When did you begin DOOMING?

[Dark~Shadow]

I started Dooming (Playing Doom) when it first came out, and been playing each one for a while, when did you start Dooming?

[swiftfox]

My mom had bought a packard bell (Good old 486) and her friend gave us the doom shareware and wolfenstien 3d.I bought the full version around 1995.

[Bomberman9000]

I started when I was about 7or 8 but back then I only had the shareware and wasn't a big fan back then. Then I got Doom 2 around last year and now i'm hooked.

[Grazza]

Early 1994. I found a copy of the shareware on a colleague's computer when I had been asked to help free up some disk space for them. I didn't really get into it until Doom2 came out though. For some reason, E1 has never truly excited me.

[CtrlKeyEmAll]

My first experience with DOOM was back in 93-94 when we played it on the Panasonic 3D0 *bliss* Remember those?

[PumpkinSmasher]

I started Dooming when my Uncle picked up a copy of Doom II during chirstmas 1994, the following year my Dad got my The Ultimate Doom. I played for a bout a year and began to lose interest. About 3 years ago I pulled out my copy of Doom, and then wandered upon this site. Now I edit Doom.

[The Undertaker]

Rented SNES version back in 96 (red cartridge caught my eye) then later bought it. Then next year got a new PC with a fast P166. Shortly after that I saw Doom2 and Hexen for sale together at Wal-Mart for $10 and decided to pick it up and been playing it every since then.

[Lord Kaizen]

Since I played Doom 64 which was before I had a comp. Then I bought the Doom Collectors Edition when it first came out, played through all the games loved them, then I found Doomsday. Yippee!!!

[Catsy]

I got Doom (first shareware, then registered) in '93, and played it religiously on my 386DX-40 with 4M RAM. Had to play in low detail most of the time, and got what in retrospect I'd probably estimate as 15-20 fps most of the time. Loved every minute. Downloaded and played practically every PWAD I could get off ftp.cdrom.com.

Got Doom II when it first came out, studied anything I could find on wad editing, and made a few attempts that produced nothing I'd care to see released (and one thing which was--I still don't know whether or not I'm responsible for the "minefield" usage of voodoo dolls because of it). Got into Heretic, then Hexen (by which time I had a 486 DX4-100 with 5M of memory), and then fell completely in love with Strife.

Didn't play Doom for a long time after that, since by '98 I'd gotten into games that used mouselook, and couldn't stand the abomination that gets called mouse support in the original Doom-engine games. Then late last year I discovered Vavoom, and a few months ago Doomsday--and have been pretty well reinvested with passion for the games again.

[Kamex]

I orignally played Chex Quest when I was a little kid. I like the concept of colored keys and I liked the great gameplay style associated with Chex Quest.

Later I discovered that Chex Quest was actually a mod of Doom. Unfortunatly, by this time, Chex Quest (and, consequentially Doom) would no longer run on my computer. So I played the Doom trial on my old computer. My friend Chris saw me playing it, and told me how much he despised it. He gave me his old copy of Doom because he didn't want it anymore.

I later discovered Zdoom, and was finally able to play the game on my new computer. I got eventually got bored of it, and found Doomsday, which is what I used for the longest time. But something was missing. The game didn't seem as scary as it used to. In the end, I went back to the original Doom once I got DOS installed on my computer, and that is what I currently use.

[MasterOfPuppets]

i first played it on a friends computer way back in 95 or 96. we got it for playstation about 99. then i dug it up and put it on this computer when we got it in early 03. i've been editing for about 1 and 1/3 year. gotten pretty good. once i get some more maps to my name i'll make the veterans tremble with my 1337 53c70|2 5/\/\45|-|3|2 5|<1|_|_5!!

btw, thanks for reminding me. we found a really old copy of Next Generation magize at school (94) and there was an add for The Ultimate Doom inside. i pulled it and now i'm going to put it on my wall like a poster!

[Wicked Anime Kid]

I played doom1 shareware in december 1993, back in '95 a friend of mine copied doom2 to floppy disk (I still remember me screwing around with the files to get it to work). in 1999 I found the doom collectors edition and in 2000 I found out about jDoom and Newdoom (i visited the main page alot cause of the shots for jdoom, but I never joined the forums). Since 2000 i've been working with doomsday stuffage and now, in 2004 I bought doom3:)

[ultimatesaiyan605]

around '95. my dads friend don brought DooM ][ over and i loved playing it. i l;ost DooM at aropund '97 because mom didnt like it. then in '02 i got the collectors edition, and ive been obsessed with that ever since.

