Doom Turns 10!

SillyGoose

<div class="IPBDescription">it doesnt really seem like 10 years...</div> Doom turns 10 today. If you havent noticed gamespy is doing a week long special on it. But today is the big day for id. It really doesnt seem like a whole 10 years...anyways, post your favorite doom moments and whatnot on here.

Infinitum

wai for Dooooooooooooooooooom

hmmmm quite a short period of time really. 10 years. Look where we are now...
Can't wait to see what happens in the next 10 years....

tankefugl

Played Doom secretly in the middle of the night, when I was supposed to be in bed.

I remember mapping for Doom. Ah, the joy! And replacing the chainsaw by my own allmighty vacum cleaner!

Hmmmmm ... must see if I can find my vacum cleaner again. It rocked, as the chainsaw (and the vacum cleaner inherited it) had this funny "stick the monster to the weapon" effect.

RaVe

I remembered way back then when I was 10, I finally got past those 2 Hell Barons with a rocket launcher in Doom Shareware <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

And of course, don't forget shotgunning Pinky right in the kisser <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Shloom

I played doom when I was like 4 or 5...gave me nightmares till I was 8.

esuna

I feel tonight i shall be cracking open the old demon and have a little play around for old time's sake. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Dubers

Wow I thought it was older than that. I would ave been 10 at the time of it's release. Glad I'm not 10 anymore.

Shockeh

Possibly, in honour of the great DOOM, we should have a multiplayer game of <a href='http://zdoom.org/' target='_blank'>ZDOOM!</a>

Burr

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DOOM!!

<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

I was 12 when I got my first taste of this game. I remember getting in trouble for installing the shareware on the school computers!!

<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Mom:  What is that game?!  Its so violent!
Me: Its Doom!!
Mom:  Ok, play nice dear.
Me: I will!
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

ANeM

I remember talking to my friends about doom a while ago. They happen to be an RPG nut and were complaining about how they probably wouldn't finish FFX before FFX2 came out. I just responced with
"It could be worse, I haven't finished Doom2 yet and heck, by the time doom3 comes out Doom2 will be like 10 years old." Yeah.. I'm pathetic. I know. But each time I pick up either of them to play I later get distracted and by the time I want to play again I've got a new computer or OS or something and my save files are just gone.
Oh and shockwave Jdoom > Zdoom.

Gliss

I remember playing DOOM, I was like 4 (yes, I know I'm a nublet). I wanted to play it all the time. "Hey, guys, let's play doom! Doom? Come on, doom! Let's play, already!" and then I'd dropkick my brother in the shins if he didn't <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

However, very recently, I went on a Doom-spree. I played Doom 1 and 2 over and over, for like 5 hours straight. Beat both games twice (I had to use godmode once, though), and then afterwards, it was around 11...
I went down to the kitchen to cook some food, and when I turned on the microwave, I swear I could hear the sound of the Imps and zombies (former human sar...seargents...sar...bleh...) dying over and over, for a whole minute. Getting freaked out, I went to bed, and the whirring of my computer sounded like a billion Lost Souls attacking. After that, I decided no more Doom for me.

Moquiao

ok am i the ONLY one who thought this thread was about DOOManiac at first?

Shockeh

Nah, DOOManiac just ACTS 10. <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->

Owen1

sweet ol reliable doom... how i love thee

XSZ

John Romero's head on a stick <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> OMG GET TEH CHAINSAW!!!

Palmaneen

Hey, I haven't finished DooM either. I've completed the two first episodes, but after that I just haven't pulled my finger out of my **** so to speak. Same with DooM2, I've never been able complete map 23 (or something like that) before I loose my saves <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->
And Doom Legacy > jDoom

MonsieurEvil

Finding the Doom shareware disk at an Egghead and saying, 'hmmmm this looks pretty interesting'. Then coming out of a haze 3 days later realising that I had spent an entire weekend glued in front of my 386 and had slept for maybe 4 hours, and skipped two friday classes.

Then a dormmate and I realising that with a nul modem cable, we could be playing each other right then. And not having enough money for one, leading us to steal one from the unlocked computer lab (the ONLY computer lab - this was 1993) at 3am and begin our multiplayer obsessions that have lasted to this very day.

Shloom

<span style='font-size:30pt;line-height:100%'>HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!</span>

OttoDestruct

<!--QuoteBegin--MonsieurEvil+Dec 10 2003, 01:34 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MonsieurEvil @ Dec 10 2003, 01:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Finding the Doom shareware disk at an Egghead and saying, 'hmmmm this looks pretty interesting'. Then coming out of a haze 3 days later realising that I had spent an entire weekend glued in front of my 386 and had slept for maybe 4 hours, and skipped two friday classes.

Then a dormmate and I realising that with a nul modem cable, we could be playing each other right then. And not having enough money for one, leading us to steal one from the unlocked computer lab (the ONLY computer lab - this was 1993) at 3am and begin our multiplayer obsessions that have lasted to this very day. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
lmfao.

Nil_IQ

I am one of the few people who has actually completed doom, although I did skip most of the 3rd chapter and used IDKFA to beat the boss. Also the pink things scared the hell out of me.

Well, I WAS about seven <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

The disk it came on also had the sharewares of heretic, descent and Warcraft. This was when my gaming career truly began.

The_Redeemer

Doom... That takes me back...

*Takes a sip of his drink*

Good times.

DOOManiac

Happy birthday to my favorite <a href='http://members.cox.net/doomaniac/meandsamus.jpg' target='_blank'>space marine</a>! :D

And a very special happy birthday to my favorite chainsaw:
<img src='http://www.rome.ro/images/Random_Pic/doom_chainsaw.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
^^ Yes, this is the actual chainsaw used in DOOM. Pic snagged from <a href='http://www.rome.ro' target='_blank'>rome.ro</a>.

I also believe this marks around the 9th year or so of me having this nickname. Kinda scary to think that I've been DOOManiac, kicking nubs on IRC, when some of you were still in yer daddy's pants... :P

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p.s. Thanks for caring guys :P
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pardzh

Awesome, didn't know about this.

I still play Doom regularly over the school LAN because my CompSci teacher is obsessed with it. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Mullet

I was only 7 when I got DOOM....I remember staying up late playing that game when I should have been in bed. That game started my love for FPS games....and gore <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->


Im getting zdoom right now so I can get the old memories back

SillyGoose

yea Ive been playing doom2 via legacy for awhile now. Good fun.

Xanieth

Lets go play zdoom. Like now.

Liku

DOOM? The game I never beat/cared for? Wow. Cool news. ~_^

Vulgar_Menace

I wish much caek and pai to teh johns.

SoulSkorpion

Happy Birfday Doomy!...


...oh, wait. Nevermind <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Creepie

I remember using my old 4-track recorder to reverse the backtracking on the final level (where you had to fire the rockets through the little hole from the lift). Got it to work and if I remember right, it said: "to win the game, you must kill me, John Romero". And yeah, if you used noclip, and walked through the wall, there was his severed head on a stick hehe.

AllUrHiveRblong2us

Whoa.....I didn't realise that Doom was so young. This means I was 7 before my parents could not allow me to play doom. Wow. This is one of the reasons I wish I was born in the late 70s instead of the 80s.