quite like Doom. Just finished Sigil 2 for the anniversary!
DOOM will always be my favorite game. I remember playing it for the first time on my older brother's PC. I have it on every system I have. Oh, and the soundtrack is truly the best! It truly got me into paying more attention to game's soundtracks more! I am going to a friend's LAN party this weekend. DOOM and Quake will be the games we play the most just like back in the day!
My first experiences with Doom date back to around 1996, similar to your timeframe. Watching my dad and uncle play the game, because being 6 years old I wasn't allowed to play. I remember my mom not wanting me to even watch gameplay of it, but when I went to bed and when she went to bed, my dad would wake me up and let me watch the two of them play. In 1998, I was finally allowed to play this game (and a few others too), and I remember being hooked right away. Now, 25 years later, I still play it, and I still enjoy it. Great video.
Yo dude! you are here too, I didn't know you are a fan of Jake, I watched your playthuroughs for the secrets in OG doom games. Bro, You are really good at playing doom.👏👏Damn... Haven't played Doom in a while & I really want to play doom again now.....🥺🥺
My 5 year old son loves Doom 1 & 2. They're truly timeless classics.
My younger brother and I were teenagers in the late 90's. We each had our own PS setups in our rooms. We would use the link cable to co op the game.
To do this, we drilled a hole in the wall and ran the link cable through that. There were no real gaming headsets that we were aware of back then. So I found this walkie talkie headset made for toddlers for $10 at the Toys R Us and we used that. The things were uncomfortable and had this red plastic visor over the eyes. We had to break out the plastic but couldn't do it cleanly so there we these little shards in our peripheral that actual added an ambiance of having a cracked visor or something.
The co op in Final DOOM was insanely good. Ammo wasn't shared so you had to make call outs before picking anything up. There was friendly fire. This made the game so much better. We really had to coordinate where we were aiming and when we were getting overwhelmed.
All of this felt even more realistic due to the fact we were in different rooms. The shitty walkie talkies had a lot of white noise when you were talking so it really sounded like a scene from Aliens when shit hit the fan.
I've been gaming for a long time. That was one of the most memorable gaming experiences to this day.
I still remember being 14, bringing Doom home, and the smell of it when I opened the box. Doom, Myst, and Descent were my foray into PC games as I too was (and still am) a console guy.
Doom 1, top 5 game of all time for me. Still one of the best FPS games ever made.
Being that sweaty computer tech bro that throws in some freebies for the kids, that's what I aspired to be
your story of the random computer setup guy with the 'file' brought back soooo many memories from my 90s childhood. Growing up, every few years, I'd encountered one of those guys who'd keep up on the wild days of pc gaming. Thanks1
First time ever seeing Doom was in my late uncle's 386 back in 93. After that, every single computer i had in my life had a copy of Doom on it. 30 years later, i'm happy to keep playing Doom, and even better, creating mods for it.
Doom is indeed a very precious part of my life that i will carry with me until the end.
Ahh I remember you telling the sweaty nerd story in the FPS podcast. It's so wholesome I love it!
I had a ZX spectrum 48k for years I got it in the 70s. My next door neighbor gave me his sons computer because he didn't like the games his son was playing lol. When I booted up the computer and played Doom for the first time, I was blown away my heart was pumping so fast. It was awesome. My sister said my jaw was wide open with shock & awe the whole time while I was playing it. I still play it because of the mods, this game will never die.
I played Doom for the first time in 2019, and it quickly became one of my all-time favorite games. I exclusively play it on GZDoom because I refuse to let go of the ability to look up and down, but the fact that I enjoyed it so much, even in such a recent timeframe, truly speaks volumes about the game's exceptional quality.
Go check out these mods: Winter's Fury, Back to Saturn X, Eviternity, and The Troopers' Playground. GLHF
It's one of the best FPS games in existence even by today standards. Tight gameplay experience, perfect monster rooster and perfect arsenal. Even mods fail to improve on this formula and the best WADS out there are vanilla in those aspects.
The ability to look up and down only enhances the classic Doom games for me. It actually turns The Chasm into a straight-up fun level.
@@knightofvirtue613I will take a look. Currently I'm playing DOOM infinite and I'm having a blast. You've prob already played it, but I would recommend GMOTA. It is the wad that got me into 1993 DOOM.
