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Re: "30th Anniversary of DOOM"
They made a new version of Doom in 2020, iirc, so I expect younger people still know about it at least a little bit, but I could be wrong.
I never played Doom, but we used to have floppies of Wolfenstein 3D that I played when I was really young (around middle school, iirc). I don't know what ever happened to it, my parents might have sold it or something.
Dec 10 · 3 weeks ago
I sunk many hours into Doom 1. It’s still installed via freedoom or zdoom because I go through nostalgia moments.
Such a landmark piece of software. Even if someone might not enjoy first-person shooters, DOOM has undeniable influence in nearly every aspect of modern video game design and even computing as a whole.
Infinite kudos to Mr. Carmack and his decision to put the engine into the GPL license so it can live on forever on every possible piece of hardware.
I might set up a Chocolate/Crispy Doom server later this week or next week, to celebrate this in multiplayer. I'm in GMT+3.
30th Anniversary of DOOM — It's a big anniversary today for the original DOOM: first released on December 10, 1993 on MS-DOS. This game needs no introduction, although I'm increasingly wondering how well known it is to the younger folks. It keeps popping up in various places, at least when people make it run on unexpected devices and in silly places like this: Personally, I have a deep connection with the game as it...