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

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/masters-of-doom-video-game-history.jpg

[RealSNR]

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

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/masters-of-doom-video-game-history.jpg

BRB. Gonna go buy that 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

[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.

[007]

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

[ping2000]

John Carmack was in my Boy Scout troop briefly. Troop 102. He was a weird kid as I remember. Spent all of summer camp playing Dungeons and Dragons.

[Katipan]

Castle Wolfenstein was better.

[Simply Red]

It's basically the history of Id Software.


that's what my 'Ex' sells.

[bevischief]

Damn....

[KC_Lee]

And I thought it was shocking when Half Life turned 15 years old earlier this year. Might just have to fire up DosBox and play some Doom & Doom2 today.

[notorious]

486/33mhz FTW!

[Trivers]

Is there a better sound than of a pump shotgun blasting away at a room full of Imps???

[Trivers]

486/33mhz FTW!

With 2MB of 70ms RAM!

[007]

With 2MB of 70ms RAM!

Doom required 4mb

This was when a 4mb stick of RAM cost $90 and a 210 HDD was nearly $400 and was considered HUGE. LMAO

[ChiTown]

I feel really old. What's Doom?

[Dayze]

never heard of it. (seriously)

[sfuria]

Its a first person shooter. Probably one of the first ones and after which most of todays first person shooters such as CoD and Battlefield are based after.


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[ptlyon]

Got it on diskette somewhere.

Unfortunately laptops don't take a diskette anymore...

[ping2000]

Got it on diskette somewhere.

Unfortunately laptops don't take a diskette anymore...

I still have a copy of SIM CGA on a 5 1/4 floppy. Used it to run games on my Leading Edge Model D that had a monochrome monitor. Yes, I am old.

[gosampel]

I use to run games like this on my server online in the garage but it only attracts a few older guys then they want to talk to me about how to server one then my server dies so I stopped running em. With the steam platform

[KC_Lee]

Got it on diskette somewhere.

Unfortunately laptops don't take a diskette anymore...

1) Go here http://www.dosbox.com/ and download DosBox

2) Go here http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page for instructions on how to use DosBox

3) Go here http://www.myabandonware.com/ and download Doom

4) Have Fun!

[Rausch]

Castle Wolfenstein was better.

This...

[Buehler445]

I use to run games like this on my server online in the garage but it only attracts a few older guys then they want to talk to me about how to server one then my server dies so I stopped running em. With the steam platform

My grandpa built an 8088 that I played a whole mess of Kroz games on.

FOR THE WIN

http://www.myabandonware.com/media/captures/C/caverns-of-kroz/caverns-of-kroz_4.png

[morphius]

This...
Not true. Being able to play with your friends, huge improvement...

[Wallcrawler]

http://makeameme.org/media/created/this-IS-DOOM.jpg

[RealSNR]

Doom Guy > Master Chief

A shotgun blast to the face is an instant death in Halo. Not in Doom.

[kepp]

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]

Sounds like he's going a little batty.

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

[ChiTown]

I am REALLY glad I am not a part of the video game generation.

Thanks, Bin Laden!

[Katipan]

Not true. Being able to play with your friends, huge improvement...

Maybe with your friends, but mine liked Barbie.

[ptlyon]

1) Go here http://www.dosbox.com/ and download DosBox

2) Go here http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Main_Page for instructions on how to use DosBox

3) Go here http://www.myabandonware.com/ and download Doom

4) Have Fun!

Thanks Lee!

[KC_Lee]

Thanks Lee!

Anytime. :thumb:

[ptlyon]

Anytime. :thumb:

Now, what you gonna do for all the other shit I got on diskette? ;)

Leisure Suit Larry FTW!

[KC_Lee]

Now, what you gonna do for all the other shit I got on diskette? ;)

Leisure Suit Larry FTW!

Just got to do some searching. :D

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards-2wt

[ptlyon]

Just got to do some searching. :D

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards-2wt

Thanks again :)

[SuperChief]

Blood (http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:Blood) FTW! A Monolith product that kicked ass.

[TimBone]

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.

[Mr. Laz]

LOVE THAT GAME!!

I still remember getting freaked out when the burning Archvile started glowing and you had to run you ass off or die. LMAO

Seeing the wall slowly lift up with that mechanic spider brain thingy

cannon wielding Cyberdemon the size of a house

http://www.gifti.me/i/Tv4A3q.png



awesome sauce!

[RealSNR]

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]

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]

LOVE THAT GAME!!