[Harry]

I started in arond 1995 when I got DooM trilogy, (ultimate, doom 2 and master levels:p) because I think I had preveously played doom 1 shareware and was hooked, stopped for a bit, because of Battlezone and Unreal tournament:p and last year I descovered jDooM:D:D

[unbottledup]

Right after it came out in 1993, my grandmother got it for me, the Shareware version. I didn't get an offical version till Doom 2 which I got from my aunt.

[primus1236]

I started in 1995, when I got the shareware version on a disc of demo's for games. I was hooked, sadly though, my mother didn't like it, and I got in trouble all the time for playing. At one point as punishment for playing, my hard drive was formatted, that basically prevented me from playing for a while, but as soon as I got an OS back on my computer, back to DooM. I started collecting pwads as soon as I found out about doomworld's idgames archives. Then I started finding out about different source ports, I got about 10 in one day. *bliss* In 2003, I found jDooM, and in 2004, I found newdoom. :)

[DoomedAce]

My uncle installed a few games, including DooM II, on my old PC when I was 6 (1994). I rarely played DooM then, because the pinkies always gave me nightmares (that was before I ever laid an eye on Barons and Viles ;)). Then my PC got smashed, and DooM was lost.
That is, until in 1996, when copies of Ultimate DooM and DooM II caught my eye while I was looking in the CD shelves of the local library. So I took them home and installed them on my new PC. That was the first time I fully played through both games. Then I got bored of always playing the same levels and the game was snowed under.
I re-discovered the game roughly two years ago when I was cleaning up my disk. I played through both games again, and started looking for pages on the net about DooM (I had never done that before, because we didn't have internet yet before 1998). Then there was this horrible net-surfing accident that brought me here. I've sticked around ever since ;). That's also when I first started mapping.
Finally, I bought the Collector's Edition early this year and that was also the first time I played through Final DooM.

[Praetor Fenix]

Back in the day when it first came out I was always playing it. Then I started to gain more expierience. With nothing to do but always play doom. It wasn't long until I beat Ultimate doom on Nightmare. It took me long enough but it was hell on my own computer. I am still working on doom 2 nightmare along with final doom.

[It's Coming For You]

I first got the Doom Shareware Version when it first came out, back in the day.
My father finished it before me, haha.
I never got the full version until I rented Ultimate Doom from a video store, and now I have it. So, yay.

[FATAL]

hahah, I'd like to see the idiots who rent doom.

[doominsanity]

I started playing doom shareware around the time I got out of the Marine Corps.

OOOh Rah!

Semper fi do or die!

[Ffabbia]

I got hold of the original Doom shareware release shortly it appeared on the usenet group in 1993. I was at university at the time, The internet was a rare, and expensive thing here in the UK, but one of the guys had a parent with an internet connection...we had been reading about the forthcoming game for months, and were just about frothing at the mouth at the thought of getting hold of it.

The guy was unable to download the game when it first hit the net (think it was round about December) because the traffic was too heavy, but was able to get it around a week later...this was quickly distributed on zipped floppys to the rest of our slavering gang :)

I can't even imagine how much time I spent playing that damned game!!! It seemed that I could not think about anything else, I was sacrificing college work for it, spending nights in, huddled over my old 386, killing Cacodemons, all through the PC speaker as well...Soundcards were still a luxury, and I could not afford one. My poor wife was tempted to confiscate the PC after a few days, she had become a computer widow!

I ended up upgrading my PC to a 486......buying a soundcard...and then having to buy an additional 4 MB of memory, cos the sound slowed the game to a crawl...ALL JUST TO PLAY DOOM!!! how's that for commitment? By this time I had the full version of the game. And then it all began again with Doom II, and then Heretic and Hexen.

And I'm still playing today, using JDoom with 3D models, enhanced textures etc. I don't have the system spects to run Doom III, and so the original classic games still provide more than enough compensation.

[Salty Sam]

I began DOOMING back in 1994 when my brother got ahold of the shareware version of Doom. Oh, by the way, I was only 4 at the time.

[sirsinalot]

I had my doom enlightment in about 1994, i was about 3 at the time, my father used to play it on his 386, with internal hard drive sounds.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

1998 when one of my friends got PSX DooM. Loved it since then. When I got my first PC back in 1999 I surfed around and found Newdoom telling about a sequel to DooM II. Realised how old DooM was and got pretty excited for some reason. Got my copy of DooM CE in 2001, remembered about Newdoom and came back in 2002, realised there was a forum so I signed up. Been here since and have been mapping since then as well. Great stuff.:)

[MacDoomer]

My "Dooming" has two phases.

