Doom has been with me for a very long time, mostly during hard moments in my life. It being an escape from parental abuse, loss of friends due to lifestyle changes, as well as my opioid addiction before finally transitioning.
It's a game that's very close to my heart for those reasons listed above, but one memory that brings a smile to my face, is when I first discovered Doom. I was 16 and doing some ye olde internet stuff *cough* pirating stuff *cough* looking for games to play. I eventually discovered a torrent of something called DOOM.EXE, I foolishly downloaded it, desperately hoping for something new--not realizing that I possibly gave my computer a virtual STD--but alas, it finally downloaded, and I immersed myself into a virtual world like none other, or at least that's what I thought back then, now days I understand that Doom was just an entryway to a world of old, yet gold first-person-shooters.
Of course, my memory may not be completely accurate, but I still hold it within my heart.