@@ClarkKentai I can't imagine not being able to look where you're standing on that level. Sounds like a nightmare
Played Doom 2 at first at a family friend's house in 1996, my mind was blown. Then my dad got me my first pc in 1997. The people who set it up loaded up a games folder with all the games you mentioned, including some early gems like Commander Keen and Dangerous Dave.
Doom 1 & 2, Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Heretic, King's Quest 1-5, Quest for Glory 1-4 and Prince of Persia. I grew up playing them all and they were, and still are, glorious! It also helped shaped my obsession with computers and gaming at a very young age! I still have my Acer 486 DX 33Mhz machine though I started on a Tandy 1000!!! Fun times indeed!
Edited for games I forgot to add! :)
I spent hours playing Prince of Persia in school computer classes. They never really taught us any actual computing but one of the teachers must have loved it because it was on every machine.
😂 I think that's what my first computer was called T100 or something. I played those games as well as Mad dog cowboy game and mist. Tons of others.
I was too scared to play it as a kid. Played it later when I was 20, had a blast. Doom is pure fun in a way that a lot of games aren't.
I remember being introduced to Doom at 10 or so when my dad was playing it upstairs in his room and I came in asking what he was playing. It was a wrap since, I was hooked INSTANTLY. I remember getting wads and instructions on how to load them in MS-DOS from friends in school. It was such a great time. I was hooked on fps's back then. Doom, Heretic, Quake, Dark forces...it was a great time.
To this day I still play Doom and have all kinds of HD texture packs, weapon and monster packs, wads, conversions etc...it's a timeless experience.
Doom is one of my first experiences with video games. I remember my dad playing both Wolfenstein and Doom with me on his lap. Probably not the best thing to be watching as a kid, but it was time with my dad.
played Doom for the first time in the early 2010s in my early 20s and loved it. Played all of Doom, Doom 2, and Final Doom. There's not really any other fps game that replicates the feel of the Doom games that I think Jake is talking about. It's been a while since I have played the Doom games, but I've revisited Wolfenstein 3d just in the last few weeks and I am remembering the awesomeness of the Doom and Wolfenstein 3d games.
If you have never played either one and love video games and fps then you need to check it out.
It was also 30 years ago that the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. Soon after, my dad and a friend of his started a small business where they provided people with internet service. Trying to comprehend this, although I lived it, is tough. We've all come a long way.
All that said, Doom (and Doom II) was a big part of my pre-teen years.
Just as a heads up to people, a couple big things happened for the anniversary today. SIGIL II came out and is as fantastic as the first one, and the Quake Remaster on Game Pass has a new add-on for QDoom, a remake of Doom's first episode in Quake.
I was a teenager when Doom came out. People don't understand just how expensive a computer was back then, I only knew one kid that had one but it did release on consoles. Some ports were good, some were terrible, I don't think I played it till a collection came out to promote the new game Doom 3.
Dude what you just said. I experienced the same thing. Everything from the sweaty computer guy setting everything up to the description of what Doom felt like the first time playing. Dude everything you said was just spot on. Doom holds a very special place in my heart
I played the original Doom on an Xbox 360 right around the time Doom 2016 got teased (the sliding door with the cyber demon silhouette) and I loved it and I got my siblings to love it too which was crazy since I was the extremely needy kid in my family and everyone was kinda not! I eventually got it on iPad and played it there and of course the PC version a few years later! I love the original Doom, here's to 30 more!
My first Doom game was Doom 2 on the GBA. I live in Germany, so i could only hear about the games and seeing an actual Doom game on the shelfs was weird and exiting.
Doom is pure gameplay and an excellent example of every aspect of a game coming together that creates an instant classic in the medium.
Doom to me wasn’t just a peek into the future of gaming, it’s what games (especially) modern shooters fail to capture and some have come close, but Doom is eternal.
Rip and tear forever!
Hey Jake. Great great content. As a 90s kid who is now 35, I can relate so much to this video. It doesn't matter if it isn't some "breaking news" or a new review or anything recent about the whole gaming world. And dare I say, these are even better than your gameranx content, by far. These personal pieces are awesome, please keep doing more of it.
I was in 3rd grade in 1993. I moved to a new neighborhood over that summer and made a new friend that lived down the street. I went over to his house after the first day of school and he showed me a game on his computer called Doom... 30 years later I am still playing on PC but it all started that day. Doom started it all for me and it will always have a special place in my heart.
