I am 50 and I think our generation had the best digital and analog transition. Mind blowing how far we have come in terms of technology. I’ve bought Doom on every device I ever owned.
Yeah. I’m a younger millennial, but I see how Gen X really saw an unprecedented leap forward in computing technology that led to the internet, early AI and LLMs, VR and AR, and a lot of other neat stuff that was considered sci-fi just 50 years ago. Some of the early stuff was the work of Boomer ingenuity, while the latter part of this was the blood, sweat, and tears of Xers. Thank God for you guys!
My dad say the same thing (he's near 60) and I have to agree with him, he started with a single telephone for the whole block in he's old hood to now being able to pay things without even move the bed lol
That white box minitower is the epitome of 90's computers that were either home built or built by a computer shop. My favorite feature was that the mhz display on the front was not indicative of the actual clock speed but rather which jumpers one set on the back of the speed display. thank you so much for the memories!
I had a PC with the same case in 1994. Originally it was a 486/33 and I changed the processor to a 486 DX2/66 but I never managed to get "66" to display with the jumpers (just "68")
Doom changed the course of my life. No idea how, at 10 years old, I convinced my Mom to buy it for me (the Shareware version anyway), but she did and since 1994 my life went another direction. I learned how to use, manipulate and fix PC's because I became a PC gamer and that lead me to the life I live today; without Doom, I'm not sure I'd be where I am today.
Yeah I got offered a job at a marketing company that was *really* upmarket, the car park was full of brand new Mercedes and BMW's, they had a pool table in the staff room, etc. All because I'd learned how to use a PC for the basic and sole intention of playing Wolfenstein and Doom and Xcom etc on an underpowered PC back in the day. Had to learn how to manipulate the RAM and squeeze all the performance out of it. Later I had to learn to set up networks in DOS for multiple machines at Quake LAN parties. I took their aptitude test (cos I had zero computing "qualifications") and came 2nd out of 50 applicants. They offered me a position but I ended up turning it down, the entire place felt way too intense, people were unfriendly and I was used to working outdoors with my hands by that point. Also, in the back of my mind, I knew I'd hate it despite the high pay. Computers for me were ALWAYS about relaxing, and gaming. I didn't enjoy the technical stuff, it was just something I learned as a means to an end : MORE FRAMERATE IN GAMES! XD
For me, playing the shareware lead me to joining the Doom modding community, then modding other games, and after many years eventually going into a game development career, where I am now. Long live Doom!
Same, In 1995 I had to convince my dad to upgrade the family computer (486/33 SX) from 4 MB RAM to 8 MB so I could run Doom shareware. For better or worse, I ended up becoming a programmer (love programming at home and hate it as a career haha)
Legitimately, I think preserving this technology is so important. Way more so than consoles, PC gamers throw away the old almost as soon as something new comes along, and nobody considers the history (and sometimes literally the software and hardware) they've lost along the way when replacing it with something different.
I remember playing Doom on MS-DOS back in the days on my Packard Bell 486. I upgraded that machine from 8 mb to 32 mb with a Soundblaster 32 soundcard and installed a 52K modem in it for the hell of it. Never used it for anything but thought it was cool to have. Anyways, thank you for the memories. Doom and retro computers will live in our hearts forever.
I remember playing this game on the computer it was a rainy day outside and I used love playing doom during the rainy days while I was younger! My favorite doom game ever to play is Final doom Plutonia Experiment. I still love theses games to this day and I’m 36.
These are some of my favourite videos on TH-cam/Instagram (latter is where I first found them.) As someone who is turning 40 this year it seems like a lifetime ago since I owned a PC like this and honestly emulators and playing them on a modern PC setup on a tv or desktop monitor just doesn't give the same feeling, so I am livinng vicariously through you when I watch these LOL! Honestly awesome content! Can't wait to see more!
I had a 386 and ran Windows 3.1. Most of my games didn't run in Windows yet, so I'd have to exit windows to start up Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Street Fighter 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and The 7th Guest.
Loving this. Fun fact: My dad had the shareware version of Doom (E1) installed on our computer. The guy who did it left a save in E1M8 with IDDQD and no clip turned on. I loaded it and, not knowing what cheats were, thought you gained the ability to go through walls through plot progression. I also thought the "arms" at the bottom (your arsenal) were how many arms you had grown (it starts at 2). That along with the glowing eyes from God Mode made me think you turned into a mutant as you progressed through the game.
an absolute gem of a system and display of its capabilities hit that nostalgia spot just right i grew up on systems like these that were made obsolete in a few months time
What an excellent setup, especially that monitor. I feel like Doom ran better than this on my 486 DX-50, but I might be remembering my later AMD 120 MHz "486."
