First WAD you have ever played?

[ForeverViLe]

Scythe, I have'nt played doom since I was 8 till 2010, I'm 17 now.

[DuckReconMajor]

Lego Doom

K!r4 said:

Heh darkreaver, first time I played AV was because of its awesome name too. I wonder how much it has helped its success.

People who like AV's name think Doom monsters are aliens.

[Foodles]

I couldn't tell you what the very first wad I played was, but one of the first, and certainly the most important was super sonic doom - this introduced me to the features of zdoom and sparked my interest, it was still years later that I started to map and found doomworld though.

[Marcaek]

One of the many random WADs on a D!Zone disk. The first I can name is afaik the Doom Resurrection demo, with a DEH patch that turned the plasma rifle into a railgun.

[Lila Feuer]

This one off Doomgate back when I was 9 or 10.

[Negatronica]

One of the first WADs I remember playing was maproom.wad.

[Relic]

doom2.wad

Still just as fun to play as when I first got it :)

[Moustachio]

Doom Barracks Zone on ZDaemon.

[Pirx]

Marcaek said:

One of the many random WADs on a D!Zone disk. The first I can name is afaik the Doom Resurrection demo, with a DEH patch that turned the plasma rifle into a railgun.

yep. some bad map on a level cd (i remember it had the player's POV with a plasma rifle firing, and a purple demon on its back). basically tall, plain brown stone rooms with a pillar somewhere. ö

first megawad / episode replacement: serenity / infinity. i didn't read the included text file first and somehow thought this is an official expansion from id, so i played it very carefully, trying to memorize every secret.

first doom2 megawad: i'm not sure here, possibly MM. i didn't have internet access yet and got my maps from commercial CDs, assuming that people would put only good maps in such collections :p

[RestlessRodent]

The first PWAD I have ever played would be KNEEDEEP.WAD, which is the sample level set for DEU 5.21. I played it back around 2000 or so. The rest is history.

[cannonball]

First pwad would have to be marswar, then followed by 2002ado. I picked up the doom cds back in 2005 simply because I fell in love with the game whilst playing with a friend a few years before. Only started serious speedrunning since last year.

[Luke Gevaerts]

I can't, for the life of me, remember the name of the first pwad I ever played. Some things about it I do remember:

- I played it back when I still used WadEd 1.83 on a 98 SE machine;
- One of the maps was a gigantic castle that resulted in saving issues on UV;
- One of the maps had a dining area called "Chez Baron", or something like that, where the tables were loaded with gibs;
- One of the maps had an area blocked by three green marble plates with text on 'em, and you had to find all three keys lower the plates and proceed;
- I think it was one of those pre-source-port wads that tried to tell a story using textures instead of scripting (which didn't exist back then);
- I think I got it from /idgames, or wherever it was housed at that point in time.

[Memfis]

Luke: http://www.doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=1244

[Maes]

That's fairly easy: Castle Of The Renegades 2.

@Memfis: heh, and I was wondering why it had "2" in the title. I only ever played the Doom II version, not the original.

And BTW, all that stuff was in the same map ;-)

[Luke Gevaerts]

@Memfis, Maes: Yeah, that's the one. =) I should take a look at it again some time; see if it's still as impressive as I remember it to be.

[Retog]

I think it did

[K3K]

[PROTOTYPE] said:
My first WAD was Nazi Auferstehung. Awesome, huh?

*gasps* May god have mercy on your soul...

[xxbio Warfare11]

Town of in fection: The flooding

[Phobus]

It'll be oneof the following:

Simpsons Doom (for the original Doom)
South Park Doom (Doom 2)
Penguin Doom (turns the Demons into Penguins - possibly the one from Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers)
Pacman Doom (turns the Demons into Pacman and replaced a lot of the sounds with random bleeps and boops)

If I had to guess, it's the penguin one. No idea where my Dad was getting all of those things from. He'd managed to patch the Doom IWAD to replace the standard Demon grunt alert sound with "I'll swallow your soul!" from Evil Dead 2 at some early point, which led me to believe that was an early, in-development sound that they'd cut out in later versions (and Doom 2) It took until 2005 for me to finally find out the truth on that one.

First actual level would be one of the following:

YAKWORLD.WAD
BUNKER.WAD
Doom in Tibet (TIBET.WAD)

All of this would have been around '94 or '95.

[Dr. Durr]

Half-Life TC

[Never_Again]

FOREST.WAD v3.2 off the CDROM that came with the book Tricks of the DOOM Gurus.

[Retog]

Alien Vendetta

[Xeriphas1994]

First of any kind was DOOM1.WAD. After I beat Ultimate Doom, I played 1-ON-1.WAD because it was listed first in the Maximum Doom folder, heh.

Thus my first PWAD-not-1994-dog-food was either E1L1RQ.WAD or DEMON.WAD (which I thought was a version of Cameron Newham's "Daemon", although Funduke says not).

[scifista42]

Perfect Doom

[Siggi]

The first non-IWAD doom WAD I ever played is The Lost Episodes of Doom.
Until finding that page now, I honestly had no idea it was a commercial addon for Doom. All I can say is that I've specifically kept it in my Doom collection as Jupiter.wad for the simple reason that it's the first addon I ever played.

In a way it feels like I've got a rare treasure. :P

Come to think of it... it being commercial does make sense as I do remember the book mentioned on the wiki page. I also have a vague memory of some disks with an old Doom map editor (DEU I think). The point in my life when I played this WAD and made my first levels are definitely the same. Nostalgia'd.

[j4rio]

iwad: plutonia in 1998
pwad: hr2 in 2009

[Obsidian]

Demon's Paradise, I think it was called.

[bimlanders]

First one I played was back in '94 with goodlord.wad (later named forest.wad). If you break it down, it's not a very good level set. The textures are haphazardly applied and ugly. But the gameplay flow of the first three levels is still a lot of fun, with loads of secrets and fast paced gameplay. I remember liking the admittedly cheap looking 'forest' sky back when I was fourteen. That just blew me away at the time, that there was more Doom to play.

[mouldy]

After playing original doom on and off for 18 years I only recently discovered you can play maps people had made themselves. This was shortly followed by the discovery of this site and 18 years-worth of custom wads to catch up on.

And to think I nearly lost interest after trying a bunch of crappy random maps before stumbling on the cacowards and trying out scythe 2...

[Never_Again]

bimlanders said:

First one I played was back in '94 with goodlord.wad (later named forest.wad).

GOODLORD.WAD (from almighty.zip) is a compilation where the first three levels are from an early version of FOREST.WAD.