Exactly. Doom was popular because it was a more immersive experience of hell than anything that came before (remember, this was two years before Win95 Ba-Dum Ts

Exactly. Doom was popular because it was a more immersive experience of hell than anything that came before (remember, this was two years before Win95 Ba-Dum Tshh). The content was far less important than the novel and superior medium.