you know its funny Clint, I had the exact same experience seeing doom for the first time at a party of a family friend, watching with awe as the teenage kid of the house played while me and another cousin watched until my dad came along and ushered me out of the room because of the violence. good times :3
1993, i remember the day my dad walked in with a boxed copy of Doom and said "son, leave whatever you're doing and check this out. This is the best game on the market right now." 25 years later he is still playing 2 games religiously; Red Alert 2 and Doom.
@@davidbanan. '90s dad's were the best! My pops introduced me to road rash on the PS1. He loved hitting old ladies with the chain as they crossed the street... 😂😂😂
I grew up in a Catholic hosuehold, and my Dad thought Doom was the best Christian video game ever made. He always thought "What's more Christian then going to hell and blowing up Satan's minions with a rocket launcher?" :D Watching him blast through Doom 2 on Ultra Violent kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat for hours. :)
+jimmyf1312 Was just thinking the same thing. Maybe what he means by lazy is that he doesn't make it a priority to review all the latest games? Just a guess.
that shows that it doesn matter if you have good computers for developing, or you have a fucking bunch of folks working for you to create a game, if you have creativity and the skills you will rock n roll
*American* video game industry. Nintendo saw an opportunity and picked it up. It's not unlikely somebody else would've picked up the bill back then if Nintendo hadn't. Also, people need to stop mystifying games having somehow "Single handedly" done something. Super Mario Bros. didn't do anything alone, the entire way the NES was handled in the US during its first years was what helped the American industry at the, and SMB was just one of the pieces on the board. One of the more important pieces, mind you, but nothing that happened back then can solely be credited to it. The same way the blame on the '83 American crash can't be solely pitted on E.T.. It's actually outrageous to believe only one game would've done that, and it's something that's been spread around way too much over the decades.
Here in Germany Doom I+II were put on the black list pretty soon after they had been released and shops were not allowed to advertise them or sell them to minors. As long as you were under eighteen you had to know somebody who knew someone to get a a copy of Doom. :-) Being only sixteen at the time, I bought both parts of Doom on a single CD-Rom while on holiday in London, England back in 1995, which made me the coolest kid in the class. :-D
I remember the first time I saw Doom - 1994, my mom brought the shareware version from somewhere. We all gathered around the monitor and stared mesmerised at it - it was as if a window had just opened into another reality. Never before had we even imagined our humble 40 MHz computer (with 8 MB RAM) could bring something that realistic to life. It defied all logic and sanity. It felt ALIVE. IT WAS ALIVE! Twenty-two years later Doom still is my all-time favorite game. And I have yet to get tired of it :) P.S. I was only 9 years old in 1994, yet my parents never restricted me from playing Doom... for which I am grateful.
John Carmack is genius with programming and game design and game development, and managed to bring "3D" to computers that were deemed not powerful enough to handle a "3D" space but he said fuck that and did it
DOOM is such a classic. Easily one of my most-played games of all time, I still go back to it frequently today. Pretty much everything you said is spot-on.
I remember being a kid and my mom took my sister and I to a baby sitter during the summer. That lady had a son who honestly was maybe in their mid 20s looking like the typical nerds you hear about. He was always on his computer, having many games but THIS game was one I saw alot. I never knew what it was but it caught my attention. A little girl who should be playing with barbies was amazed with shooting and gore. I since later found Doom 2 and 3 at a thrift store and so began my old computer game collection. Thank you so much for these videos!
It has aged so well that I still prefer it over most FPS games of today. Its graphics may be outdated, but the gameplay, the music, the atmosphere and the level design is still phenomenal to this day. Every time I fire it up, it's always a blast to play!
Wolf 3D was just a kind of rehearsal for Doom. But with Wolf's all-on-the-level and only-cuboid rooms there is no comparison. Doom is in a totally higher league.
I can still remember watching my father play The Ultimate Doom back when I was 6 years old. My mother didn't want me seeing the violent gameplay, so we'd always have to sneak over to the computer when she wasn't looking.
I never understood religious outrage at games like Doom. You are literally killing demons. Why the hell would devil worshipers make a game about killing devils? I guess if you think demonic images invoke them or something.
I remember swapping shareware disks at high school and coming across Doom. We talked the Netware admin in helping us set it up and played deathmatch and co-op modes on their Everex 386's. Probably the first network game I ever played.
For more information of the creation story of Doom, I recommend the book "Masters of Doom." I've read it like, I don't know how many times now, it's excellent! www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155 I also highly recommend this in-depth video about Doom from my online buddy, Ahoy! It is both comprehensively informative and audiovisually stunning. th-cam.com/video/6A4-SVUHQYI/w-d-xo.html
+Lazy Game Reviews If I look to my left right now, I see a copy of Masters of Doom lying on a table next to my bed. Great read, it illustrates very well how working in game development can be both amazing and excruciatingly terrible. Often at the same time. As for Doom... it's still such an amazing game. I got the shareware version pretty early on, somewhere in 1994, on one of those compilation discs that the stores were full of back then. I had to wait until our PC got more RAM to be able to play it, but man was it worth the wait. Fortunately my mom didn't pay much attention to what I was playing on the computer, so even though I was only 10 at the time I had very little trouble playing gory and violent games.
+Lazy Game Reviews I probably read Masters of Doom at least once every few months! Love that book! I have the love for Doom that you have for Duke Nukem 3d. I remember getting the shareware of Doom with a computer my dad bought back in 1995 with a brand spanking new Pentium and being HOOKED. Looking forward to the new Doom, and wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on it.
I just finished a playthrough of all four episodes of Doom 1 last night. It STILL holds up very well. Almost all of the missions have a great pace to them, that soundtrack is just so fitting, and the gameplay is still so responsive for what it is.
That's an interesting story on how you discovered Doom. I had a similar experience. We didn't have a computer when I was younger. Then we moved in the mid 90s and the first friends I made had a computer which I couldn't care less about. That was until they showed me Doom. I was completely blown away and I had to have it. That night I went home and convinced my parents that we needed one. For... you know? School. It was the reason I got my first computer and got big into PC games back then. Still one of my favorite games of all time.
I just got the original Doom for xbox 360, playing it on xbone and my 10 yr old daughter tried it out. She can't stop playing it now lol. I guess, even with all the new fps games, Doom still has those claws.
I like your childhood story. For me my friend had a pc with Doom but I had an older pc with other classic games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Populus, Life and Death, Alleycat, Beauracracy text based game, etc. Later though, my friend showed me Half Life and my world was never the same.
Been playing this for 23 years straight non-stop thanks to the modding community and I will likely still play it well into my grave. This video made me well up tears in my eyes, thank you! Doom will always be the best game ever for me.
