Doom

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Why do so many people idolise the game “Doom”? It came out in the ‘90s and uses archaic sprite technology that was rendered obsolete by the game “Quake”! Yes, it can be creepy to play, but I'd say that Quake and Doom 3 are scarier!

 

[JackiesHubby]

Why do so many people idolise the game “Doom”? It came out in the ‘90s and uses archaic sprite technology that was rendered obsolete by the game “Quake”! Yes, it can be creepy to play, but I'd say that Quake and Doom 3 are scarier!

Because it was the first commercial game that I ever paid for. It came on 3 x 3.5 floppy disks (which I still have). It was a very immersive experience with the sounds and the surprises and you could lose a whole day playing it without knowing time had passed. It was casually tounge in cheek when it came to the sarcastic humor. All other games of that time mimicked it until the first CD game came out that was the most popular which was Myst.
<yep Jackie's hubby is an IT guy.

 

[DodgerGirl]

My dad and I used to play Doom on our Nintendo 64 and I was actually real good at Doom and could beat the first level easily but when you get to the 10th level it becomes hard and some of the monsters are scary but the end credits music is spooky

 

[JackiesHubby]

My dad and I used to play Doom on our Nintendo 64 and I was actually real good at Doom and could beat the first level easily but when you get to the 10th level it becomes hard and some of the monsters are scary but the end credits music is spooky

That is so cool. I never knew they had a console version of Doom.

 

[BrianL]

That is so cool. I never knew they had a console version of Doom.

I'm actually sure there is a games platform that doesn't have Doom - either officially or not. Doom was even on the SNES. I think Doom 64 may have been a unique game though - some of the console versions aren't straight ports but are basically similar.

 

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

There was even a Dreamcast port of Doom. For my tastes, the N64 version was best. The 32X port was rather rubbish. I can't recall if it was the 32X port or the Saturn port, but it was the worst, slow, choppy, poor resolution… the back story is that a lone developer was given the tast of porting the game over a very short space of time, so the fact that they got anything out of the door was legend enough!