Doom turns 20 today

[RealSNR]

December 10, 1993.

The Beethoven of video games. The standard by which all FPS games were judged for more than a decade. And continue to be judged to this day.

Makes you feel old, eh?

[Hammock Parties]

Doom was such a cultural icon that my Jehovah's Witness pappy, who was one of the congregation's ministers, played it at work.

required reading

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Doom was such a cultural icon that my Jehovah's Witness pappy, who was one of the congregation's ministers, played it at work.

required reading

BRB. Gonna go buy that book.

[QuikSsurfer]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

Doom was such a cultural icon that my Jehovah's Witness pappy, who was one of the congregation's ministers, played it at work.

required reading

I'll second this. Fantastic book.

[RealSNR]

There's a guy right now who's streaming a playthrough of Doom, Doom 2, TNT Evilution, and Plutonia. A 24-hour stream. He's insane, too.

He finished Doom awhile ago. Now on Map 11 of Doom 2.

http://www.twitch.tv/altimamantoid

[kepp]

Originally Posted by SNR

There's a guy right now who's streaming a playthrough of Doom, Doom 2, TNT Evilution, and Plutonia. A 24-hour stream. He's insane, too.

He finished Doom awhile ago. Now on Map 11 of Doom 2.

http://www.twitch.tv/altimamantoid

Sounds like he's going a little batty.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by kepp

Sounds like he's going a little batty.

Playing through TNT Evilution on no sleep will do that to anybody

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by SNR

There's a guy right now who's streaming a playthrough of Doom, Doom 2, TNT Evilution, and Plutonia. A 24-hour stream. He's insane, too.

He finished Doom awhile ago. Now on Map 11 of Doom 2.

http://www.twitch.tv/altimamantoid

I watched for about 10 minutes. The dude is good.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Flybone McTimmerson

I watched for about 10 minutes. The dude is good.

He's got a channel where he plays each map as a separate video. He's done all the Doom games. When he gets to the impossible maps like Map 32 of Plutonia, my jaw just drops.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by SNR

He's got a channel where he plays each map as a separate video. He's done all the Doom games. When he gets to the impossible maps like Map 32 of Plutonia, my jaw just drops.

I was watching on my phone. Do you have a link to that channel?

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by Flybone McTimmerson

I was watching on my phone. Do you have a link to that channel?

Here's the playlist link. You'll have to scroll down a bit, but you should be able to find them all on there

http://www.youtube.com/user/AltimaMa...ow=grid&view=1

[otherstar]

Originally Posted by SNR

He's got a channel where he plays each map as a separate video. He's done all the Doom games. When he gets to the impossible maps like Map 32 of Plutonia, my jaw just drops.

Dude is real good...he's breezing though the levels...he knows his shit! Easiest way to beat a Cyber Demon is to keep moving and lob missiles at it from a long ways away!

[Hammock Parties]

The book is awesome. It's basically the history of Id Software.

John Carmack is one of my personal heroes, and I live my life partially by his ethos.

[Simply Red]

Originally Posted by Pam Oliver's Forehead

It's basically the history of Id Software.

that's what my 'Ex' sells.

[007]

Man, I played the hell out of that game back when it was first released. So much fun.