The only thing I miss from those days are the crt curved angled monitors my laptop runs just a smooth as my old towers did but the screens these days are not great
I had a TRASH 486-SLC-33Mhz (the SLC was basically a 386 with a handful of 486 extensions) that barely ran Doom. Had to play in a postage stamp sized window. But my friend had an insanely fast DX2-80Mhz with a Tseng Labs ET4000AX and 8MB RAM, so we played a lot on his machine. I spent 4 months convincing my Dad that I needed a 486-DX2-66 CPU or I couldn't do my homework properly, and he finally caved in, and the difference was icredible. Got it just in time for Doom 2's release! But with that new chip I could play through all the best games of the time that I'd collected but resented playing on the SLC - Raptor : Call Of The Shadows, The Legacy, Heretic, XCOM 2, etc. There were a few games that ran well on the SLC though! Older stuff like 4D Sports Driving (aka Stunts), Wolfenstein + Spear Of Destiny, Dune 2 etc.
@@FloofusTheCat Yeah it was really a great game of its genre, rivalling the arcades and easily beating the console games of that type. I got it from a computer fair same time I got Doom, but they both ran really poorly on that SLC machine. Still managed to finish it though! Wonder why they didn't make a sequel? I didn't see another great shooter like that on the PC until years later with Starmonkey. But by then I had the MAME emulator and was playing Dodonpachi and everything else.
I dont know how I played Doom with only keyborad!! Nowdays seems to me very uncomfortable!! Well, I played a Gzdoom version with freeview mouse, manual aiming ,and wasd keys, a very different approach!!
So cool. I’m not getting rid of any of my old stuff. There’s this obsession in this modern world to throw everything away and get new stuff but it’s just wrong
I remember reading the magazine reviews in early 1994, ordering the game, eagerly waiting for it to be delivered and then playing it in the evenings and late in to the night on my 286 PC with headphones at a loud volume.
In 1993 I had AM386DX 40MHZ with I think 8MB of ram. Doom from what I remember ran fine. But in 1994 or 95 we got a AM486 DX4- 100 with 36MB of ram and Doom and everything else ran wonderfully. Yes it ran Windows 95, but everything was great.
Despite all the amazing technology and graphics in today's billion dollar gaming industry, nothing comes close to the level of entertainment that one gets from playing 90s pc games. Why is that? Sure nostalgic play a big part, but I think there's more to it.
I still play all shooters with arrow keys and some numpad keys. Even in Overwatch or Counter-Strike I've rebound all keys to the right side of the keyboard lol. Started in 1993, never changed my way.
@@d_vibe-swe not really, the manual that came with the game actually recommended playing with a mouse, it's just that keyboard based controls were the norm for PC games so the arrow keys were the default
@@brineeggliang5460 Well to be fair, the default mouse controls in Doom were pretty weird. Moving the mouse forward and back also made your character walk forward and back, strafing by holding the alt key was extremely weird especially combined with holding the mouse etc. Compared to this, the keyboard only controls were familiar (as you said) and quite ergonomic, so many people just happily stuck with that.
It was a very elite thing to be playing on PC at the time rather than PlayStation. But now as an adult with money I suppose I have become an elite in that sense.
Nice video and what a desktop PC. About the gameplay part, it would have been better to play the levels the normal way, no cheats, in not too rough or hurt me plenty, difficulty. I think no one is expecting you to be good playing with keyboard only.
This setup is much nicer than what I had in '93, lol.
No shit.
You could probably get this whole setup today for what, $30?
@@strangemarkings you should try that and see how much of that setup you can get for $30.
@@strangemarkings even just the CRT monitor can get sold for $400+
I tried running this on a 386 sx16. Was like two years before I had a good 486 in the house, just in time for it to barely run quake the year after.
This is what we did back in the day. No social media, no streaming, just DOOM.
I am 50 and I think our generation had the best digital and analog transition. Mind blowing how far we have come in terms of technology. I’ve bought Doom on every device I ever owned.
Yeah. I’m a younger millennial, but I see how Gen X really saw an unprecedented leap forward in computing technology that led to the internet, early AI and LLMs, VR and AR, and a lot of other neat stuff that was considered sci-fi just 50 years ago.
Some of the early stuff was the work of Boomer ingenuity, while the latter part of this was the blood, sweat, and tears of Xers. Thank God for you guys!
My dad say the same thing (he's near 60) and I have to agree with him, he started with a single telephone for the whole block in he's old hood to now being able to pay things without even move the bed lol
Yes thane
i m 49.
