I dunno, when I fired up wolf3d for the first time my jaw dropped. I never saw anything like it before. I think a lot of people got exposed to wolf3d after it

I dunno, when I fired up wolf3d for the first time my jaw dropped. I never saw anything like it before. I think a lot of people got exposed to wolf3d after it had been out a while, but with Doom they got to experience the hype leading up to the release. I played wolf3d the week it was released to shareware and it was groundbreaking in every way imaginable back then. Doom took it to a whole new level graphically, but the gameplay was no different. I do agree that Carmack's attitude in general was awesome, he never seems to get intimidated by competition.