Phase 1: Intense Playing

This occured from around 1996-2000. A non-peaceful time when the most important things in life were video games (which they still are??? shhhh!). I played Hardcore for all those years, and purchased doom for every platform I could find it for (SNES, x86 PC, Macintosh, Jaguar, 3DO... never got the 32x version... bummer).

Phase 2: Intense Mapping, Moderate Playing

This time period consists of the years 2002-Current. I play weekly still, actually, mostly daily. If I go 2 days without playing I feel all strange. And the other vast majority of my time (while not taking care of college related school work... darn Marketing class...) is spent making maps for Doom...

I finally decided to become a member of a community such as new doom, not to long ago, and enjoy making fun of, getting along with, and generally causing havoc or being witness to it at least on the message boards.

Also, my weapon of choice is Legacy, for the particularly inquisitive.

[Torr Samaho]

december 11, 1993 ! *bang*

[Doom007]

Can't really remember when I started Dooming. I remember when it first came out for PC on 3 1/2 floppy disks, and was like 2 bucks. Looked at it and seen it was shareware, so I didn't get it, but at that time there was no way in hell my dad would have let me have it on the PC. So probably around 96' when I lived with my ex. Then in 99' I got into making wads. When I stumbled upon Doom Builder 7 or 8 months ago, I just started cranking out wads then.

[MR_ROCKET]

I started Dooming when the shareware first came out, been playing ever since.
Not long after Doom2 was released, a local bbs popped out here in town called The Megasphere BBS where many of us played Doom2 dm back in early 96-99, even had a latter system going , the bbs also ended up supporting duke3d and quake, but we all stuck to Doom2 :P around that time was at my peek of Doom2 DM but can still hold my ground ;) aslo about the time when I started mappin.- ah the good ol days
Then watched as each sourceport was born. windoom, gldoom, zdoom, legacy pretty much in the order.
been fallowing them ever since, mostly legacy and zdoom though. but I try to still keep track of all of them :)

yes there is a such thing as DM roots heh

[jetflock]

I started on this thing you used to call a 386 sx. (forget if it was sx or dx, but i know it was the one that was faster). Immediately I wanted to start editing with it. This is the first computer game( outside of monkleyisland) which cought my attention. The community was so much cooler before it went and lost its virginity.

[Ninja_of_DooM]

. The community was so much cooler before it went and lost its virginity.
Says he who registered in 2004.;)

[FATAL]

Says he who registered in 2004.;)
You can never know if he has had some previous accounts or if he has been on some other forums.

It says that Mystic joined march 2004, and I think that most of us know that he joined around the same time as Big al, somewhere in 2000.

[jetflock]

are you going to be that nitpicky? lol. i vuz here.

[FATAL]

Well, you can't prove that you've been here before.

[jetflock]

Oh yeah? Well, your dad works for my dad! Lol.
Seriously though, I can do without the "recognition" of
being labeled "old school".

[Doom_Dude]

I think we can take his word that he was around in the virgin days or whatever. :p

[FATAL]

I think we can take his word that he was around in the virgin days or whatever. :p
Haha, not that I care, but it's fun to say that people are wrong until proven otherwise.

[DoomedAce]

Omyggot I've been DooMing so much longer than you all lol1111 one one

Not really... I played DooM for the first time in 1996 or so. Then I tossed it in a dark corner and it got snowed under. I only re-discovered it 2 years ago, when I joined here and started mapping.

I don't really see what's the big deal about being an "old school" DooMer and people putting up a big attitude for being "well known" in the DooM community (which BTW rarely happens on these forums, but all the more frequently on that other forum)

[Chibbles]

I started when I was five... I found that it was hidden among the many files of one of the school computers... so I played it (both before and after school) for days on end... awesome. Then got my own comp and play it alot...

[Doom007]

Omyggot I've been DooMing so much longer than you all lol1111 one one

Not really... I played DooM for the first time in 1996 or so. Then I tossed it in a dark corner and it got snowed under. I only re-discovered it 2 years ago, when I joined here and started mapping.