And doom is so excellent.
my first pc was a 286, in 1992.
when i was 8, an artari 800xl.
i remember playing pacman during hours ....
The computer world was so new, fresh, and exciting then. I was just a kid, but I still miss those days.
Thanks for the awesome nostalgia!
That white box minitower is the epitome of 90's computers that were either home built or built by a computer shop. My favorite feature was that the mhz display on the front was not indicative of the actual clock speed but rather which jumpers one set on the back of the speed display. thank you so much for the memories!
I had a PC with the same case in 1994. Originally it was a 486/33 and I changed the processor to a 486 DX2/66 but I never managed to get "66" to display with the jumpers (just "68")
Doom changed the course of my life. No idea how, at 10 years old, I convinced my Mom to buy it for me (the Shareware version anyway), but she did and since 1994 my life went another direction. I learned how to use, manipulate and fix PC's because I became a PC gamer and that lead me to the life I live today; without Doom, I'm not sure I'd be where I am today.
Yeah I got offered a job at a marketing company that was *really* upmarket, the car park was full of brand new Mercedes and BMW's, they had a pool table in the staff room, etc. All because I'd learned how to use a PC for the basic and sole intention of playing Wolfenstein and Doom and Xcom etc on an underpowered PC back in the day. Had to learn how to manipulate the RAM and squeeze all the performance out of it. Later I had to learn to set up networks in DOS for multiple machines at Quake LAN parties. I took their aptitude test (cos I had zero computing "qualifications") and came 2nd out of 50 applicants. They offered me a position but I ended up turning it down, the entire place felt way too intense, people were unfriendly and I was used to working outdoors with my hands by that point. Also, in the back of my mind, I knew I'd hate it despite the high pay. Computers for me were ALWAYS about relaxing, and gaming. I didn't enjoy the technical stuff, it was just something I learned as a means to an end : MORE FRAMERATE IN GAMES! XD
me too, but in a modern era.
For me, playing the shareware lead me to joining the Doom modding community, then modding other games, and after many years eventually going into a game development career, where I am now. Long live Doom!
Same, In 1995 I had to convince my dad to upgrade the family computer (486/33 SX) from 4 MB RAM to 8 MB so I could run Doom shareware. For better or worse, I ended up becoming a programmer (love programming at home and hate it as a career haha)
@@TastelessSoftware Any hobby turned to a job sucks!
Legitimately, I think preserving this technology is so important. Way more so than consoles, PC gamers throw away the old almost as soon as something new comes along, and nobody considers the history (and sometimes literally the software and hardware) they've lost along the way when replacing it with something different.
I remember playing Doom on MS-DOS back in the days on my Packard Bell 486. I upgraded that machine from 8 mb to 32 mb with a Soundblaster 32 soundcard and installed a 52K modem in it for the hell of it. Never used it for anything but thought it was cool to have. Anyways, thank you for the memories. Doom and retro computers will live in our hearts forever.
First time i played this game was around 1997-1999 and that was my great childhood i ever had.
I remember playing this game on the computer it was a rainy day outside and I used love playing doom during the rainy days while I was younger! My favorite doom game ever to play is Final doom Plutonia Experiment. I still love theses games to this day and I’m 36.
I just love old technology
Ty for sharing these memories
These are some of my favourite videos on TH-cam/Instagram (latter is where I first found them.) As someone who is turning 40 this year it seems like a lifetime ago since I owned a PC like this and honestly emulators and playing them on a modern PC setup on a tv or desktop monitor just doesn't give the same feeling, so I am livinng vicariously through you when I watch these LOL! Honestly awesome content! Can't wait to see more!
90's computer with CompUSA plate took me back, like '95 back! I recall Ultimate DOOM/DOOM II back to back in my Compaq Preserio.
I had a 386 and ran Windows 3.1. Most of my games didn't run in Windows yet, so I'd have to exit windows to start up Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Street Fighter 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and The 7th Guest.
Run DOS without starting windows first. If you exit from windows to dos it is much much slower.
@@De-M-oN NOW you tell him
@@roflBeck yes! so that he knows what he did all the years wrong back then 😂
@@De-M-oNOr just skip Windows and use the dos shell for file control stuff.
The old and good IDDQD - IDKFA... LOL
IDDQD an IDKFA for life!
IDSPISPOPD
IDCLIP and you cross walls!
IDDT gave you the full automap, IDDT again put actors on the map. IDBEHOLD gave you powerups.
