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30 years ago, Doom was released
- kristianp 3y agoThe original 60mhz Pentium is also 30 years old, released on March 22, 1993.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoDon't think anybody was playing doom on a Pentium early on....alot of 486s
- marginalia_nu 3y agoYeah, Pentium was for Quake.
- firesteelrain 3y agoAgree
- empressplay 3y agoGod, I feel old.
- mvanbaak 3y agoThis is exactly what i felt when i saw the date and remembered doom turned 30
- aussieguy1234 3y agoThey've missed a few platforms https://gamerant.com/doom-commercial-kitchen-hardware-running/ https://gamerant.com/doom-commercial-kitchen-hardware-runnin...
- marginalia_nu 3y agoDoom is a great example of the absolutely disgusting rate hardware advanced at in the 90s. Feels like we got much farther in the ten years between Doom 1 (1993) and Doom 3 (2003), than in the twenty between Doom 3 and 2023.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoWhile Warhammer 40k darktide looks pretty similar in graphics to Doom(2016) I am pretty impressed by how seamless the multiplayer experience is. You got all those mobs running towards your 4 player party and it all works seamlessly. Multiplayer experience evolved a lot from where it was 10 years ago.
- Kuraj 3y agoThere's a WH40k DOOM-like game that came out recently BTW. It's called BOLTGUN. I haven't played it yet but it looks super fun [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005010/Warhammer_40000_Boltgun/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2005010/Warhammer_40000_B...
- ngcazz 3y agoFeels alright to play. Just very repetitive
- nine_k 3y agoFaster connections, shorter pings.
- mike_hock 3y ago> twenty between Doom 3 and 2023 > twenty > Doom 3 WTF. Doom 3 is twenty years old?!
- lightedman 3y ago2004. Very close to it, now! I remember playing it (poorly) on a GeForce MX440.
- BLKNSLVR 3y agoI had the exact same reaction. There's a sheen of new-ness attached to Doom 3 in my mind that I don't think can be removed now. That first taste of Doom 2 multiplayer is what set me on my life's course. - a reformed, once-degenerate, FPS gamer.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoDoom used to be more popular than all of Microsoft.
- ray_v 3y agoWhat do you mean by, "used to be"? ; - )
- rplnt 3y agoIf you are even slightly interested in its history, I recommend the book Masters of Doom. Easy read, full of little anecdotes.
- mylons 3y agothe audiobook is fantastic and narrated by Wil Wheaton!
- vmilner 3y agoThis reminded me that the Ready Player One audiobook is wonderfully narrated by Wil Wheaton and has Wil Wheaton mentioned in passing as a character about halfway through…
- e6quisitory 3y agoI really wish the reading by Wheaton wasn't so childishly animated. Had to stop listening. Same thing happened with Project Hail Mary & Ben Franklin bio by Isaacson audiobooks.
- seattle_spring 3y agoI remember the pearl-clutching satanic panic-esque concern trolling a lot of politicians and advocacy groups extolled when Doom was at its peak popularity. 30 years later and evidence to the contrary, the same types of people are doing the same thing with modern games like GTA6. It's kind of wild to watch.
- danbolt 3y agoI think the cherry on top is that if a teenager’s interested in the 1993 release of DOOM today, we’d probably be encourage them to be curious from an art history angle.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoBesides the legendary Masters of Doom book, Romero released his autobiography this year: The birth of id software – Excerpt from John Romero's autobiography https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808939 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808939
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoRelated, Carmack and Romero reunited to talk DOOM for it's 30-year https://www.pcgamer.com/for-dooms-30th-anniversary-the-johns-romero-and-carmack-reunited-to-celebrate-the-fps-that-changed-everything-i-want-to-thank-everybody-in-the-doom-community-for-keeping-this-game-alive/ https://www.pcgamer.com/for-dooms-30th-anniversary-the-johns... YouTube archive: https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs
- bigjimmyk3 3y agoI remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals. Things did not end well.
- firesteelrain 3y agoOn bbs?
- tcmb 3y agoOn the FTP server of the University of Wisconsin. Romero tells this story where people are hanging around in the upload directory, waiting for the Doom shareware release to drop, creating text files expressing their impatience.
- firesteelrain 3y agoAh hmm, I don’t recall the Internet being generally available until 1994/1995 (that’s when we got dialup services in my area). It must have been a bunch of university students
- AndreyKarpov 3y ago30 years of DOOM: new code, new bugs - https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1087/ https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1087/
- llamaInSouth 3y agoWolfenstein 3D was released on May 5, 1992 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D
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