I have a very similar history with Doom. I was born in 1997 and when I was 8, I watched a report on violent video games. My parents showed it to me because they knew I liked playing games alot and didn't want me to be uneducated about these "Murder Simulators". I didn't care at all and just wanted to play mario and Sonic at the time, so I assured them that I wouldn't play any of those games, especially since all the games they showed looked dull, gray and just boring. But at the end they showed some older games, trying to get accross, that these types of games are getting more and more realitstic. I remember seeing E1M1 and hearing the soundtrack and monster noises, which really captured my imagination for the next weeks until I sneeked onto my dads pc (without any knowlege of the internet) and started looking up "old shooter game" on yahoo. After some searching I found one of Dooms textures, the one out of marble with a demon face in the middle. I hadn't even seen that texture in the report, but I knew that this was it. Too scared and too unexperienced, I din't look for a download, especially since I din't even know what a download was. Once I got my own PC when I was 10, I downloaded and played the game. Fun for ages! Also got into mapping and modding for Doom and now I'm going to attend a Game Design University next year. So, cool video dude, really took me back. Also hope you enjoy the new Doom, I think it's amazing personally :D
My soul was taken too... forever. My 486, its 11pm, no lights: the music has me pumped. I turn the corner into a long dark hallway. Can hear the snarls... they're coming for me. I can't see them... I fear to go in, but there's no turning back. Out of the darkness a fireball flies in, and then another; just missed me! Shotgun in hand, fire against fire is the only way forward. That monster's head explodes but there're so many others behind him! Ahhrr the fireball burn! The last one is blown 6 feet backwards from a shotgun to the face... Damn you monsters back to hell! Heart pounding, adrenaline at unhealthy sky diver levels, still twitching on the WASD keys. Yeah, that was Unforgettable.
In 1994, two mates of mine lived next door to each other in our university hall of residence (3rd floor). Having both acquired 486 PCs, they wanted to run a serial cable for death match play in Doom. The only way to get the cable between rooms without drilling a hole in the cinderblock wall was out the window. So for the rest of the year from the courtyard you could see what was soon dubbed the "umbilical cord" hanging between their windows. They were soon dubbed the "umbilical brothers". Good times.
Wow! Man, you nailed it. One of the best commentaries I've ever heard on Doom game play. Everytime I play the original Doom, the sound track and the sheer excitement, makes my heart go faster and faster.
I just wanted to say something regarding your comment in the video - "happy little side-effect of the engine where everything is dark in the distance". This is not just a side-effect of the engine, this is a deliberate innovation by John Carmack. He created code that meant that as you moved further away from something the engine would change the colours to an increasingly darker hue from a preset colour pallet. Brilliant work as always and just one of many innovations (the dynamic lighting being another) in Doom by the guy that moved PC gaming forward so much! Also - Carmack made his engine deliberately moddable!
Played doom at the age of 5. My Dad built me my own computer just to do it. Some of my earliest memories are of him waking me up in the middle of the night to show me the "cool thing" he added to his doom levels he'd be working on.
Doom is a game that cannot be reviewed, but looked back on in retrospect because it is one of the most *important* games in history. You never forget your first experience.
When you go to youtube.com and look on your homepage and the first video is "LGR - DOOM - DOS PC Game Review" just as you made yourself dinner. This is going to be a good day.
Those 15 minutes felt like 30, in a very good way. The scripts (I even feel bad calling them scripts) you write are sublime and so captivating. Thank you.
This is the very first video game I remember playing. What a hell of a game to start with (or at least I assume so, it's probably not THE first video game I played).
This is the most heartfelt review of Doom I've ever seen. We can really feel how passionate you are about the game and how it made a huge impact on your life and personality. I was a little bit older than you when I first saw Doom. I was 13 and I never stopped playing since. You, sir, are a true DOOM fan
One of my favorites thing in the original doom was how weapons and enemy deaths blend into the soundtrack like they're additional instruments. And the score counter at each level end, the pistol fire sound adds to the guitar. That's what I picture when someone talks to me about combat flow.
When I played Doom it had been out for a couple of years and I had been completely enthralled by images of it. Yet there was something special when you'd install and run Doom for the first time. It was just such a big jump in gaming evolution that I think very few games can actually compare in that sense. It was seen from a first person perspective, it was incredibly immersive and hypnotising. For the first time you could actually truly be inside of a video game. The sounds and the textures are so well done that everything feels tangible, like you could actually touch it. The game was not just "developed" but actually "designed". Meaning the focus was on how it would feel, on the experience, rather then just making cool features glued together like most developers think games are made of. Thanks for bringing back some cool memories!! Keep up the good work (and videos!)
I avoided the game at first because I was brought up in a somewhat southern baptist household, and assumed anything with demons was evil and to be avoided. Finally played it in '95 on the super nintendo and fell head-over-heels in love with it. Been my favorite game of all time ever since. I'm still modding for it and everything.
Summer, 1994.. or was it 95'? Eh, memories fade but what doesn't fade is the images and sounds burned into my childhood. I was at my uncle's house when we made an out of town trip. He was one of the few adults I knew that cared and owned computer stuff. I was already into my Tandy 3000 and the AppleII but now I had a taste of THE FUTURE. He sat me down and let me have a go at some of the games he had. The two I was most fascinated by were DOOM and Cyberia. The later of which would be basically lost for time but in that moment those two games just amazed me and made me fantasize of what magic could come next? I also never thought "it couldn't get better" than synthesized MIDI . ... technology is awesome and awe inspiring eh?
You're writing is impeccable. Every video of yours has that right tone and pace. This one though, hit the spot. As a longtime Doom fan, this video made me reminisce on those incredible times I had (and still have) with this game. Kudos to you good sir and keep on doing what you do. You have a fan in me
Great review. Doom is legendary. Now I'm playing Doom on my DS. Great homebrew port, better then psp. My favourite addition to original Doom was Master Levels - true doomgasm.
I remember when I got my first Shareware version of DOOM, it came in this small paperboard sleeve (about the size of a CD sleeve they sell now) with DOOM across the front and just a mess of greeble texturing under it. I spent an hour and a half on a ride home before just constantly looking it over and over, reading and rereading the back and just staring at the front, trying to see if there were any images in the greeble textures on the front. That was a frickin' long ride :P
Awesome video LGR! Thank you for giving Doom the review it deserves. Doom was the game that got me into multiplayer online back in the 90's. I spent so many evenings connected to the local BBS deathmatching, and so many weekends doing lan parties with my friends to play it. It really sparked my love of PC gaming and interest in online games ever since.
Wow... Thanks for sharing this with us. It's surprising to hear that you didn't get to play Doom after Quake. I was 13 back in 1993 and my step dad just upgraded our PC from 386 to 486. We were on the way to pick up 4MB RAM stick and that's where I saw Doom at the store. I vividly remember holding that box with embossed lettering. My step dad looked at the system requirements and he decided to buy it to test out our new PC. We didn't have sound card installed yet but but the visuals alone changed the perception of gaming for me. It was totally unlike what my Sega did and I was hooked. It was couple months later when i saw Doom demo at compUSA with beastly 66mhz 19inch SVGA with sound blaster. Again, it freaking blew me away just with the sound. I must of been the few kids in the world that asked for sound blaster for Xmas that year lol
This is so spot-on. I first got Doom for the PSX and my cousin and I were blown away, playing it non-stop for days. We even set 2 TV sets up side-by-side and played PVP..