Loving this. Fun fact: My dad had the shareware version of Doom (E1) installed on our computer. The guy who did it left a save in E1M8 with IDDQD and no clip turned on. I loaded it and, not knowing what cheats were, thought you gained the ability to go through walls through plot progression. I also thought the "arms" at the bottom (your arsenal) were how many arms you had grown (it starts at 2). That along with the glowing eyes from God Mode made me think you turned into a mutant as you progressed through the game.
My god it's beautiful 😢
an absolute gem of a system and display of its capabilities hit that nostalgia spot just right i grew up on systems like these that were made obsolete in a few months time
I had that exact same ViewSonic monitor. It was amazing!
You were a legend if you had this in the 90s
Feels like I’m back in the mid-90s, watching my older brother of 8 years playing this on his 486. What a trip.
That noises are so nostalgic ♥
I remember playng Wolf 3d in a black and white monitor lol
Ox, so cool small desktop! Nam Nam 🥰🥰🥰
Играл когда-то очень давно на 286-м в Doom)) Потом на 486-м играл в Doom) Вот времена были, помню) Таким казался мир огромным (с)
Aahhh nostalgia.... Good times nice set up by the way
Glorious days
This brings back so many memorys... first time Doom was jawdropping, then addictive 😂
It must be, I still play/mod it to this day. I'm loving Legacy of Rust.
@@eiyukabesame! I’ve been mapping for years now and I can’t see myself stopping any time soon, or ever really!
@@n00ba14
I love this monstres screams, I played this in 94 here in Brasil
Did the same thing when I was 15 on a nearly identical PC. Good times.
OMG. Just watching the computer boot up was nostalgic.
Sooooo nice build! And all those sounds - I love it!
Oh my goodness! I have that exact same case! It was my very first computer! Still have it! So much good memories! ❤❤❤
Love the retro desktop setup! I definitely would've used a crunchy PS/2 ball mouse.
I love that case... next time I see one of those on eBay I got get one!
I used to play like this ❤
Who remembers Treasure Mountain? Odell Down Under? Oregon Trail? Glider? Number Munchers?
What an excellent setup, especially that monitor. I feel like Doom ran better than this on my 486 DX-50, but I might be remembering my later AMD 120 MHz "486."
I love that old PC cabinet.
The nostalgia, it's killing me. 😩
Before GoldenEye 007, there was this and Wolfenstein 3D.
speakers are dope
Doom and Wolfenstein went hard back then. Up all night with a shot of coffee i was working them guns
Oh how I envy you!! Amazing you have this set up, not jealous at all...
Over 30 years later and we can still all remember the cheat codes for doom.
I still remember my surprise when I first tried to type it while playing Heretic. ;-)
Iddqd + idkfa
nice monitor! I used a viewsonic a91f+ all the way until 2012 when 120hz lcd panels finally became available.
It's nice seeing the old fun. Great videos!
I lived in the former Soviet Union at the time, and this was considered a big luxury. I envied my classmates or relatives so much if they had it!
In 1994 I had this computer, I accidentally pressed the turbo mode - the equipment started to howl so terribly that I unplugged it out of fear.
This is what paradise should look like
Very cool! I had a 486 DX2 66 pc back in the day and I played Doom 2 on it and was addicted! Classic game. Those were the good old days 👍
I had a very similar rig but a 15" monitor.
I could hang out with you all day playing all doom1 and 2 no cheat codes, we will pass the whole game on ultra violent
the configuration was that of my first pc in the 90s too much nostalgia super +1 subscription 🙂
Man, this brings back memories.
The only thing I miss from those days are the crt curved angled monitors my laptop runs just a smooth as my old towers did but the screens these days are not great
I had a TRASH 486-SLC-33Mhz (the SLC was basically a 386 with a handful of 486 extensions) that barely ran Doom. Had to play in a postage stamp sized window. But my friend had an insanely fast DX2-80Mhz with a Tseng Labs ET4000AX and 8MB RAM, so we played a lot on his machine. I spent 4 months convincing my Dad that I needed a 486-DX2-66 CPU or I couldn't do my homework properly, and he finally caved in, and the difference was icredible. Got it just in time for Doom 2's release! But with that new chip I could play through all the best games of the time that I'd collected but resented playing on the SLC - Raptor : Call Of The Shadows, The Legacy, Heretic, XCOM 2, etc.
There were a few games that ran well on the SLC though! Older stuff like 4D Sports Driving (aka Stunts), Wolfenstein + Spear Of Destiny, Dune 2 etc.
Raptor was amazing and I never see anyone mention it.
@@FloofusTheCat Yeah it was really a great game of its genre, rivalling the arcades and easily beating the console games of that type. I got it from a computer fair same time I got Doom, but they both ran really poorly on that SLC machine. Still managed to finish it though!