I don't really see what's the big deal about being an "old school" DooMer and people putting up a big attitude for being "well known" in the DooM community (which BTW rarely happens on these forums, but all the more frequently on that other forum)

I totally understand and agree with what you are saying DoomedAce. I posted something about guru's or whatever a while ago, basically someone who comes outta the wood works and says or has this attitude that because they do a certain thing on the computer differently or knows of an easier way of doing something makes them better than everyone else, just cause the other guy doesn't know and they think they're too good to show them.

I think it just all comes down to big attitudes, and like with what you said, someone puts up a big attitude just cause they are "well known". I haven't seen it happen in a little while, but there's still chat's and forums out there where people are like that.

[Joel]

My first Doom was a grim one. I played it on my SNES. I never got far in it because it had no save feature and it was very hard due to the monsters being able to move very fast.

[Pieter Enis]

It's kinda coincidential.
My friend told me that Serious Sam Second Encounter, via online, was rather fun. So when I came home I started rummaging, but looked for the co-op games first. That's where I met my other friend, the German one (remember him?). He gave me the kickstart and I was off.
I'm playing it in the late, boring hours, that or NetHack :p

[Spite]

I started dooming i think in 98, just after colombine (agian i think) cause i was rooting around the bargin bin at Toys r Us and picked up the PSX version, much to the behest of my Father.
then i Picked up (Shifty glance) DOOM CE along with Doom 3, which reignited my love affair with Doom

[Doom007]

I started dooming i think in 98, just after colombine (agian i think) cause i was rooting around the bargin bin at Toys r Us and picked up the PSX version, much to the behest of my Father.
then i Picked up (Shifty glance) DOOM CE along with Doom 3, which reignited my love affair with Doom

PSX version of Doom? Cool. I remember when the original Wolfenstein came to the SNES AFTER it had already been released for PC, I knew people back then who said or acted like it was better for the SNES, but I don't remember the map layouts being the same. Plus the graphics and controls were twenty times better on the PC.

[Spite]

True, but Doom on PSX had esclusive maps and some very creepy music, so in my book its almost better then PC..... Almost.

[Nagelfar]

Sometime in 1995, when I was only 12 or 13 years old. It was over at my friends house in the basement. His father was in the movie special effects business, and their basement was filled with horror movie memorabilia and shelf after shelf of plain white unmarked VHS with gore, horror and sci-fi on them. Quite the atmosphere. His computer was right next to the grey brick foundation wall in the back of the basement near the water heater and piping. It was Doom 2. He kept telling me over and over about this game at school and that I had to come over and see it. It's the reason why I bought a PC instead of an Apple comp when I wanted to get my first computer around that time. It's possible the music from map 02 of Doom 2 is permanently burnt into my brain, as that was the first level I saw and the level my friend couldn't get passed (the old story of one of those who couldn't figure how to run and get to that ledge with the shotgun zombies and the red key) we actually did it a thousand times until we got onto that ledge without running or strafing; I'd never want to try and attempt it that way again though, it was extremely tedious and frustrating. heh, but it is to the millionth of a percent actually possible.

[Unconscious_Doomer]

I started playing it with my dad when I was 2 (1993), I then played it until I was 7... Got bored of it... Then I joined the craze when I was 10.

[The Undertaker]

2? You must of thought that imps were spikey teddy bears.

[Unconscious_Doomer]

I didn't know what to think. ;) I couldn't even play it, i just watched my dad playing it... 2 year olds and keyboards... Don't... Mix.

[doomjedi]

I started with Doom Shareware from a free "200 shareware games in 1" CD i've got with my computer (Ithink it was between 95 and 97...95 seems more logical). There I meet not only doom but heretic, hexen and other games. Instantly became addicted to Doom, explored every corner, played for years (I mean literally) the Shareware version till I got the full version. So noone knows shareware episodes better than me :) Also from that CD know a lot of oldest 3Dshooters and games.

[MasterOfPuppets]

True, but Doom on PSX had esclusive maps and some very creepy music, so in my book its almost better then PC..... Almost. http://doomdepot.doom2.net/wads/consoledoom.zip and http://doomdepot.doom2.net/wads/musicwads/CdoomMus.wad

[Doom007]

You must of thought that imps were spikey teddy bears.

Actually when I first started playing the game, I did think that. then i was like, they're demons?? ohhhh.....

[Spite]

http://doomdepot.doom2.net/wads/consoledoom.zip and http://doomdepot.doom2.net/wads/musicwads/CdoomMus.wad
Beautiful....

[BARRICADE]

I remember playing the original Doom on shareware when it first came out. But i REALLY got hooked when Doom 2 came out. Doom 2 rocks biatch!