I still remember getting freaked out when the burning Archvile started glowing and you had to run you ass off or die. LMAO

Seeing the wall slowly lift up with that mechanic spider brain thingy

cannon wielding Cyberdemon the size of a house

http://www.gifti.me/i/Tv4A3q.png



awesome sauce!
Spider Masterminds gave me the creeps. I probably had nightmares about those things when I started to play the game myself in 4th grade instead of just watching my dad do it.

[RealSNR]

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/AltimaMantoid/videos?flow=grid&view=1

[otherstar]

LOVE THAT GAME!!

I still remember getting freaked out when the burning Archvile started glowing and you had to run you ass off or die. LMAO

Seeing the wall slowly lift up with that mechanic spider brain thingy

cannon wielding Cyberdemon the size of a house

http://www.gifti.me/i/Tv4A3q.png



awesome sauce!

That's when you type in IDDQD and IDFA, hit 6 or 7 and blow the crap out of the BMU (Big, Mean, and Ugly) in God Mode! o:-)

[otherstar]

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!

[TimBone]

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/AltimaMantoid/videos?flow=grid&view=1

Thanks

[nstygma]

loved a good dial-up death match
played the hell out of quake and duke nukem too

[QuikSsurfer]

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

http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/masters-of-doom-video-game-history.jpg

I'll second this. Fantastic book.

[RealSNR]

The dude just started doing Plutonia. And that's going on like... 20 hours without sleep and playing all previous 3 Doom games in that span.

Ridiculous.

[The Franchise]

I played it but was never really big into it like I was with Quake.

[sfuria]

Just got to do some searching. :D

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards-2wt

A lot of these older games you can actually just play in your browser instead of having to download a file and set up DOSbox. For instance I like to play my old commodore 64 games in a browser here:

http://c64i.com/

And when I have a hankering for playing Super Mario or other Nintendo games, I go here:

http://nintendo8.com/game/314/super_mario_brothers_3/

There's also links to play old Dos games, SNES and gameboy games.

[loochy]

I played it but was never really big into it like I was with Quake.

Dude! A fellow Quaker! I was pretty big into Team Fortress.

[sfuria]

Dude! A fellow Quaker! I was pretty big into Team Fortress.

Nice! I play team fortress with the guys at work during our lunch hour.

[SLAG]

Dude! A fellow Quaker! I was pretty big into Team Fortress.

My username is from Quake - I'm a Doomer and a Quaker - I stopped after QII

[Mr. Laz]

My username is from Quake - I'm a Doomer and a Quaker - I stopped after QII
They changed Quaker after a while

Quake 3 might be when it changed

I stopped then too

[loochy]

Nice! I play team fortress with the guys at work during our lunch hour.

The Team Fortress for Quake I? People still play that?

[morphius]

I played it but was never really big into it like I was with Quake.
Didn't enjoy quake until CTF with a grappling gone. Fun times...

[loochy]

My username is from Quake - I'm a Doomer and a Quaker - I stopped after QII

Ah, I remember the days of calling each other over and over while trying to get a good connection so we could deathmatch.

[KC_Lee]

A lot of these older games you can actually just play in your browser instead of having to download a file and set up DOSbox. For instance I like to play my old commodore 64 games in a browser here:

http://c64i.com/


Aw man!! Bruce Lee & Blue Max!! Used to play the hell out of those back in the day.

[Contrarian]

After the Doom and Duke Nukem days I was a hardcore Unreal Tournament MASTA!!!
Uhm....Quake sucked!

[QuikSsurfer]

My username is from Quake - I'm a Doomer and a Quaker - I stopped after QII

Quake III Arena was the shit.

[Ceej]

The dude with the YouTube videos sounds like Zach Galifnakis on the Campaign. LMAO

[nstygma]

friends and I dispersed in various parts of school would play network quake to pass time. we'd use this patch that gave us new weapons and would spawn bots like Boba Fett and OJ Simpson(with knife) and we'd battle each other and the bots. i think it was called Killer Quake Patch

[Imon Yourside]

friends and I dispersed in various parts of school would play network quake to pass time. we'd use this patch that gave us new weapons and would spawn bots like Boba Fett and OJ Simpson(with knife) and we'd battle each other and the bots. i think it was called Killer Quake Patch

I loved the Jimmy Johnson enemy from Doom. Perfect hair even with a rocket launcher shot to the face. I designed so many levels for that game....sigh those were the days.