I agree with you about Doom (2016) . In fact, as time goes on I realize the less I need or even want 'the next thing'. Doom is amazing to this day, and if you want a 'modern' Doom then Brutal Doom fulfills that remarkably. New games will come along that are awesome, and as someone who loves them at a technical level (board, card, video, mind, take your pick) I'll always be interested in what's going on. But when it comes time to sit down and pick something to play. Sorry to say, the reason some of these games are Classics is not just because they were good for their time, but that they continue to be good for arguably all time.
What an interesting way of talking, information depth, storytelling. Great photos and video effects, personal family stories and especially way to show newbies the enthusiasm you experienced. This is the best summary of how doom really is.
I worked at a University that was looking at switching networks from DEC Pathworks to either Netware or NT. We sat through a demo of Netware, IPX, etc, and the group of us in the room had a very bright, collective bulb appear above our heads: IPX meant multiplayer DOOM!! The uni went with NT, but we geeks had all the ammo we needed to boot to DOS, load network drivers, toss in a little IPX and play DOOM in what became VERY extended “lunch hour massacres.” It was awesome!
I have pretty much the same story from my childhood: when i was 3 years old i had a Sega Master system, and used to play Rastan, Alex kidd and another couple of games, but i wasn't really hooked on them Then, one day, my dad came home with HEXEN (which, if you don't know, is practically Doom in a REALLY dark fantasy/demoniac setting with A TON more violence and a couple more "puzzle" elements other than simple keys) and, since my dad has allways been kinda of a youngster and chill man, he did something that most parents would have never allowed their 4 years old kid to do...he let me play it through the whole game; of course i didn't manage to beat it until i was something like 7 years old but still..i've been playin Hexen since i was practically an infant! still to this day i remember the first time i spawned as a cleric in the first map, looking back and seeing a key in dark cave that i couldn't access yet...my god... still to this day i love Hexen; thanx to it i became really interested in videogames; thanx to it i was not simply playin them, i was researchin them, lookin for interesting ones ecc..it is what made me fell in love with videogames It also shaped my tastes: still to this day i am OBSESSED with medieval history, dark fantasy settings and challengin gory combat (no wonder the Dark Souls/Demon's souls/Bloodborne games are my favourite)
Loved Hexen. I was around 10-11 when playing it. Loved the darkness, the monsters, the atmosphere and the puzzles and level design, the music and sounds and everything. It just went straight into your head and merged with your imagination as a kid. You don't get that feeling anymore, when you have cleared out a room or a part of a level from monster and you actually feeling to stay there because it felt safe, while you could here the daemons in the distance somewhere behind some walls. "Oh fuck that, I'm not going there. I'm staying here, perhaps I can grow some potatoes and mushrooms to live on."
Bark That's why i'm mostly into retro games the only games that, recently, made me feel what you're talkin about, are the games of the "souls serie" (Demon's souls; Dark souls 1-2-3; Bloodborne) and an handful of other titles like Pillars of eternity
I always drooled when I would see screenshots of doom back in the day because I did not own a PC... I didn't play doom until it was released on the original playstation and I loved it. I saw half life and unreal reviewed in computer and video games magazine later on and there was no way I was missing out again so I upgraded to PC gaming and never looked back :)
LOL @ Clint's Doom intro story. When I was a kid I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle's house for a family vacation, with my parents and younger brothers staying at a nearby Grandma's house leaving me by myself. My cool uncle showed by Wolfenstein 3D, and I played so much of it during that trip instead of sleeping that I made myself sick from sleep deprivation over those 4-5 days. I couldn't stop, though, I was so blown away by what a computer could do.
When my father bought me Doom we didn't even have a SoundBlaster. I played probably a combined total of 200 hours of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom with nothing but motherboard beeps on a 386! I remember to get them to run at all I had to hit the '-' key until the render window was as small as possible in the center of the screen. Thanks for the reviews, they bring back so many fond memories.
What a classic this is... I remember when I still had a MMX200 with Win98SE in use. Sure around this time Doom was a bit dated but a back then friend of mine gave me a copy of Doom1, Doom2 and Final Doom on one disc. Played the shit out of it, especially since my computer (that still exists) has no 3D acceleration to play to much else. Right now I'm planning to do a retro LAN with friends that also all seem to love that old stuff. Doom is definitely on our list, just because it's so great and balanced in death match. Thanks for the review, great stuff as always!
I think my testosterone levels were boosted by 274% from watching this video. Before, I couldn't grow a beard. Now, it's 12 feet long and indestructible.
WeirdoTZero I've played DOOM, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Quake so much that I grew a neck beard and my balls have dropped down the floor and turned into steel.
Recently bought the BFG version of Doom 3 from Steam for the Lost Mission campaign. It includes Doom and Doom 2. I played them all when they first came out. Now I'm replaying all of them to earn the Steam achievements nearly half a lifetime later. My computer upgrades over the years have been timed with the release of a new Doom game, including Doom 2016. That's how you know this is an amazing franchise.
are you by any chance gonna make a Quake review? one of the best horror themed action games ever made. I hope id goes back to that or mesh it with the "Stroggos" aesthetic of the later games.
***** I uh... just saw it... he has some intersting thoughts on the early FPS games... not my cup of tea. Too preachy and self righteous. I wouldve rather he focused on the aesthetic of Quake as a Techo Gothic horror action game which is probably the only other game of its kind besides System Shock 2.
Man, this game... When the only game magazine published an review of Doom, I was hooked. Soon after I got my hands on the 1.1 shareware with only PC speaker sound to accompany me. Later we somehow got the full 1.2 version (an illegal copy with a cool intro by a group from Italy) and I spent too much time on it. My dad took me, my friends and my brother to his work on weekends where we played the game on the local LAN together (where the slowest PC determined the game speed). That was the time when CRT monitors needed those external filters, but we still all got headaches. Worth it!
If anybody wants a fantastic overview of Doom in general, check out Ahoy's retrospective, it's long, in depth and awesome. I still remember staying over at a friend's house when I was like 6 or 7 and after a day of doing something fun, my friend's dad would always tease us by asking us if we wanted to rent a couple of movies oooor.... (long pause) play Doom. The answer was always the same. Little bits of it always stuck out in my mind for years afterwards until I got my own copy, one in particular being the pinky demon in the maze on E1M4. Still awesome, still creepy.
What a fantastic review of my favourite game of all time, thank you! At 12 years old, Doom used to scare the absolute shit out of me but always brought me back for more.
