Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 Hi all. I was wondering if it would be a good idea to gather news about Doom's 20th birthday in one spot? Personally, I would appreciate it because I don't frequent gaming news sites that often, but I would love to read articles celebrating the event (given that they even bother to write about it). So, if you think it's a good idea and have stumpled across an article that might be of interest to the rest of us, then please link here in this thread. List of articles submitted in this thread Doom is 20 Years Old Today - The Huffington Post UK Doom: 20 Years of a Gaming Legend - TechRadar Twenty Years of Ultra-Violence - MetaFilter Doom Was Launched 20 Years Ago - NetMassimo Q&A: Doom's Creator Looks Back on 20 Years of Demonic Mayhem - Wired Doom's Legacy: 20 Years of Brutal FPS Action - Stuff UK Celebrating 20 Years, Doom's Legacy is Its Human Connection - Polygon Happy 20th Birthday, Doom! id Software's Legendary Shooter Was Released Twenty Years Ago Today - Kotaku 20 Years of Doom: The Most Influential Shooter Ever - Paste Magazine Doom at 20: John Carmack's Hellspawn Changed Gaming Forever - The Verge The Meaning of Doom - The Economist Doom Turns 20, Original id Software Developer American McGee Talks Legacy, Kickstarter, and "Quake" on the Venerated Shooter's 20th Anniversary - Complex Gaming 20 Years Later: A Look Back at My Doom Love Affair - PC Magazine Doom 20th Anniversary Today — A True Classic - IncGamers Doom, the Original and Best First-Person Shooter, is 20 Years Old Today - ExtremeTech We Play Doom With John Romero - IGN Memories of Doom, by John Romero & John Carmack - Kotaku Happy 20th, Doom! - Bethesda Softworks Happy 20th Birthday Doom! Why Doom is the Seed of All Modern Games - GamesRadar Doom Retrospective: 20 Years of the Game That Didn't Just Change Gaming Forever — It Changed Gamers - Eurogamer Toast to the Monsters: 20 Years of Doom - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Classic Computer Game "Doom" Made in Mesquite, is 20 Years Old Today - The Dallas Morning News Ars Editors Remember Their First Taste of Doom, 20 Years Later: Looking Back on Two Decades of Fragging, from Computer Lab LANs to the TI-85 - Ars Technica Why Doom Still Holds Up After 20 Years - Time Tech Knee Deep in History: 20 Years of Doom - NBC News 20 Years Later, Doom Still Looms Large Over the Games Industry - PC & Tech Authority Doom Celebrates 20 Years of Gaming - Co-Optimus Happy 20th, Doom - UPROXX John Carmack Reminisces on 20 Years of Doom and What Happened With Doom 4 - Warp Zoned Happy Birthday to Doom, Happy Birthday to Doom: 20 Years Young! - Eurogamer Remembering Doom: 20 Years Later - PCGamesN Doom Reaches 20th Anniversary, Celebrations Across the Web - PlayStation Universe id Software's Doom Turns 20 Years Old - GameNGuide Creators of Doom Reflect on 20th Anniversary - The Vine A Look Back at Doom: Celebrating 20 Years of Gore and Mayhem - VR-Zone Groundbreaking First-Person Shooter "Doom" is 20 Today: IDDQD - Gameplanet Doom is 20 Years Old Today: Happy Birthday to the Granddaddy of All FPSes - play.tm Doom Turns 20 Today: Let's Remember the Good Times - games.on.net Doom Celebrates Its 20th Birthday! - TV3 Groundbreaking First-Person Shooter Game "Doom" Turns 20 - TeleManagement Classic Doom 20th Birthday - ESReality After 20 Years, Doom Co-Creator John Romero Looks Back on the Impact of a Seminal (and Satanic) Game - VentureBeat How Doom Inspired the First-Person-Shooter Game 20 Years Ago - Tom's Guide Doom 20th Birthday Video Perfectly Captures the '90s Slaughterfest - Mashable The Meaning of Doom - Malaysian Digest Doom Turns 20: We Take a Look at the Game's History - International Business Times Doom is 20 Years Old Already! Here, Have a Dancing Cyberdemon - GMA News Doom: Venti Anni di Incubi - FantasyMagazine Happy 20th Anniversary, Doom: This Was the Game That Cemented My Love for FPS Titles - Destructoid USgamer Celebrates 20 Years of Doom - USgamer Happy 20th Birthday, Doom! - Yahoo! Doom Turns 20 - Game Informer Doom Turns 20 Today: Watch How it Was Made - VirtualReality.ca Happy Birthday to Doom! - Gaming Nexus Ww Are Doomed — An Art Tribute to 20 Years of Doom - Game Art HQ Doom: Celebrating 20 Years of BFG - Structure Gaming Doom 20th Anniversary Livestream Replay: We Remember Doom in the Most Fitting Way Possible, By Blasting Demons to Hell and Back - GamereactorThanks to savagegrant for help with compiling the list. 1 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted December 10, 2013 Good idea. There is no news yet, but I assume (hope?) that they will pop-up once the day starts in the U.S. (it's 10 a.m. here in Poland as I'm writing this). I won't lie I expect the following sites to write something: idsoftware.com gamespot.com ign.com store.steampowered.com esreality.com pcgamer.com Doomworld.com (:D :D :D) A google doodle discussed in another thread wouldn't hurt either ;) If any of you stumble upon articles on these sites, please post links here as I might miss them. EDIT: Doom also has its official page on Facebook, but they haven't written anything yet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 Thanks for the input! And yeah, I agree on the time thing. I'm located in Denmark, so we're in the same timezone. I just thought that it couldn't hurt to be a bit early :) 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 Here's one posted less than 15 minutes ago... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10499993/20-years-of-Doom-the-game-that-put-a-gun-in-your-hand.html Doom turned 20 over 17 hours ago my local time. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted December 10, 2013 That was a surprisingly solid article. Lots of trivia I thought were known only to people really into the game, so either the editor (Sam Rowe) did his research or he is a long-time Doom fan. Definitely a good read and how I would like each site to give credit to the game. 0 Share this post Link to post
