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Fifteen Years Of Doom
The Ballad of "Robert Jones": Arcade Tickets Were His Currency
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12/10/08
Now... XBLA Doom 2. Make it so, MS.
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Inevitably, I started to cry. I remember being bitterly disappointed because I knew that game was supposed to be totally so cool and I had been looking forward to this thing for days on end and now I was just too scared to keep on playing. I remember feeling really ashamed of myself for not being brave enough to go on. So I cried.
After a while, my big sister came into the room to find out what was wrong. She figured out what had happened, gave me a hug, then sat down beside me. I guess she didn't know what to do either, because nothing happened for a little while. Finally she picked up the controller and started the game from the beginning. And then we played that fucker, together. For hours. She didn't even like games, and being a teenager I'm pretty sure she had other things she wanted to do at the time. But she stayed and played my game with me and then after that I wasn't scared of it anymore. That afternoon is simultaneously one of the worst and best memories of my childhood.
Happy anniversary, Doom.
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@RockyRan: No again.
Space Hulk was first.
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but yes, i agree, they definitey knew what they were doing, good game elements have been lost in translation over the years.
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the games that murdered home computers before Doom were Falcon (flight sim) and Links LS (golf).
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BTW, back in the day, all the computers in my school, in my home and in my friend´s houses were capable of running Doom smoothly, i never met someone incapable of playing it in it´s computer...
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Definitely revolutionary at the time, and I don't think anyone back then realised we were basically seeing the basic setup for a HUGE genre of games. That said, I really don't care for FPS games and how derivative they've become, but Doom is a true classic. (and it's hard to remember before Wolfenstein 3D/Doom, when a first person perspective was nearly unheard of)
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I miss the old PC days.
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I think I still have them in a box somewhere, at least the first two. They did indeed get odd, but the first couple were pretty decent fun reads.
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I still think that's mostly accurate. <_<
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That said, I've since played Doom, and it was indeed a fun game. /shrug
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also, the shareware disk i bought at fedco had a virus on it and destroyed my lovable 386.
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