I still like to play a bit of Doom 1 or 2 from time to time. I enjoy navigating the maze. Later versions seem to lose that and just have more monsters and effects and silly teleporting.
Coming from the MrMattyPlays video, fantastic video, as someone who played this game recently for the first time, it holds up amazingly.
Still play doom regularly. There is so many great mods, and more coming out all the time
My first encounter with Doom must have been in early-ish 1994 when my dad brought home a shareware disc from some sort of tech expo or something. I was 9 at the time.
The two things I remember about those earliest days of Doom is that I had trouble getting the music to work, and that the atmosphere of the hangar (E1M1) scared me so much that I didn't really play it until I got a printout of cheat codes so I could play with invulnerability/god mode.
Fast-forward and I've been in Doom's modding/map-making community for roughly the last 3 years. Finally. (And how this happened is a story of its own.)
I was introduced to the Doom shareware back in the summer of 1994, when I was 12. A close friend of mine had a computer at his house with a bunch of games installed on it. I remember being instantly hooked to Doom. And I was just so fascinated by it. For the time, those "3D" spaces felt so incredibly immersive and atmospheric. I remember navigating the 'hell' levels when I was a kid, looking at those ancient brick castles and ruins you wander through. I remember feeling this sense of awe and wonder. Because the story was so light and simple, there was no backstory or details given about the 'hell' dimension or the demons. So those hell maps in classic Doom had a very mysterious vibe, like "How old are these ruins? Who built them? The demons? Why?" etc etc. (All these details are fleshed out in Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal of course, but I actually liked the lore of Doom better back when nothing about the demons or 'hell' was explained to the player.)
Nowadays you look at classic Doom and it's an incredibly simple game with very simple 'retro' graphics. But back in the early-mid 90s, some of those classic Doom maps really did make you feel transported to some strange and surreal place. It was awesome. And it still is. I've never stopped being a fan of Doom and id Software in general. There's many game franchises from many genres that I love and that are very special to me, but I think I can safely say that Doom is #1 to me personally. Sorry for the wall of text.
My First Encounter with Doom was Watching my Dad Playing Doom 64 and then play it by myself along with Duke Nukem & Perfect Dark
So I gotta say, I didn’t grow up with doom nor did I even catch the tail end of the doom era. Technically I was around, I just didn’t live with a lot of tech around me, especially PC. My first intro to doom was the 2016 reboot and then I went on to learn the history and just how fricking awesome OG doom is. Since then, I have played original doom multiple times cause it’s just a good fun time. And now, more than ever with where video games are heading, I just like mindlessly having fun by blasting some demons and listening to that awesome soundtrack
I remember getting the original shareware version of Doom when it came out. There was just nothing like it at the time.... UGH. Now I feel old. :P
The shareware aspect that really helped, (and a lot of other games at the time) a decent chunk of game for free, you got a real feel for the game before you put down your cash.... or box of 3.5inch floppies at your mates place :)
DOOM: motion sickness at the start and then the joys of making ever goofier .wad files. Thanks for the memories, Jake!
Im loving sigil ii, namely the way Romero generates challenges based on restricted movement and resource management rather than large volumes of powerful enemies. Reminds me of my impression of Doom back in '93 when I sucked at it
The sounds of doom are engrained in my head, I love absolutly all of them, and I always envied the sound of chaingunners enemy chaingun, which is basically the super shotgun a lot of times, but your chaingun sounded like the pistol
Thank you, sweaty. Also you’re probably thinking of Internet cafes, which used to be a thing.
I played Doom when I was like 14. It blew me away.
Or even more 90s "cybercafe"
It's mad how well the gunplay still holds up but it's the music as well, so good.
Lol I love Jake talking about the mystical nerd who set up everyone's PC in the 90s. I'm from an Arab country and I completely always thought that was unique to us, but that man was the one who introduced me to PC gaming. Literally also my uncle got a PC and a mysterious nerd came in and "set it up" (which now I realize was essentially installing cracked Windows) including adding a "games" folder with almost exactly the games you listed and even a "music" folder with some 90s bangers, cracked MS Office, cracked Antivirus etc. Strange to think how my particular taste in games was shaped by this random hustler.
Doom and especially Doom II are still my favorite shooter and among my favorite games of all times and the fact that new wads, campaigns, stages etc are still being made to this day is a testament to the fact that they crafted a masterpiece.
