Your Doom Story

[thund3r]

Remember that first time you saw doom, remember playing it late at night and jumping because an invisable pinky was behind you. well heres your chance to tell your story when/where/format you first played doom.....

[FATAL]

Hey come on, it was over ten years ago...

[thund3r]

heh for some maybe...

[Bomberman9000]

The first time i played doom was when i was 7. Can't remember much but i remember being scared of Imps and thinking they were the most powerful enemy in the game :p

[DooMMooD]

i remember watching my dad play on our old xt, a comp from steve jobs, and i thought it was the coolest thing i had ever seen. we played together sometimes and i remember once that my dad and i opened a door and a pinkie was right there. needless to say we shat ourselves silly. we were hooked for life.

[thund3r]

ok 1st time i played doom.... was....
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on a snes :(

[FATAL]

Ooooh! Now I remember something! Me and my friend when we used to play DooM a LOT, always thought that when DooM starts, and the demo runs, AI is actually playing at the moment! We always laughed a lot when he died and thinking that we're damn better than some friggin' computer AI! *cool*

[thund3r]

lol yea that would be kool if id had done that, but alas, lack of advanced technology back all those years ago..

[Crono]

I first played in 1993 on SNES, back when the Cacodemons were the scariest things i have ever set my eyes on.

[chubzdoomer]

I first played when i was.....5, maybe 6.

My dad was installing it on my computer we used to have. It had like 4 megs of ram, and we thought it pwned because it could run doom.

I think i can remember seeing an imp on the installation or something like that. we got it because one of my dads friends at work let him borry the diskettes to install it. (4-5 at the time, lol!).

I can remember watching my dad play until i got old enough to. At about 7 years when i understood how to use a computer, i remember playing it and not being able to stop. I remember i would sit and play the same episodes over and over and over so much that i know about every little secret spot and tactic in each level. (and every cheat, bwhaha!)

The funny thing is, today, 7 years later, i am still hooked on it.

Funny how a game that is over 10 years old can hook you. Doom is magical, ill tell ya

Anyways, thats my story. Long live Doom.

[Abrax]

I started playing it when I was 6, and it scared myself and my father (at some points). I can remember thinking how cool a cacodemon looked, and I thought that they were the hardest enemies in the game (how wrong I was). I used to play only the first two or three maps of each episode, on skill 1, because it was way too hard otherwise. I fell out of contact with the game, when I started playing Heretic (now that was scary when you snuck downstairs to play it at night, in the dark and something stalked you through the damp corridors of Silverspring), and eventually Hexen, which I still play now.

Hexen was the first game I ever completed, and was the first game that I also never used cheats in, I completed it with all three classes on skill 1 (ok, I was a lot younger than I am now), and that filled me with a sense of achievment, that game mystified me. I still play it now, but in the form of KMOD.

Next, came Quake, (running in 3DFx Glide on a 4Mb VooDoo card =). That game was hard, even on the easier skill settings, it is mad to think back that I completed that game on Medium, with the Doom controls!

Then came Quake2, Hexen2, Duke 3D, Unreal, and Heretic 2, all completed with the Doom controls on Medium. I then came back into contact with Doom, picking up a copy of Doom Collectors Edition, because I really wanted to play the game again, since the disks it first came on were scattered (two disks were missing) and the fact that I had never played Final Doom.

I was in for a shock, Final Doom was hard (Plutonia at least), and besides, Doom looked better than ever at 640x480, although the spectres looked f*cked ( a problem that I associate with 3D accelerators), which are nowadays shipped with every computer sold (no more VGA only). At least Zdoom sorts this =).

After this, I started to look around the Internet for other Doom things, after being disapointed with a compilation CD of wads and utilities I found that my father had, finding not a single wad interesting. Next, I found Korax Mod for Hexen (KMOD). I downloaded GLDoom as well, but couldn't get on with the program, I think mainly due to the fact it was never finished (some maps were f*cked, E3M3 for example). I then stumbled across JDoom, a brilliant download, and one that encouraged me to reinstall tha old copy of Heretic, which I then patched up for the extra two episodes.

Then what followed was a mass download of different source ports, and Megawads...

Not even the likes of Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament could pry me away from Doom... although I played them until I was bored stiff of them.

Then I got into editing, downloading DeePsea, because I couldn't make head nor tail of the other editors, but now I use Doom Builder as well as DeePsea (awesome 3D mode).

Now, after huge amounts of shocking wads, comes my first megawad, that I only started a couple of weeks ago, and intent to replace every map now, so it will be released later than I first thought... then theres just the problem of finding someone to host it or something (I'm not an expert on this sort of thing as you may have guessed).

Anyways, here's the story, its kinda pre release...

The demons have found a new gateway into reality! On a remote colonial world, its surface covered in jungle, the UAC founded a colony. This colony was a cover up for a new secret project, and the colony was for UAC employees and their families. A scouting mission to the planet had discovered a mysterious temple out in the steaming jungles, strange symbols etched into the crumbling, ancient stone. The UAC matched the symbols to records recovered from the Phobos moon base, and made their bid to colonise the planet priority. Setting up a fake buyer, a large complex was constructed on the planet, with a sprawling city nearby to house the employees and their families.

Research at the site began immediately, items and artefacts being carefully removed before being taken away and examined at the laboratory complex. A year went by, and a new area was discovered inside the temple, soon after this however, all contact was lost with the colony.