I had a similar first exposure to Doom story as you did LGR. I grew up on a farm in Minnesota and back in the day computers were too expensive for our family. Plus you didn't need them nearly as much as today. We did however have a SNES. My brother came home one night from the rental store with this scary red cartridge. I was amazed just by seeing a red cartridge. He then played it as I watched. I eventually got to play it before he returned it, but I always died super early. Years later my brothers moved out and my mom bought me the PS1. I then found a used copy for Doom on PS1 and played it constantly. Finally, I hit high school and it was time that I finally got a PC. It wasn't special, but was great for surfing the Internet and writing papers for class. It wasn't long until I bought a copy of Ultimate Doom with Doom 2 and master levels. I remember finally playing Doom on PC and being initially let down because I was so used to the sounds and music from the Playstation version. To this day I still go back just to play the music, but with a lack of a save feature really makes it tough to sit down for long play sessions.
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My follow-up review of the new Doom is now ready for viewing!
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6:07 that was your reaction for the remake too?
Still waiting on that Doom 2 video, dude. ;P
You are the best narrator for old games!
LGR If your gonna show a soundclip to show off the music DONT SHOOT OVER THE MUSIC.
you know its funny Clint, I had the exact same experience seeing doom for the first time at a party of a family friend, watching with awe as the teenage kid of the house played while me and another cousin watched until my dad came along and ushered me out of the room because of the violence. good times :3
Every time he gets excited he turns into Duke Nukem lmao.
Bruh 😂😂
😂😂😂 true
or he gets horny or orgasms check hes retro pc reviews builds ... he almosts comes on screen
Yeh lol
@ Then don't watch him... lol
1993, i remember the day my dad walked in with a boxed copy of Doom and said "son, leave whatever you're doing and check this out. This is the best game on the market right now."
25 years later he is still playing 2 games religiously; Red Alert 2 and Doom.
What is it about 90s dads and bursting in with a new game and going Stop and get over herw
@@davidbanan. it's the ye olde "unrealistic dad" schtick
@@davidbanan. '90s dad's were the best! My pops introduced me to road rash on the PS1. He loved hitting old ladies with the chain as they crossed the street... 😂😂😂
@@Clos93 fucking hell...road rash. I forgot that even existed haha
@@lyndonbauer1703 first time I ever heard Soundgarden. Anytime I hear "Rusty Cage", I instantly think of road rash lol
I grew up in a Catholic hosuehold, and my Dad thought Doom was the best Christian video game ever made. He always thought "What's more Christian then going to hell and blowing up Satan's minions with a rocket launcher?" :D
Watching him blast through Doom 2 on Ultra Violent kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat for hours. :)
+flippedoutkyrii Your dad sounds cool.
@@Bauglir100 my dad loves Wolfenstein for that reason alone
To Hell With the Devil is one of the best Christian songs.
Matthew 5:39 (NIV)
But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.
Hahaha
Calls it lazy game reviews. Does a ton of research before hand
+jimmyf1312 Was just thinking the same thing. Maybe what he means by lazy is that he doesn't make it a priority to review all the latest games? Just a guess.
+jimmyf1312 releases a review 23 years after release :P
jimmyf1312 not sure but I think that’s the joke
But he doesn't have to do a lot of legwork outside his house to do that research 😛
The "lazy" part is just his lazy way of speaking.
Doom is probably the single most important game ever released, and it was an indie title made by ten guys in a rented apartment.
that shows that it doesn matter if you have good computers for developing, or you have a fucking bunch of folks working for you to create a game, if you have creativity and the skills you will rock n roll
Doom is definitly a masterpiece of a game cause it really changed my view of fps
games! i grew up on it and loved it ever since it came out!
silvenkovich ehhh they did require some expensive computers tho for there time
Yeah, but it's a pretty good game anyways ;)
*American* video game industry.
Nintendo saw an opportunity and picked it up. It's not unlikely somebody else would've picked up the bill back then if Nintendo hadn't.
Also, people need to stop mystifying games having somehow "Single handedly" done something. Super Mario Bros. didn't do anything alone, the entire way the NES was handled in the US during its first years was what helped the American industry at the, and SMB was just one of the pieces on the board. One of the more important pieces, mind you, but nothing that happened back then can solely be credited to it.
The same way the blame on the '83 American crash can't be solely pitted on E.T.. It's actually outrageous to believe only one game would've done that, and it's something that's been spread around way too much over the decades.
Here in Germany Doom I+II were put on the black list pretty soon after they had been released and shops were not allowed to advertise them or sell them to minors. As long as you were under eighteen you had to know somebody who knew someone to get a a copy of Doom. :-) Being only sixteen at the time, I bought both parts of Doom on a single CD-Rom while on holiday in London, England back in 1995, which made me the coolest kid in the class. :-D
soulagent79 that sounds like it sucked.
On the hand it did, but on the other hand everybody played pirated copies of the game anyway.
Germany is a cuckolded country.
@@iwanttoforceavegantoeatmea7596 *was
In Germany, everybody had a copy back then, age limit didn't work at all ;)
"If there's demons, you're probably going the right way". Sound advice when playing the game of Doom. Terrible advice for real life.
are there any demons screaming IRL?
No, there are only demons whispering.
We all have our demons and we shall meet them face to face
And possibly make a great orgy.
Exorcise 'em all!
If you meet with the mobs leader, you're probably going the right way. GTA taught me well.
I remember the first time I saw Doom - 1994, my mom brought the shareware version from somewhere. We all gathered around the monitor and stared mesmerised at it - it was as if a window had just opened into another reality. Never before had we even imagined our humble 40 MHz computer (with 8 MB RAM) could bring something that realistic to life. It defied all logic and sanity. It felt ALIVE. IT WAS ALIVE!
Twenty-two years later Doom still is my all-time favorite game. And I have yet to get tired of it :)
P.S. I was only 9 years old in 1994, yet my parents never restricted me from playing Doom... for which I am grateful.
Have you grown into a psychotic homicidal satanist?
Very important-looking people on TV said that you should've.
@@volo870 If they were right, I should have achieved world domination by now. :D I wrote the main cheat codes FAQ.
I played at 6
John Carmack is genius with programming and game design and game development, and managed to bring "3D" to computers that were deemed not powerful enough to handle a "3D" space but he said fuck that and did it
I was 11 in 1994, and remember feeling the same way when I first saw the game at my dads office.
DOOM is such a classic. Easily one of my most-played games of all time, I still go back to it frequently today. Pretty much everything you said is spot-on.
@@only257 damn dude, you type lime youre 12.
I remember being a kid and my mom took my sister and I to a baby sitter during the summer. That lady had a son who honestly was maybe in their mid 20s looking like the typical nerds you hear about. He was always on his computer, having many games but THIS game was one I saw alot. I never knew what it was but it caught my attention. A little girl who should be playing with barbies was amazed with shooting and gore. I since later found Doom 2 and 3 at a thrift store and so began my old computer game collection. Thank you so much for these videos!