It also helps that it's rather simple compared to modern games, but if you look behind the curtain and learn how things work (Decino does some fantastic work explaining the code and also plays new stages, so give him a try if you like Doom content), you'll be amazed how technical everything was.
John Carmack and John Romero really were ahead of their time with this one.
I live the ongoing construction on Jakes game room. Makes me feel better about taking 2 weeks painting mine. It’ll be done this weekend!
My first experience with Doom was in a computer store at the age of 13. They had it on display showing off their newest computer. There stood a sweaty ass nerd about a year older than I. He was playing it, hogging up the machine and all I could do was watch in all its textured glory. I had played Wolf 3D, Catacombs 3D, Blake Stone, Corridor 7, and any number of wireframe games from before. But this, this was different. Within the year I had downloaded it and started hacking away at it. I modded the player into an imp which ended up killing itself which ended the player immediately (thanks DeHacked). That was what started my lifelong gaming career. I owe my passion to that childhood sensation.
The first time I played DOOM was in 97'. 9 year old me was blown away by it. Still one of my favourite games to this day.
Doom gets to sit on the pantheon of all time great games forever. its was easily one of the most influential games of all time. if we're talking about computer games, its in the discussion for THE most important game ever, not to even mention what it did for FPS's in general. 30 years though? damn do i feel old...
Very similar situation happened to me. When I was about 5 or 6 my older brother and I got a used windows 95 pc BUT whoever sold it to us made sure to load it up with a bunch of Doom mods, I remember playing a sort of gothic/medieval themed mod the most. All we had at the time was a Super Nintendo so that was our first experience gaming on pc, and we never looked back!
Doom is one of the best games ever made. The graphics, sound, gameplay & design still hold up to this day thanks to modern ports. It’s incredible. All FPS games nowadays still owe a lot to the original Doom.
Loved your video. I discovered Doom first on a Shareware compilation disc, but then one of my classmates had Doom II and we we’re fantasizing what a Doom 3 could be.
So many stories, so many memories.
I remember my uncle installing it on my family computer when I was a kid. He showed us the first level and the secret room and told us what the BFG stood for. I was probably 7 or 8 at the time and it felt so…cool. There really isn’t a word to describe it other than that. It was just cool and unlike anything I had played to date. I’d played wolfenstein but this was so much faster and violent. It’s crazy to retrieve that memory that I haven’t thought about in so long. Thanks Jake!
Amazing video, i have watched it throughly and really enjoyed it, thank you.
Playing prodeus and it is a love letter to doom! Great game and great video!
"Doom Clones" is what we called first person shooters before we had a name for them.
they kinda literally where they all ran off the doom engine at the time
@@seamees4022 Or the slightly better Build engine.
I never got to play doom as a kid. I played it for the first time on Xbox series s last year (I’m almost 30) and I was in love. Like you said it feels so smooth and the way the character moves is satisfying as hell. Can’t believe it’s 30! Thanks for sharing Jake and also you are cool
Doom is awesome. I remember playing an early tech demo of it as a teenager - no sound, no music, just one level, slightly different graphics. And it still was a mindblowingly good game. It is the game that got me into modding, into graphics design, into leveldesign and ultimately into gamedev. To this day, whenever I build a new computer, the first game I install and give a go is the original Doom. Amazingly it still runs on current gen hardware and OS - which is not a thing that can be said about any game that old.
I first played doom on switch and it was a ton of fun. It’s always cool trying an old game you’ve never played just to see it live up to all the hype. One of the greats for sure.
I'm currently at home with a burnout from work and I can't focus on anything except DOOM and DOOM 2.
It's probably a combination of it not really having a story, the fact you can't aim up and down and the levels being just complex enough to keep my mind from wandering.
Whatever it is, I'm gratefull DOOM is still great after 30 years.
I remember being 10-12 years old and finding doom in Walmart. The shareware version of it with extra levels. I don't know if I knew what it was before I bought it. Played it for so long. God mode was the best
I remember picking up Doom 2 at seven years old at a Babbages back in the day. My Mom got us a Windows 98 for Christmas one year and somehow let me get it. My first ever video game and it scared the willies out of me. Many fond memories of playing it over and over again.
Now that I have a Quest headset I can play it in VR and it's like discovering it all over again.
I played this in 93 on my uncle's computer. I remember being scared to play it, but i was so addicted to how fun it was, i kept coming back.
Agreed, there’s something so great about Doom where I have to replay it every couple of years.
