If DOOM released in 1994 or 1995, would we still remember it in the same way? I think so, because the thing about DOOM is, it was an insanely good game. Yes,

If DOOM released in 1994 or 1995, would we still remember it in the same way? I think so, because the thing about DOOM is, it was an insanely good game. Yes, it pioneered fullscreen real-time perspective rendering on commodity hardware, instantly realigning the direction of much of the game industry, yadda yadda yadda, but at the end of the day it was a good-enough game for people to remember and respect even without considering the tech. Minecraft would be a similar example. Minecraft looked like total ass, and games with similar rendering technology could have been (and were) made years earlier, but Minecraft was also good. And that was enough.