I think Doom has aged quite well, definitely a fair bit better that Wolf 3D.
It has aged so well that I still prefer it over most FPS games of today. Its graphics may be outdated, but the gameplay, the music, the atmosphere and the level design is still phenomenal to this day. Every time I fire it up, it's always a blast to play!
Professor Bearington I wish new games had this style of play! Just with updated graphics.
Wolf 3D was just a kind of rehearsal for Doom. But with Wolf's all-on-the-level and only-cuboid rooms there is no comparison. Doom is in a totally higher league.
@@EnigmaGameMaster Tbh, those outdated graphics give that feel to the game too.
But Wolf 3D just simply has that maze feel. There had been so many wasted hours trying to find my way through the same putrid color looking rooms.
Lazy Game Reviews dude, this video was a piece of poetry. You are an artist.
Appreciate it :)
he sure is and btw i love Doom and this
vid is helpful lgr thank you!
Ah! Poetry was the word I was thinking of!
Was!? is still is!
A poet of the gory pixels
I can still remember watching my father play The Ultimate Doom back when I was 6 years old. My mother didn't want me seeing the violent gameplay, so we'd always have to sneak over to the computer when she wasn't looking.
Haha, that's awesome. The sneaking around my mother with my dad for violent things didn't happen til a few years later for me ;)
I love the personal touch with the story of a 7 year old LGR seeing Doom for the first time. Good story teller, he is.
Thank you!
Yes to mention
I never understood religious outrage at games like Doom. You are literally killing demons. Why the hell would devil worshipers make a game about killing devils?
I guess if you think demonic images invoke them or something.
It's like Germany not liking Wolfenstein 3D, even though the whole point of that game is killing nazis
that law is rubbish and you know it, doom up until v1.4 also had a swastika in E1M4
I was thinking the same thing. The demons are... the bad guys... literally the entire game is... blowing them up...
Vbombz
If we’re to ban every media containing something about demons, we should start with the Bible.
It’s very embarrassing to us Christians who are normal people and actually understand fiction
I remember swapping shareware disks at high school and coming across Doom. We talked the Netware admin in helping us set it up and played deathmatch and co-op modes on their Everex 386's. Probably the first network game I ever played.
I feel you! My parents let me play it, Thank God 😁
Didn’t expect to see you here Karl! I was just watching you before this video!
Cool
I'm starting to become a sucker for classic FPS games.
It's so amazing to find out the history but personally I just couldn't get into wolfeinstein 3d but I can with doom 1 though
Brutal Duke Nukem next then?
@@pow9606 isn't it enough brutal already?
@@hazardeur lmao if you want brutal, try Blood
@@Samael3110 yeah, played it when it came out :)
i love your passion for video games, it really shows up in your videos, keep it up!! greets
John Romero is releasing a brand new Megawad in February 2019. He has been working on it for 2 years now!! Can’t wait to try it out!!
The Sigil is being unleashed
it's generic honestly, i've seen way better
i was a bit disappointed
romero had the sheer audacity to call seven maps a megawad... it's just one episode lmao. romero's a good dude though
Yeah, but actually it wasn't a megawad, just an episode. Not even as long as Knee Deep In The Dead
John is a DOOM Hero!
For more information of the creation story of Doom, I recommend the book "Masters of Doom." I've read it like, I don't know how many times now, it's excellent!
www.amazon.com/Masters-Doom-Created-Transformed-Culture/dp/0812972155
I also highly recommend this in-depth video about Doom from my online buddy, Ahoy! It is both comprehensively informative and audiovisually stunning.
th-cam.com/video/6A4-SVUHQYI/w-d-xo.html
+Lazy Game Reviews If I look to my left right now, I see a copy of Masters of Doom lying on a table next to my bed. Great read, it illustrates very well how working in game development can be both amazing and excruciatingly terrible. Often at the same time.
As for Doom... it's still such an amazing game. I got the shareware version pretty early on, somewhere in 1994, on one of those compilation discs that the stores were full of back then. I had to wait until our PC got more RAM to be able to play it, but man was it worth the wait. Fortunately my mom didn't pay much attention to what I was playing on the computer, so even though I was only 10 at the time I had very little trouble playing gory and violent games.
+Lazy Game Reviews I approve! Masters of Doom is really good indeed! Looking forward to your DOOM 4 review, mate.
+Lazy Game Reviews I probably read Masters of Doom at least once every few months! Love that book! I have the love for Doom that you have for Duke Nukem 3d. I remember getting the shareware of Doom with a computer my dad bought back in 1995 with a brand spanking new Pentium and being HOOKED. Looking forward to the new Doom, and wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on it.
+Lazy Game Reviews Ah man... It's ~6 $'s, but ends up at 30 $'s due to shipping to Denmark. Maybe next month..
I've watched the Doom video by Ahoy a while back, it's wicked!
I just finished a playthrough of all four episodes of Doom 1 last night. It STILL holds up very well. Almost all of the missions have a great pace to them, that soundtrack is just so fitting, and the gameplay is still so responsive for what it is.
5:47 RIP AND TEAR YOUR GUTS OUT
Don't think I didn't see that frame in there.
Hehe
+Karmagasm YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS!
+Karmagasm Ahh... Truly a masterpiece in of 90's art like the thing that inspired it. :)
+Karmagasm Nothing else is as recognisable as that single panel. Glad to see that I'm not the only one. RIP AND TEAR! 8D
That's an interesting story on how you discovered Doom. I had a similar experience. We didn't have a computer when I was younger. Then we moved in the mid 90s and the first friends I made had a computer which I couldn't care less about. That was until they showed me Doom. I was completely blown away and I had to have it. That night I went home and convinced my parents that we needed one. For... you know? School. It was the reason I got my first computer and got big into PC games back then. Still one of my favorite games of all time.
Your parents really thought you need a game for school? xD
@@Vojingamer That they needed a computer for school but the computer was actually for Doom.
I just got the original Doom for xbox 360, playing it on xbone and my 10 yr old daughter tried it out. She can't stop playing it now lol. I guess, even with all the new fps games, Doom still has those claws.
Being timeless is something few art pieces, let alone games have achieved, goes to show how good doom is.
Don't delete it! They took it off the XBLA store. Blame Bethesda.
@@ZapWires Doom is Eternal, indeed.
I realy love how this guy sometimes sound's like Duke Nukem
Every one is aware of this
Jesus christ! An hour long RetroAhoy on Quake, and a freakin' DOOM review by LGR!?!? WTF?!
I like your childhood story. For me my friend had a pc with Doom but I had an older pc with other classic games like King's Quest, Quest for Glory, Populus, Life and Death, Alleycat, Beauracracy text based game, etc. Later though, my friend showed me Half Life and my world was never the same.
Props for having subtitles for her hearing impaired!
You'd think he'd have reviewed this much sooner than he did...