My first exposure to Doom was a friend of my mom who had it on his computer. I was hooked and wouldn’t have the chance at owning my own copy til it released on SNES. I played the crap out of my copy til my family got a computer to play Doom proper. Favorite game by far to this day.
Well... you're not a Grandpa... but I just became a Grandpa a month ago tomorrow, haha. I'm 46 about to turn 47 and I remember playing Doom pretty much when it first came out. I was like 15-16, and there was this friend of a friend that was raving about this game and we needed to come over and see it. It looked amazing and I immediately started to try and convince my Dad to get it. He's an old school gamer and geek and once he looked into it, he was all for it. It's always been a favorite and playing Doom 3 on the Quest 3 recently, was a hell of a throwback, too. Not to mention, just awesome! Oh and the mod is free if you already own the game on Steam.
This year really revived my favorite okd school fps games like half life, Quake 2 with remastered edition, turok 3, and then doom with its 6th episode of ultimate doom Sigi 2 just wow its a great year before it ended for classic gaming.
Doom was massive for me as a kid! It came out a few months after I was born but I remember I used to sit and watch my dad play it a few years later. The game had such longevity, and wasn't forgotten about a few months after release like some games are today. John Romero recently released an autobiography called "Doom Guy" and it also clears up a few misconceptions from "Masters of Doom". Amazing books, and highly recommend them if you are infatuated by the story of id and Doom, like I am
I was 12 when Doom came out, probably around that age bracket where it was the coolest thing in the entire world at the time. For a kid of that age, teenagers and young adults let me tell you the gaming world changed forever with that game.
I begged my Step Dad to upgrade his PC so we could play it on a good enough resolution and with Sound Blaster instead of the basic sound card fix which were awful. And when he did it was like all my christmases had come at once.
As good as Doom was ( and it still is my all time favourite game )
It jumped to a whole new level when we could play Deathmatch on a LAN.
My mate had 3 PC's in his basement and we would play deathmatch all night. It was an incredible experience and memories I shall cherish forever.
Everything about Doom is so iconic that even modern rereleases of the game cannot touch. Everything from playing with the arrow keys (a time before ASWD became the norm) to not having to download 1st day patches makes this game a symbol of days gone by.
You’re still awesome and I’m pretty sure you might be older than 30 years old too. So pizza is still on you.
Doom on a TI-87 calculator.
I had it for the PS1 because my dad had it on PC and then bought a PlayStation to play it and other games. One of the first games I’ve ever played, and will always be one of my favorite games.
DOOM and Duke Nukem 3D are two of the earliest games I can ever remember playing as a kid. So many fun memories.
my parents were staff at a boarding school when i was a kid and we lived on campus with the kids. I was too young to have my own pc but the students always let me in their dorms and they had full on LAN parties and everyone was playing it. being included in that at that age was the coolest
I love Doom and still to this day, Doom (1993) and Doom II are my most played games both of them I have 7000 hours on.
What I love about these games is the music, sound effects, and the levels in general. The gameplay holds up very well and it's fun finding every secret in every level the singleplayer is amazing.
I grew up with these games so they hold a special place in my heart.
First experience with Doom was watching my uncle play it back in 94. We didn’t have a PC back then, so computers were already some mystical object. Seeing this game for the first time was nothing short of mind blowing. I had never seen anything like it. My experiences with games up to that point were platformers like Sonic, or crude 3d games like Hunter for Atari ST. This was such a quantum leap in what I thought was even possible.
What made it even more amazing was he had his sound blaster hooked up to a home theatre system. So the thumping bass of the guns, and the roars of the demons, to the music. Wow.
When we eventually got our own PC, it didn’t have a sound card, it was less awesome, but I still have a fondness for the pc speaker bleeps.
Later came multiplayer and making my own maps. Amazing it still has an active community to this day.
Recently played through them all again in the VR port on the Quest. Try it if you haven’t, it’s fantastic.
I think that every level of Doom is permanently etched into my memory. I will remember running around those levels and blasting demons until the day I die. Great memories!
I have a similar situation, where I was exposed to this game through my uncle.
We used to live couple hours away from my grandma. My uncle lived with her in the basement. We used to go up every holiday and long weekends to visit.
My first exposure to gaming was through him. He had a Sega Genesis. Got to experience sonic, mortal combat, golf game (can't remember the name) and street fighter.