Wonder why they didn't make a sequel?
I didn't see another great shooter like that on the PC until years later with Starmonkey. But by then I had the MAME emulator and was playing Dodonpachi and everything else.
Great video! My first experience with Doom was on the PSX.
66MHZ !!! I remember the days... Not even GHZ yet. Why don't modern cases show you the CPU's clock rate anymore.
My Nostalgia memories i was 7 years old 1998 i had pentium 2 but this pc seems lagging bit
I had a PC with the same case in 1994 !
Okay now I'm a kid again!😊
We didnt own a computer until 2004 so its very interesting to see how these looked before then 👏
In 2060 - playing DOOM 2016 as it was in 2016 😅
This is me totally.!! I'm now 50
0:50
This brings back some memories
😢simplier days. How i mis DOS era😭
I dont know how I played Doom with only keyborad!! Nowdays seems to me very uncomfortable!! Well, I played a Gzdoom version with freeview mouse, manual aiming ,and wasd keys, a very different approach!!
i love thease computers i always loved useing windows 95 and america online
The song is similar to "leather Rebel" by Judas Priest
So cool. I’m not getting rid of any of my old stuff. There’s this obsession in this modern world to throw everything away and get new stuff but it’s just wrong
Is that a Bob Lazar’s poster? Great content, thanks for sharing!
Just the CRT alone makes everything better.
I love your nails 💅
A lot of us that grew up on this are probably smiling right now.
wait until people see what gaming was like on 133 MHz
Comp USA!
Glorious. Thanks!
Just....PERFECT!
I thought it was some kind of "time machine"😂..... And it is apparently a PC
I very very like ASMR from this video.
I remember reading the magazine reviews in early 1994, ordering the game, eagerly waiting for it to be delivered and then playing it in the evenings and late in to the night on my 286 PC with headphones at a loud volume.
I'm still playing Half Life Deathmatch online....I thought that was old until I saw this.
Помню бегали на переменах в кабинет информатики поиграть 10 минут, засиживались потом опаздывали на урок или вообще не приходили 😂
In 1993 I had AM386DX 40MHZ with I think 8MB of ram. Doom from what I remember ran fine. But in 1994 or 95 we got a AM486 DX4- 100 with 36MB of ram and Doom and everything else ran wonderfully. Yes it ran Windows 95, but everything was great.
Despite all the amazing technology and graphics in today's billion dollar gaming industry, nothing comes close to the level of entertainment that one gets from playing 90s pc games. Why is that? Sure nostalgic play a big part, but I think there's more to it.
Wow 👍
Обожаю ваши видео, у самого раритетные компьютеры в гараже и я их пытаюсь запрограммировать, чтобы играть в эти суперские игры
I remember my friend and I being scared of the paper demons
playing with the ancient arrow key bindings. nice.
It's harder to play that way, so perhaps it is how it was intended :)
I still play all shooters with arrow keys and some numpad keys. Even in Overwatch or Counter-Strike I've rebound all keys to the right side of the keyboard lol. Started in 1993, never changed my way.
@@d_vibe-swe not really, the manual that came with the game actually recommended playing with a mouse, it's just that keyboard based controls were the norm for PC games so the arrow keys were the default
@@brineeggliang5460 Well to be fair, the default mouse controls in Doom were pretty weird. Moving the mouse forward and back also made your character walk forward and back, strafing by holding the alt key was extremely weird especially combined with holding the mouse etc. Compared to this, the keyboard only controls were familiar (as you said) and quite ergonomic, so many people just happily stuck with that.
Reminds me of my Tandy 1000 SL2 days. 😎👍
It was a very elite thing to be playing on PC at the time rather than PlayStation. But now as an adult with money I suppose I have become an elite in that sense.
SHOW US YA 4090!
Playstation didn't exist in 1993 though :)
@@d_vibe-swe doom was still a big deal around the time
@@DVDRAR That's true ofcourse :)
We lined up at the school to play this game
Yes, we played Doom, Prince 2, Street Fighter 2, Carmen San Diego and others that way in 1993/94.
And Commander Keen!
"Cheater you deserve no weapons."
Nice video and what a desktop PC. About the gameplay part, it would have been better to play the levels the normal way, no cheats, in not too rough or hurt me plenty, difficulty. I think no one is expecting you to be good playing with keyboard only.
Rip and tear
I've died and gone to nerd heaven.
.....i miss the Days when i used to play FRITZ on my Windows 95 and 98 😢
Pretty hands using the pinnacle of human achievement, how can one not love
Well said and true.
I see what you did there