And yet here we are. Such is life.
Your avatar is amazing!
Who's avatar, the brown Gabriel Brown guy or LGR's? You forgot to clarify.
Luke Hillard Sorry I meant Gabriel Brown. The Ski man game brings me back to my childhood. Never did beat that yeti.
i woulda thought it was late for him to do it too!
Been playing this for 23 years straight non-stop thanks to the modding community and I will likely still play it well into my grave. This video made me well up tears in my eyes, thank you! Doom will always be the best game ever for me.
Dear lord. Take a nap after 23 years.
@@MuttFitness No F that, just continue.
dude i randomly found your channel and you're my new favorite person. thank you for bringing back so many happy childhood memories!! This is great.
Awesome to hear. I hope you continue to enjoy!
My most precious gaming memory is when my dad came home after work and he had bought DOOM for me, DOOM I & II are still my favorite FPS games ever.
I have a very similar history with Doom. I was born in 1997 and when I was 8, I watched a report on violent video games. My parents showed it to me because they knew I liked playing games alot and didn't want me to be uneducated about these "Murder Simulators". I didn't care at all and just wanted to play mario and Sonic at the time, so I assured them that I wouldn't play any of those games, especially since all the games they showed looked dull, gray and just boring. But at the end they showed some older games, trying to get accross, that these types of games are getting more and more realitstic. I remember seeing E1M1 and hearing the soundtrack and monster noises, which really captured my imagination for the next weeks until I sneeked onto my dads pc (without any knowlege of the internet) and started looking up "old shooter game" on yahoo. After some searching I found one of Dooms textures, the one out of marble with a demon face in the middle. I hadn't even seen that texture in the report, but I knew that this was it. Too scared and too unexperienced, I din't look for a download, especially since I din't even know what a download was. Once I got my own PC when I was 10, I downloaded and played the game. Fun for ages! Also got into mapping and modding for Doom and now I'm going to attend a Game Design University next year.
So, cool video dude, really took me back. Also hope you enjoy the new Doom, I think it's amazing personally :D
When you just wanna play non violent cartoon games but your parents tell you not to play violent games and you end up playing them
Now that is some pure love - I like these kind of videos coming from LGR.
Also - Heroes of might and magic when?
My soul was taken too... forever.
My 486, its 11pm, no lights: the music has me pumped. I turn the corner into a long dark hallway. Can hear the snarls... they're coming for me. I can't see them... I fear to go in, but there's no turning back. Out of the darkness a fireball flies in, and then another; just missed me! Shotgun in hand, fire against fire is the only way forward. That monster's head explodes but there're so many others behind him! Ahhrr the fireball burn! The last one is blown 6 feet backwards from a shotgun to the face... Damn you monsters back to hell!
Heart pounding, adrenaline at unhealthy sky diver levels, still twitching on the WASD keys. Yeah, that was Unforgettable.
486 dx 2 with sound blaster pro freakin amazing at the time
@@brickit26 I wish.. I didn't have the money! Headset was good enough :)
@@rixxy9204 haha me either my parents had it I just ran the crap out of it.
What a great video. Well done, sir.
In 1994, two mates of mine lived next door to each other in our university hall of residence (3rd floor). Having both acquired 486 PCs, they wanted to run a serial cable for death match play in Doom.
The only way to get the cable between rooms without drilling a hole in the cinderblock wall was out the window.
So for the rest of the year from the courtyard you could see what was soon dubbed the "umbilical cord" hanging between their windows. They were soon dubbed the "umbilical brothers". Good times.
I think SECRET AREAS are what I miss the most from these classic shooters. Modern shooters just seem so shallow and linear these days.
Did you play the new Wolfenstein yet?
+The Adequate Gamer then you'll love the new DOOM then.
+Justin D. New Order was balls to the wall pure awesome. I just wish they would have went even more insane. Oh well.
+The Adequate Gamer from what I've heard new DOOM have crapton of well hidden secrets.
Wow! Man, you nailed it. One of the best commentaries I've ever heard on Doom game play. Everytime I play the original Doom, the sound track and the sheer excitement, makes my heart go faster and faster.
Played Doom and Doom 2 for the first time last year.
Was really suprised over how good it still is!
toss brutal doom on top of doom 1 or 2 and enjoy a new level of fun.
I like doom 1 and 2 better than doom 3 and doom 2016
+dwarf365 No way, original with GZDoom is the superlative version of DOOM, Br00tal d00m adds ironsights and reloading, they don't belong in DOOM
+Redfoxe That's one brutal profile picture...
I just wanted to say something regarding your comment in the video - "happy little side-effect of the engine where everything is dark in the distance". This is not just a side-effect of the engine, this is a deliberate innovation by John Carmack. He created code that meant that as you moved further away from something the engine would change the colours to an increasingly darker hue from a preset colour pallet. Brilliant work as always and just one of many innovations (the dynamic lighting being another) in Doom by the guy that moved PC gaming forward so much!
Also - Carmack made his engine deliberately moddable!
Played doom at the age of 5. My Dad built me my own computer just to do it. Some of my earliest memories are of him waking me up in the middle of the night to show me the "cool thing" he added to his doom levels he'd be working on.
Doom is a game that cannot be reviewed, but looked back on in retrospect because it is one of the most *important* games in history. You never forget your first experience.
When you go to youtube.com and look on your homepage and the first video is "LGR - DOOM - DOS PC Game Review" just as you made yourself dinner. This is going to be a good day.
+Marcuss2 Yep indeed ^^
This is pretty much what's happening for me right now
Those 15 minutes felt like 30, in a very good way.
The scripts (I even feel bad calling them scripts) you write are sublime and so captivating. Thank you.
I appreciate it!
+Lazy Game Reviews Your narration voice sounds a little like Duke Nukem sometimes.
This is the very first video game I remember playing. What a hell of a game to start with (or at least I assume so, it's probably not THE first video game I played).
This is the most heartfelt review of Doom I've ever seen. We can really feel how passionate you are about the game and how it made a huge impact on your life and personality. I was a little bit older than you when I first saw Doom. I was 13 and I never stopped playing since. You, sir, are a true DOOM fan
Doom is great. One of the few DOS games with decent benchmarking / time demo features built in. A real classic.
Weird to see you here. I really enjoy your videos, dude!
Well I watch a lot of TH-cam :)
One of my favorites thing in the original doom was how weapons and enemy deaths blend into the soundtrack like they're additional instruments. And the score counter at each level end, the pistol fire sound adds to the guitar. That's what I picture when someone talks to me about combat flow.
Im glad PBG brought me to your channel. Your reviews seem pretty interesting, Im gonna subscirbe.