Every time we visited, I was closed up on his TV and Sega in my grandmas basement.
One day, he got a computer. Pretty sure it was a Gateway too. He showed me this new game he got, Doom. I will always remember just how amazed I was with the game.
Like you mentioned, it had a creepy vibe to it. Playing it by myself in my grandma's basement, the game monster noises would freak me out sometimes.
Honestly, it's thanks to uncle that I'm a gamer today. Definitely don't game as much as I like now, being married and 2 kids with full time job. But man, do I miss that nostalgia. Innocent times with fun games.
I was a console kid, and I remember seeing all the Doom screenshots in gaming magazines and just desperately wanting to play it. Then, my best friend got the 32X (attachment for the megadrive) with Doom. Playing it for the first time was just one of those core moments for me. I was always a gamer, but that solidified it for me in such an essential and fundamental way that it's difficult to articulate.
It was an iconic, legendary, and unforgettable game indeed. I still have many childhood memories that came to my mind about how I spent on the computer all day long while playing DooM. Happy anniversary to all DooM fans and the community. That's a really great franchise.
My first PC also came 'pre installed' with Doom! Spent so many hours on it, plus hundreds more with DEU (Doom editor utilities). Good times! I also remember hanging out on MIRC until the very early hours waiting for John Romero to pop in and drop qtest.exe (Quake test).. RIP my DX4 100 when that came out.
I was 13 in 93, so I was the perfect age to play this game. I experienced it through Sega 32X. For it being what it was, it was a hell of a game on that console. Thanks for the doom memories and nostalgia.I might pick it up and give it a try. Again.
"I'm not very cool." Naw man, you're absolutely a cool dude. We appreciate what you're doing here, keep on keepin' on!
Same story here Jake, back in early 2000 my uncle bought a PC and he had Doom installed. Essentially Doom was my first game, I was around 7-8yrs old.. Go crazy
Been playing mainly games like Quake II Remastered, Ion Fury Aftershock lately. Something about these old style games just feels so right.
I'd always had commadore, vic-20, C64, Amiga 500 & 1200 but the moment I saw Doom in 94 (and day of the tentacle in full voice on CDROM)I went out and bought a dx2-66 pc and have never stopped playing it, my new year tradition is to speed run through it. I still have wav files I spent recording off of VHS tapes to use in Doom audio studio, plenty of Ace Ventura, Beavis & Butthead etc. it is still a thing of beauty and my favourite game of all time.
I randomly wandered into Sears at the local mall, and one of the employees in the electronics department had installed Doom on one of the display computers, along with some mods (the demon looked like Pac-Man), then I found one of my sister's friends had Doom on his PC. When I was able to get a new computer one I made a point to get Ultimate Doom for as soon as I could. When I think of gaming in the 90s three games stand out as reflecting my experience: Doom, Hexen (which used the Doom engine), and SimCity. Decades later, my first attempt to make my own 3D game was heavily inspired by Doom.
I first encountered Doom around 1995, when a shareware version of it mysteriously made the rounds of the computers at the campus I went to for TAFE. We weren't allowed to play any games on them, and teachers kept deleting the Doom files, but they kept popping back up. It still holds up VERY fucking well now, too.
My very earliest gaming memory is from Doom. It was 1994, I was 4 years old, and my dad got the shareware version on his work laptop. He would put God Mode on (so I didn't get scared or die constantly) and let me loose.
Excellent video : ) Glad I found your chan through FPSecond.
Used to play through the shareware Doom 1 copy that came with my dad's work computer in absurdum, mostly with friends from the neighborhood. Being like 8-9 at the time, ergo not particularly great at anything, playing that kind of game could even be sorta delegated between two- one controlling, the other helping, heh.
Same computer came with wolf3d, monkey island 1, Loom and some other stuff that really got my interest peaked.
39 today, still crap at games, and IT pro for a living. ^^
My neighbor had Doom and Wolf3D on her computer in 1993 and I'd go over there and play on her PC after school. Our family got a higher end 486 with sound the next year and a buddy brought over Doom shareware on two floppies - it was the very best gaming experience I'd ever had up to that point. We "found" the full version on a BBS not long after. To this day I rank Doom as my favorite video game ever, on any platform. Nothing really comes close (Half-Life maybe)
I'm floored that DOOM still gets new campaigns. I have it on Switch since it's perfect for pick up and play, and it just never gets old. Best $2 I ever spent.