Doom is celebrating its 20 year anniversary

[bash]

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5195508/doom-20th-anniversary-retrospective

I was gonna chuck this in the headlines section but I hate it when its not really a proper headline but my god . . . . . has it really been 20 years since I played this landmark, still pant****tingly scary (with headphones on in the dark) smooth as **** gameplay game?

Where were you and how old when you first played/saw/experienced Doom?

[PaTaito]

i was about 13 when my mate put the freeware version on floppy disc for me....amazing.

[J0e Musashi]

Atari Jaguar was my first foray into Doom. I then bought a USA PS1 purely for the game (because there wasn't a Japanese version), which I played over the Christmas holidays of 1995.

[Dogg Thang]

Hmmm... good question and I honestly don't think I can remember. 20 years ago I was 18 so it's not like I was a tiny child but it almost feels like Doom has been a part of my history in some shape or form forever. I do remember that, even though I had played it on PC, the first version I ever owned myself was the Saturn version and they replaced the music in that one and it creeped the hell out of me. One track had babies crying in the background. Tons of levels too.

I loved that feeling of dread when you hit a switch knowing full well that it was going to activate some hideous trap and walls were going to come down all around placing you right in the middle of a large horde of creatures. And I think some of the levels afterwards, the add-ons and Doom 2, got even better for that sort of thing. Some were just plain cruel and that was the appeal.

A true classic. It is so easy to see why first person shooters were known as Doom clones for so many years. Wolfenstein may have got there first but Doom was the first to get it really right and it set the benchmark high.

[Atticus]

My first experience was the 32X version. Thought it was excellent. The sound effects were something else ... that piggie snuffling sound the pinkies make *shudder*

[charlesr]

Epic PC action for me at Uni. 4 player network. I had dreams about it... Being chased by those pink pig monsters. So much time spent making levels too.

[Brad]

Final year of Uni multiplayer mayhem! A revelation into what games could be.

[bash]

Glad Im not the only (although hardly surprising) who has fond memories. I remember doing the Cyber Demon level where you could just hear that mutha fooker stomping around. My cousin who introduced me to it had crudely setup some sony speakers to an amp and wired it to his soundcard somehow. The sound was epic. He'd temporarily placed a matress against one speaker as I'd stayed the night before. I was running around so fast in the level that the bastard demon caught us unawares from behind and roared so loud it blew the speaker and chucked the mattress towards us.

SCARED THE SHEET OUT OF US and we loved it LOL

no matter what pc/laptop I have they always have a copy of Doom installed (although now I use Doom Legacy which is my fave mods, the other 3d ones are pants IMHO)

[MisterBubbles]

I first played it on the PC 20 years ago, but fondly also remember the PS1 version and Final Doom on PS1. Im not sure what the level is called, but it has screaming babies and children in the background and it truely freaks me out so much i want to stop playing it.

[k0pp0]

Played it on pretty much every format. PS1 version was one of my favourites with the music and lighting differences to the PC, but unfortunately the lack of levels sucked.

Another shout out for Doom Legacy. I even played the remake made in the quake engine.

Pretty sure Doom was the sole reason for delayed software releases in my first job. Then same issues when quake came out.

[QualityChimp]

My first experience of Doom was playing it on a friend's PC at university.

I was totally engrossed and immersed when the headphones were on. I think my friend and his flatmates found it amusing to hear me jump and swear at the computer as it scared the living daylights out of me!

I bought the PS1 version and loved that. Well, apart from the secret "nightclub" level with the insane high speed techno playing in the background. That really was a vision of hell...

[charlesr]

I tried it on the GBA too

Anyone seen the vids of the cyberdemon being taken down with a chainsaw? lol.

[CMcK]

I have a bizzare affection for the 3DO version of Doom. You had or shrink the play field to get a decent frame rate but it had a great red book audio soundtrack and strafe mapped to the shoulder buttons. Actually played really well with that control layout.

[rmoxon]

Doom was probably the first FPS that was actually good (no, Wolfenstein was never a good game and it certainly hasn't aged well, unlike doom).

The fact that people still play it today and actually enjoy themselves while doing so shows how amazing a game it is.

It also features one of the best ever shotguns in a game.

[nakamura]

The 3DO version was utterly dire.