Thanks a lot :)
When I played Doom it had been out for a couple of years and I had been completely enthralled by images of it. Yet there was something special when you'd install and run Doom for the first time. It was just such a big jump in gaming evolution that I think very few games can actually compare in that sense. It was seen from a first person perspective, it was incredibly immersive and hypnotising. For the first time you could actually truly be inside of a video game. The sounds and the textures are so well done that everything feels tangible, like you could actually touch it. The game was not just "developed" but actually "designed". Meaning the focus was on how it would feel, on the experience, rather then just making cool features glued together like most developers think games are made of.
Thanks for bringing back some cool memories!! Keep up the good work (and videos!)
Doom was way ahead of it's time
Well I think it's more like, when it was released it made everything else look way behind its time.
its*
By far the most honestly passionate and in-depth game review I have seen in my life. Nice.
I avoided the game at first because I was brought up in a somewhat southern baptist household, and assumed anything with demons was evil and to be avoided. Finally played it in '95 on the super nintendo and fell head-over-heels in love with it. Been my favorite game of all time ever since. I'm still modding for it and everything.
Mike MacDee what mods have you made? I may want to try them :p
DOOM is definitely one of my favorite games of all time! Thanks LGR for all of your hard work and time you put into your videos!!
Totally; I appreciate you noticing :)
do you have a IBM T60? just wondering
Summer, 1994.. or was it 95'? Eh, memories fade but what doesn't fade is the images and sounds burned into my childhood. I was at my uncle's house when we made an out of town trip. He was one of the few adults I knew that cared and owned computer stuff. I was already into my Tandy 3000 and the AppleII but now I had a taste of THE FUTURE.
He sat me down and let me have a go at some of the games he had. The two I was most fascinated by were DOOM and Cyberia. The later of which would be basically lost for time but in that moment those two games just amazed me and made me fantasize of what magic could come next?
I also never thought "it couldn't get better" than synthesized MIDI .
...
technology is awesome and awe inspiring eh?
You're writing is impeccable. Every video of yours has that right tone and pace. This one though, hit the spot. As a longtime Doom fan, this video made me reminisce on those incredible times I had (and still have) with this game. Kudos to you good sir and keep on doing what you do. You have a fan in me
Great review. Doom is legendary. Now I'm playing Doom on my DS. Great homebrew port, better then psp. My favourite addition to original Doom was Master Levels - true doomgasm.
That editing bit at 9:53 was just masterful. Bravo!
I remember when I got my first Shareware version of DOOM, it came in this small paperboard sleeve (about the size of a CD sleeve they sell now) with DOOM across the front and just a mess of greeble texturing under it. I spent an hour and a half on a ride home before just constantly looking it over and over, reading and rereading the back and just staring at the front, trying to see if there were any images in the greeble textures on the front. That was a frickin' long ride :P
Awesome video LGR! Thank you for giving Doom the review it deserves.
Doom was the game that got me into multiplayer online back in the 90's. I spent so many evenings connected to the local BBS deathmatching, and so many weekends doing lan parties with my friends to play it. It really sparked my love of PC gaming and interest in online games ever since.
It would be pretty neat if you made a similar video for Quake!
Haha. he just finished it I believe.
David Lara Yeah I saw it! :D It was like he saw it!
he did that too man! go see that too
instead of asking!
Andrew Haxley little late there buddy.
David Lara ok thanks friend i know i am,
Wow... Thanks for sharing this with us. It's surprising to hear that you didn't get to play Doom after Quake. I was 13 back in 1993 and my step dad just upgraded our PC from 386 to 486. We were on the way to pick up 4MB RAM stick and that's where I saw Doom at the store. I vividly remember holding that box with embossed lettering. My step dad looked at the system requirements and he decided to buy it to test out our new PC. We didn't have sound card installed yet but but the visuals alone changed the perception of gaming for me. It was totally unlike what my Sega did and I was hooked. It was couple months later when i saw Doom demo at compUSA with beastly 66mhz 19inch SVGA with sound blaster. Again, it freaking blew me away just with the sound. I must of been the few kids in the world that asked for sound blaster for Xmas that year lol
0:10 dammit Clint, you're a clone off your dad!
Aren't We All Clones of Are Dads??
This is so spot-on. I first got Doom for the PSX and my cousin and I were blown away, playing it non-stop for days. We even set 2 TV sets up side-by-side and played PVP..
I agree with you about Doom (2016) . In fact, as time goes on I realize the less I need or even want 'the next thing'. Doom is amazing to this day, and if you want a 'modern' Doom then Brutal Doom fulfills that remarkably. New games will come along that are awesome, and as someone who loves them at a technical level (board, card, video, mind, take your pick) I'll always be interested in what's going on.
But when it comes time to sit down and pick something to play. Sorry to say, the reason some of these games are Classics is not just because they were good for their time, but that they continue to be good for arguably all time.
I'm actually surprised Doom (2016) is good.
Wow you are getting SO GOOD at this! I love that shot panning upwards over the boxes when the gold banner is hit by that highlight
Thank you!
+Lazy Game Reviews Its like a proffesional car channel now. Keep up the excellent work Clint!
So, basically, Doom was for your childhood what Total Annihilation was for mine?
What an interesting way of talking, information depth, storytelling. Great photos and video effects, personal family stories and especially way to show newbies the enthusiasm you experienced. This is the best summary of how doom really is.
There's so much Doom in here, that the word Doom sounds so funny now.
+MrRaivokasMagma
DUUUM
I worked at a University that was looking at switching networks from DEC Pathworks to either Netware or NT. We sat through a demo of Netware, IPX, etc, and the group of us in the room had a very bright, collective bulb appear above our heads: IPX meant multiplayer DOOM!! The uni went with NT, but we geeks had all the ammo we needed to boot to DOS, load network drivers, toss in a little IPX and play DOOM in what became VERY extended “lunch hour massacres.” It was awesome!
I have pretty much the same story from my childhood:
when i was 3 years old i had a Sega Master system, and used to play Rastan, Alex kidd and another couple of games, but i wasn't really hooked on them
Then, one day, my dad came home with HEXEN (which, if you don't know, is practically Doom in a REALLY dark fantasy/demoniac setting with A TON more violence and a couple more "puzzle" elements other than simple keys) and, since my dad has allways been kinda of a youngster and chill man, he did something that most parents would have never allowed their 4 years old kid to do...he let me play it through the whole game; of course i didn't manage to beat it until i was something like 7 years old but still..i've been playin Hexen since i was practically an infant!
still to this day i remember the first time i spawned as a cleric in the first map, looking back and seeing a key in dark cave that i couldn't access yet...my god...
still to this day i love Hexen; thanx to it i became really interested in videogames; thanx to it i was not simply playin them, i was researchin them, lookin for interesting ones ecc..it is what made me fell in love with videogames
It also shaped my tastes: still to this day i am OBSESSED with medieval history, dark fantasy settings and challengin gory combat (no wonder the Dark Souls/Demon's souls/Bloodborne games are my favourite)
Loved Hexen. I was around 10-11 when playing it. Loved the darkness, the monsters, the atmosphere and the puzzles and level design, the music and sounds and everything. It just went straight into your head and merged with your imagination as a kid. You don't get that feeling anymore, when you have cleared out a room or a part of a level from monster and you actually feeling to stay there because it felt safe, while you could here the daemons in the distance somewhere behind some walls.
