Playstation Doom 25th Anniversary.

[DustFalcon85]

Tomorrow, November 16 marks 25 years since the release of Doom for the Playstation 1. Has anyone got any plans to celebrate the 25 years of PS1 Doom? For me, I'm just gonna to listen to the music soundtrack regular and remastered. Don't have any plans on playing the port at the moment since my PS1 has been stored away along with it's games.

 

Midway did a kick-ass job with that port with it's introduction of colored lighting and the new and creepy music and sound effects by Aubrey Hodges. It wasn't the first time I heard Aubrey's music on there. It was Doom 64 that introduced me to it. Anyone got any favorite music tracks? Mine's Hell's Churn, Mind Massacre and Breath of Horror.

 

To @Aubrey Hodges, @Hyde and to all of the Doom Community... Happy 25th Anniversary to Playstation Doom! Cheers and toast! :-)

Edited November 17, 2020 by DustFalcon85

[Immorpher]

Lamentation is an absolute classic! https://aubreyhodges.bandcamp.com/track/lamentation-level-mt-erebus

[taufan99]

Well, it's already November 16 here.

Happy birthday, DOOM: Custom Playstation Edition!

[leodoom85]

PSX Doom and PSX Final Doom (released in 1996) has a soft place in my brain. Despite of the maps' simplicity, the atmosphere and, especially the music, is what sold me and, of course, it gave the base for what Doom 64 became.

 

Happy bday PSX Doom.

[Dark Pulse]

First Doom I owned was the SNES version. But the second one was the PSX one, and boy did I play the hell out of it.

 

Happy to have been able to contribute to the GEC Master Edition project, too. (And still got at least one more map up my sleeve, once Erick gets back to work on it...)

[Roebloz]

Oh yes I got something to celebrate it with. Stay tuned in the Console Doom section, ya?

[Devils950003]

PSX Doom will always have a special place in my heart.  Having only played the Jag version to that point, it completely blew me away.  Loved the revamped sounds and especially that soundtrack.  And I think some of the levels being shortened was actually a good thing.  I might give it a try for the hell of it sometime...I still own a copy and a PSOne with a screen.  

 

Can’t go back to it now (the Switch version is just too good), but I must have Hodges’ extended mix tracks playing whenever I’m enjoying some handheld Doom action.  That soundtrack holds up beautifully, 25 years later.  

[Vic Vos]

It was the first Doom installment I played, so a degree of nostalgia is tied to it.
Real nice to see PsyDoom emerge and GEC Master Edition being so close to completion.

[Devalaous]

Playstation Doom is what got me into the game, and I spent MANY weeks pl aying the two games, rising through the skill levels till I comfortably could play on UV, finding all the secrets and items. The soundtrack is so familiar to me know that its more calming than horrifying, and the alternate monster sounds sound more natural than the PC ones, even after decades of PC Dooming.

Edited November 17, 2020 by Devalaous

[Boaby Kenobi]

My first experience of Doom was on PlayStation and then on Nintendo 64 a year or so later. Didn't get my first computer until the end of 1999.

I found it a little hard to get into the original game on PC at first as it seemed more "arcadey" compared to the slower, almost survival horror atmosphere of the PSX & N64 games.

[AmethystViper]

I remember seeing (formally) Happy Video Game Nerd's review on the PlayStation version of Doom and it was what got me into that version, and as someone who admittingly got into Doom by Doom 3 on the Xbox, the PlayStation version to me was the right marriage of Doom's classic gameplay with a horror atmosphere on top of being a solid version of Doom. The music by Aubrey Hodges really drew me into the hellish landscape and great use of colored lighting. Happy 25th Anniversary, PlayStation Doom!