You and your team have just landed to sent to investigate, yourself and Mikhail were ordered to create a perimeter while the rest of the team went in, leaving you outside. You take a little stroll around, and then head back towards the ship, it’s only a downed transmitter anyway. You rest your shotgun against a support, and light a cigar, sitting on the ramp of the ship. Half an hour passes, and you light another cigar, waiting for the team to come back out, but more concerning, where the frag is Mikhail?

Unholstering your sidearm, you decide to take a look. A quick look around some outbuildings answers your question, Mikhail is face down in the dirt, blood had flown heavily from what look like giant claw marks on his back, but he's dead now... the blood has stopped flowing. You never heard anything…

"Shit!" You curse, dropping your cigar before sprinting back towards the ship. Turning a corner, the ship comes back into view... and explodes, throwing debris everywhere. Wrecked. Shit again. Ammunition begins to cook off, dull explosions in the flames, followed by bright streaks of light into the sky.

You have the feeling of being watched, and turn to see something lurch out of the bushes behind you. Screaming, you flee for the entrance of the outpost, boots squelching in the mud, temples pounding. Scrambling up a short set of wet concrete steps, you key the release for a service door, sealing it behind yourself.

There is a loud thumping on the other side of the door; it stops, followed by a scratching and a rubbing of the door. You collapse, back against the wall, legs outstretched, panting heavily.

Where the hell am I? You think to yourself, taking a quick glance around, it looks like some sort of fuel storage area…

The first beams of morning light begin to shine through the window. You pull yourself to your feet, and set off into the base, with the feeling of animal rage coursing through your veins...

hat's all for now folks... back to working on it.

[Stealthy Ivan]

Hmm... Back in 1993/1994 I first used to play at my uncles house cause I did not have a computer. Then in 1995 I got my first PC and played doom for at least 4 to 5 hours a day. It was all down hill from there!:D

[FATAL]

What do you mean by this "down hill"? *confused*

[thund3r]

dont u mean up hill?

[chubzdoomer]

funny how Abrax has a post twice as long as the one i made before the moderator edited it.

My post was definetely longer than what it is now.......so whoever deleted like 80% of it.....why?

[Stealthy Ivan]

Down hill is a figure of speech.... By saying downhill I meant I was addicted like doom was a drug.... Nuff said! *rolleyes*

[Ninja_of_DooM]

4th time this has been up now.:D

[FATAL]

If DooM is a drug, then it's a perfect one!

[blackgas]

I played doom1 when i was 15 or so.
Had the shareware for ever, still my favorite. Remember the first time you heard a baron scream its greeting!
Fond memories of episode 2, taking bong rips and blasting through the crate maze listening to beastie boys ill communication.

[blackgas]

i remember, doom shareware is what made me switch from macs, all those years ago....

[Abrax]

My post is basically two posts, but I decided not to double post.

[dr_qui]

My first go on doom was in 1993 after my girlfriend (now wife) told me about this great game she was playing at work. At the time i had an Atari st which i thought was the mutts nutts (sad huh ?). A fter seeing doom run on our pc (super fast 286-16 !, no soundcard ,- the bizz !) i just knew that life would neverbe the same again. I'm 37 now and it is still the best game ever. Can't wait for doom 3.

[DooMMooD]

my dad is 48 and he loves counter strike, halo, mechassault, half-life, SoF, all those games. but DooM is still his all time favorite, as it is mine. i plan on passing down the tradition through the generations.

[Abrax]

The tradition MUST be passed down generations lol :)

[Chainsaw]

I think I heard about it at school when I was 11. Got the shareware on a magazine coverdisk, and I was hooked. Never actually played any more DOOM I levels than the shareware, cos we bought doom2 when it came out, and with the new weapons and monsters doom1 just didnt seem as good.

Then I started mapping, and made 4 maps using DEU and DEU2, then I made a map that had too many nodes for deu to handle *eek*. I got very upset.

[greekwolf]

Wow, I love this forum! Didn't even know it existed until recently :D

I remember seeing Doom for the very first time on my step-dad's "blazing fast" 486, back in 1994. Up until that point, I had kind of considered PC games to be primitive and ugly...and not really that appealing. I had just graduated high school and was hooked on playing my Sega CD system.. which at the time I thought was mindblowing. Honestly, I didn't think that video games could ( or would ) get any better than that beautiful FMV. lol

Anyways, a year earlier in 93, my step-dad had introduced a cool little game to me called Castle Wolfenstein 3D. It was great fun and I had a blast gunning down nazis, dogs and frankensteins. I thought the whole 3D gimmick of seeing everything through first person perspective was really cool and innovative. But after playing that for a few days, I went back to my "superior" Sega CD system.

Well one Saturday night when I was hanging out over there for a cookout, my step-dad called me into his office to show me his new game. He was playing through the second or third level of Doom, where all the lights were flashing on and off and you couldn't see around the next corner. He sat me down and handed the controls over to me. To put it bluntly, I was a nervous wreck. I could hear all the groans and snarls of the demons, hiding in the shadows and just waiting to spring out. I managed to pick up the shotgun somewhere along the way, and took great satisfaction in blowing the spawn of satan back to hell. While everyone else in the house was eating hamburgers and hotdogs.. my nose was plastered to the screen all night long. After that fateful evening, I was hooked.

Over the next year, I saved up my money and bought a shiny new PC with a pentium 75! State of the art stuff back in 1995. I got Doom, Doom2 and Heretic that very same week.. and spent the next several years relishing the sweet gaming goodness.

Nowadays, I'm just as hooked as ever. Using the legacy program, I've gone back and played through Doom all over again.. and have started Heretic. Playing in super high rez makes the game a completely different experience. It's awesome.