What were your feelings when it came out?

[Jeremy]

Well, back in 92', when word first spread, I remember playing Wolfenstein, and just sitting and waiting for it to come out. Back then, I had no comp. Only a SNES. {They had Wolf for the snes}, and when it came out, I was very excited! I ran to my mom, and demanded money, and had her drive me to the nearest store. When I got there, all the Doom's were gone, except ONE snes Doom..I bought it of course. I popped it in, not looking at the box or the manuel, expecting to either see somthing like Wolfenstein, or side-scrolling..But to my surprise, it was the best gfx I ever saw! The floor had elevation, there was a sky, the music was just awsome, there were levels galore, it had a kick ass theme! I spent all night playing it. From the moon base to hell! After I got to the third episode, I called over all my friends, and they were bugged out too, they loved it! And well, ever since, iv'e been playing Doom. And I even play the snes one every once in a while. So, you? ...

[Guest Gôvernôr Barôn]

i rented doom snes when it came out, thought it was ok.. but then i bought Doom for the PC... and thats what started it all.... it was a funny thing but when i first played it (i was like 10 or 11 hehe) i actually got scared at the baron of hell!

[stphrz]

I was 25 when I first played Doom. (I'm 27 now). *I* was scared of the Barons too :)

[Enjay]

Gôvernôr Barôn said:

i rented doom snes when it came out, thought it was ok.. but then i bought Doom for the PC... and thats what started it all.... it was a funny thing but when i first played it (i was like 10 or 11 hehe) i actually got scared at the baron of hell!

A friend and I had been waiting for the PC version. He got it first (ver 0.99), don't know where, but he called me up and I went round to his house straight away. I was totally blown away. I remember being obsessed by the hypnotic swaying motion. Trying to figure out how to kill the Barons. Laughing like a drain when I first found a chainsaw. I sent my registration before I left my friends house and took a shareware copy home. It didn't run on my 386 (something to do with the AMD chipset I believe). You can bet that by the time my full copy arrived I had a new 486 waiting for it. :-)

I was lucky, I worked in a place that had a network capable of 4 player DM and COOPs. Some friends and I used to come in at the weekends and just muti-play for hours.

Shortly afterwards, not sure how long, I found a copy of DEU on compuserve and started editing.

Where has my life gone?

[Jeremy]

Gôvernôr Barôn said:

i rented doom snes when it came out, thought it was ok.. but then i bought Doom for the PC... and thats what started it all.... it was a funny thing but when i first played it (i was like 10 or 11 hehe) i actually got scared at the baron of hell!

I was only 7 when I played Doom back in 93' :)

[Vorpal]

Stphrz said:

I was 25 when I first played Doom. (I'm 27 now). *I* was scared of the Barons too :)

Barons didn't scare me. The scariest part for me was in e1m5, the dark hallway right before the bluekey with the imps... the first time I played it I was tapping the forward key ever so slowly, trying to make out what was ahead ;)

[Guest JudgeDooM]

The same for me. I discovered Doom for the first time on SNES. I bought first WWF Wrestlemania, and as I didn't like it, a friend advised me to change it for Doom. So I did. The first time, I didn't like it, but then I played it, and played it, and played it, and played it, and so on...I just LUVED that game. My bro' got contamined too. When I came back from school, I always found him before the screen playin' Doom. He managed to get a copy of the replay edition from GT Interactive of Ultimate Doom and Doom II on PC. And it was a total pleasure to play it, because it was more fluid and all. Then I was kinda disgusted by the SNES version, but still, it's my base version, the first time I discovered my all-time favorite game!

[Guest JudgeDooM]

Gôvernôr Barôn said:

i rented doom snes when it came out, thought it was ok.. but then i bought Doom for the PC... and thats what started it all.... it was a funny thing but when i first played it (i was like 10 or 11 hehe) i actually got scared at the baron of hell!

Yeah, it was the first scary demon. Then came the Cyberdemon.

[Guest Gôvernôr Barôn]

e1m8 was kinda scary when i first played it, anyone wanna take a stab at why it was..? :)


oh and another thing, when i played the shareware version of it (only the first episode) and in e1m8 when you warp into that room and then die and then the message pops up.. i thought there was a special code so that you can go on the next episode without dying, hehe... (gullable)

[SaGa]

Vorpal said:

Barons didn't scare me. The scariest part for me was in e1m5, the dark hallway right before the bluekey with the imps... the first time I played it I was tapping the forward key ever so slowly, trying to make out what was ahead ;)

i get scared of the cacodemons and skulls man if a cacodemon silently flies up on your back and you turn around and unexpectingly you see this big cacodemon right behind you attaking you same with the skulls. by the way i got my sharware vertion like in 95 and 97 i got a registard vertion of doom 2 i am 15 now

[Guest MadDog]

Well I first played Doom I in '94, just before Doom II came out. I think my uncle sent me the shareware version... I was 11 then. It wasn't too scary for me ;)

BTW - we need emoticons!!!

[GavinJCD]

Wait...snes Doom didn't have good graphics...it was really really bad...not smooth...no floor textures....it was horrible, it even had 2 FX chips in it and it was still slow. They just made it cuz they knew it would make money.