[Psyko Tek]

Doom required 4mb

This was when a 4mb stick of RAM cost $90 and a 210 HD was nearly $400 and was considered HUGE. LMAO

i gotta 154 MB HD the size of a brick\I just keep around to shoe the kids

also have a shirt that says I was gaming before you were born
with an Atari 2600 on it

[Imon Yourside]

i gotta 154 MB HD the size of a brick\I just keep around to shoe the kids

also have a shirt that says I was gaming before you were born
with an Atari 2600 on it

I still have a 20mb hard drive...was the shizznitz back in the day.

[007]

I still have a 20mb hard drive...was the shizznitz back in the day.

Still remember when I got my first 4gb drive and wondered how I would ever fill it up. LMAO

[nstygma]

I loved the Jimmy Johnson enemy from Doom. Perfect hair even with a rocket launcher shot to the face. I designed so many levels for that game....sigh those were the days.i actually had a class where my only requirement was to create and play Duke Nukem levels. gotta love the kc school district! :eek:

[nstygma]

Still remember when I got my first 4gb drive and wondered how I would ever fill it up. LMAOi uncovered some old SCSI drives a while ago. brought back memories

[007]

i uncovered some old SCSI drives a while ago. brought back memories

I still have a machine running a PCI video card. NOt PCIe. Not AGP. just PCI.

[ping2000]

I still have a machine running a PCI video card. NOt PCIe. Not AGP. just PCI.

I still have a Timex Sinclair. (8k of memory, membrane keyboard, hooks to your TV for a display, and VisiCalc you ran from a cassette player), a Commodore 64 complete with huge ass floppy drive, a Leading Edge Model D with a Yellow monochrome monitor and a 20 mb Kalok hard drive that cost more than the computer did.

[007]

I still have a Timex Sinclair. (8k of memory, membrane keyboard, hooks to your TV for a display, and VisiCalc you ran from a cassette player), a Commodore 64 complete with huge ass floppy drive, a Leading Edge Model D with a Yellow monochrome monitor and a 20 mb Kalok hard drive that cost more than the computer did.

Ahhhh, reminds me of the old 8088 and TI994A days. Nostalgia.:thumb:

[Simply Red]

I still have a Timex Sinclair. (8k of memory, membrane keyboard, hooks to your TV for a display, and VisiCalc you ran from a cassette player), a Commodore 64 complete with huge ass floppy drive, a Leading Edge Model D with a Yellow monochrome monitor and a 20 mb Kalok hard drive that cost more than the computer did.

That's good stuff right there.

[ping2000]

That's good stuff right there.

I remember taking a Basic programming class at Shawnee Mission South. They had a DG "mini" computer hooked to a bunch of dumb terminals. The machine took up half the room.

[Simply Red]

I remember taking a Basic programming class at Shawnee Mission South. They had a DG "mini" computer hooked to a bunch of dumb terminals. The machine took up half the room.

how about IBM Green -OR!- 'Amber' monitors!!!!!?

[Imon Yourside]

i actually had a class where my only requirement was to create and play Duke Nukem levels. gotta love the kc school district! :eek:

HAHA! The only thing I remember was playing on the Apple 2's at school. I brought Aztec and Hard Hat Mack and got in trouble for playing during class. I was supposed to be playing Oregon Trail.

[007]

HAHA! The only thing I remember was playing on the Apple 2's at school. I brought Aztec and Hard Hat Mack and got in trouble for playing during class. I was supposed to be playing Oregon Trail.

Caves of Ice

[ping2000]

how about IBM Green -OR!- 'Amber' monitors!!!!!?

My Leading Edge had an amber monitor. I ran SIM CGA to play games.

[otherstar]

I still have a Timex Sinclair. (8k of memory, membrane keyboard, hooks to your TV for a display, and VisiCalc you ran from a cassette player), a Commodore 64 complete with huge ass floppy drive, a Leading Edge Model D with a Yellow monochrome monitor and a 20 mb Kalok hard drive that cost more than the computer did.

I had a Timex Sinclair as a kid, but never got it to work right, so Dad took it back at my request. We did have a Commodore 64 that I lots of fun learning Basic on. Had even more fun with the Radio Shack TRS-80's in High School (Trash 80's FTW)!

[JD10367]

Castle Wolfenstein was better.

Agreed. And before both was "Pathways Into Darkness" by Bungie for the Mac. Bungie then released THE best FPS for that period: "Marathon".

[sfuria]

Still remember when I got my first 4gb drive and wondered how I would ever fill it up. LMAO

And today I wonder the same about 4tb drives, and 10 yrs from now I'll look back and laugh at myself for wondering how I could ever fill up such a small drive.