"Oh fuck that, I'm not going there. I'm staying here, perhaps I can grow some potatoes and mushrooms to live on."
Bark
That's why i'm mostly into retro games
the only games that, recently, made me feel what you're talkin about, are the games of the "souls serie" (Demon's souls; Dark souls 1-2-3; Bloodborne) and an handful of other titles like Pillars of eternity
I'm loving the new release, I haven't played most of the different games of it but I have good memories of 1 and 2
I always drooled when I would see screenshots of doom back in the day because I did not own a PC... I didn't play doom until it was released on the original playstation and I loved it. I saw half life and unreal reviewed in computer and video games magazine later on and there was no way I was missing out again so I upgraded to PC gaming and never looked back :)
LOL @ Clint's Doom intro story. When I was a kid I stayed at my Aunt and Uncle's house for a family vacation, with my parents and younger brothers staying at a nearby Grandma's house leaving me by myself. My cool uncle showed by Wolfenstein 3D, and I played so much of it during that trip instead of sleeping that I made myself sick from sleep deprivation over those 4-5 days. I couldn't stop, though, I was so blown away by what a computer could do.
5:47 ... Wait.... Whhaaa?
It's a reference to Two Best Friends Play
+rickonami RIP AND TEAR. NOW IM RADIO ACTIVE. THAT CANT BE GOOD.
Best sound effects in a shooter ever made. Still pack an incredible and to date unparalleled punch.
25 years later two years ago 🤔 clint confirmed time traveller
The love you have for this game comes across so well in this Retrospective
IDDQD
+OMA2k oh the password to be invincible ohhhhhhhhh the memory
+Rorikon King : Make good use of all those weapons! ;)
nah man...IDBEHOLD L ftw^^
IDSPISPOPD
IDKFA
Your introduction to DOOM was almost exactly like my own. Thanks for the walk down memory lane and another awesome review.
13:21 I really hope you get to play as Homer in that Simpsons mod.
3 years later, you do.
When my father bought me Doom we didn't even have a SoundBlaster. I played probably a combined total of 200 hours of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom with nothing but motherboard beeps on a 386! I remember to get them to run at all I had to hit the '-' key until the render window was as small as possible in the center of the screen. Thanks for the reviews, they bring back so many fond memories.
That Star Wars conversion is HIGHLY inaccurate! Storm troopers ALWAYS miss! :p
What a classic this is...
I remember when I still had a MMX200 with Win98SE in use.
Sure around this time Doom was a bit dated but a back then friend of mine gave me a copy of Doom1, Doom2 and Final Doom on one disc.
Played the shit out of it, especially since my computer (that still exists) has no 3D acceleration to play to much else.
Right now I'm planning to do a retro LAN with friends that also all seem to love that old stuff.
Doom is definitely on our list, just because it's so great and balanced in death match.
Thanks for the review, great stuff as always!
I think my testosterone levels were boosted by 274% from watching this video.
Before, I couldn't grow a beard. Now, it's 12 feet long and indestructible.
WeirdoTZero I've played DOOM, Duke Nukem, Serious Sam, and Quake so much that I grew a neck beard and my balls have dropped down the floor and turned into steel.
Been wanting to see a review about Doom from you forever. You always talked about how amazing it is, I was surprised you didnt have a review sooner.
Since Quake's turning 20 next month, are you gonna give it a look at?
Used to play that on the N64.
Recently bought the BFG version of Doom 3 from Steam for the Lost Mission campaign. It includes Doom and Doom 2. I played them all when they first came out. Now I'm replaying all of them to earn the Steam achievements nearly half a lifetime later. My computer upgrades over the years have been timed with the release of a new Doom game, including Doom 2016. That's how you know this is an amazing franchise.
1:37 Totally Legit Warez. Sure, I feel you bro.
And now, the 5th episode is on the way!
Pure dedication by one and only John Romero himself, even 25 years after the game's release, he cares.
are you by any chance gonna make a Quake review? one of the best horror themed action games ever made. I hope id goes back to that or mesh it with the "Stroggos" aesthetic of the later games.
+Darian Ferdogo Errant Signal did a pretty good video on it a while back, I'd recommend giving that a look
***** I uh... just saw it... he has some intersting thoughts on the early FPS games... not my cup of tea. Too preachy and self righteous. I wouldve rather he focused on the aesthetic of Quake as a Techo Gothic horror action game which is probably the only other game of its kind besides System Shock 2.
Man, this game... When the only game magazine published an review of Doom, I was hooked. Soon after I got my hands on the 1.1 shareware with only PC speaker sound to accompany me. Later we somehow got the full 1.2 version (an illegal copy with a cool intro by a group from Italy) and I spent too much time on it. My dad took me, my friends and my brother to his work on weekends where we played the game on the local LAN together (where the slowest PC determined the game speed). That was the time when CRT monitors needed those external filters, but we still all got headaches. Worth it!
If anybody wants a fantastic overview of Doom in general, check out Ahoy's retrospective, it's long, in depth and awesome.
I still remember staying over at a friend's house when I was like 6 or 7 and after a day of doing something fun, my friend's dad would always tease us by asking us if we wanted to rent a couple of movies oooor.... (long pause) play Doom. The answer was always the same. Little bits of it always stuck out in my mind for years afterwards until I got my own copy, one in particular being the pinky demon in the maze on E1M4. Still awesome, still creepy.
I'm 23, I play Doom since 1999, and to this day I still get anxious in that maze with the pinky
It is fantastic
What a fantastic review of my favourite game of all time, thank you! At 12 years old, Doom used to scare the absolute shit out of me but always brought me back for more.
This is a really fun and partly personal review with a lot of background information. I'm a big fan of your reviews keep up the good work :)
Doom was a passion project, that's why all the "Doom clones" seem derivative.
I had a similar first exposure to Doom story as you did LGR. I grew up on a farm in Minnesota and back in the day computers were too expensive for our family. Plus you didn't need them nearly as much as today. We did however have a SNES. My brother came home one night from the rental store with this scary red cartridge. I was amazed just by seeing a red cartridge. He then played it as I watched. I eventually got to play it before he returned it, but I always died super early. Years later my brothers moved out and my mom bought me the PS1. I then found a used copy for Doom on PS1 and played it constantly. Finally, I hit high school and it was time that I finally got a PC. It wasn't special, but was great for surfing the Internet and writing papers for class. It wasn't long until I bought a copy of Ultimate Doom with Doom 2 and master levels. I remember finally playing Doom on PC and being initially let down because I was so used to the sounds and music from the Playstation version. To this day I still go back just to play the music, but with a lack of a save feature really makes it tough to sit down for long play sessions.