soner du Posted December 10, 2013 Source Ports news : - Chocolate Doom v2.0.0 is out today - Doom Retro v1.0, a new port, was also published today 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/10/doom-is-20-years-old_n_4417099.html 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 soner du said:Source Ports news : - Chocolate Doom v2.0.0 is out today - Doom Retro v1.0, a new port, was also published today Nice bit of news there! Not quite what I was thinking about, but thanks anyway :) Perhaps a mod will find this interesting news for the frontpage or something. 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/doom-20-years-of-influencing-gaming-1205980 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.metafilter.com/134597/Twenty-Years-of-Ultra-Violence 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted December 10, 2013 Another one: http://english.netmassimo.com/2013/12/10/doom-was-launched-20-years-ago/ 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMAD Posted December 10, 2013 savagegrant said:http://www.metafilter.com/134597/Twenty-Years-of-Ultra-Violence Linking to wikia instead of the proper wiki. :( Other than that, though, good article. 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/12/john-carmack-doom/ 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 You're on a roll, savagegrant! Much appreciated :) 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 No worries. :) http://www.stuff.tv/happy-birthday-doom/feature 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 savagegrant said:http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/12/john-carmack-doom/ This one is a bloody good read imho! Carmack is such a cool guy. 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted December 10, 2013 Yeah, the interview with Carmack is awesome! He actually appreciates the Call of Duty series for making the genre popular again. That's class! 0 Share this post Link to post
Chris Hansen Posted December 10, 2013 Hehe, yeah that one caught my eye too. Also: "I think at one point, I said it was fun offending the easily offended. Poking at the fundamentalists was at least a sub-current of picking the demons, and the pentagrams, and the goat’s heads and all the things in there." 0 Share this post Link to post
Avoozl Posted December 10, 2013 Too bad the CoD series is pure trash though, the only game in that series I even remotely enjoyed was Finest Hour on my GameCube. 0 Share this post Link to post
Shaviro Posted December 10, 2013 This one caught my eye: "Sometime, years from now, all of the gory details of everything from the last year and a half or so will come out, but now is not the time to be talking about all of it." 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.polygon.com/2013/12/10/5192960/celebrating-20-years-dooms-legacy-is-its-human-connection 0 Share this post Link to post
MFG38 Posted December 10, 2013 Finally this day has dawned upon us! Happy birthday, DOOM! 0 Share this post Link to post
Magnetick Posted December 10, 2013 http://kotaku.com/happy-20th-birthday-doom-id-softwares-legendary-shoot-1480257941 Kotaku did a thing. 0 Share this post Link to post
TheUltimateDoomer666 Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2013/12/20-years-of-doom.html 0 Share this post Link to post
DooM_RO Posted December 10, 2013 "That’s something I can’t really go into much in detail. It’s been hard—one of the things that was a little bit surprising that you might not think so from the outside, but deciding exactly what the essence of Doom is, with this 20-year history, is a heck of a lot harder than you might think. You get multiple Doom fans that have different views of what the core essence of it is, and there’s been a design challenge through all of it." The fact that they realize this is a very good thing. 0 Share this post Link to post
savagegrant Posted December 10, 2013 http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/10/5195508/doom-20th-anniversary-retrospective 0 Share this post Link to post
Walter confetti Posted December 10, 2013 From the facebbok page of the Italian youtuber Levelmonkey: https://www.facebook.com/levelmonkey?fref=ts First post leads to a link where you can play a flash version of doom. 0 Share this post Link to post
peach freak Posted December 10, 2013 The Poll of the Day on GameFAQs asks people if they've ever played Doom 20 years since its release. http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/5352 0 Share this post Link to post
Patrol1985 Posted December 10, 2013 PERHAPS a coincidence, but.... "Doom 3 BFG" disappeared from the Steam store. Do you think they're up to something? An update perhaps? Oh the wishful thinking... 0 Share this post Link to post
Clonehunter Posted December 10, 2013 Magnetick said:http://kotaku.com/happy-20th-birthday-doom-id-softwares-legendary-shoot-1480257941 Kotaku did a thing. Damn, I really dig that art. They'd all make great titlepics for one! Patrol1985 said:PERHAPS a coincidence, but.... "Doom 3 BFG" disappeared from the Steam store. Do you think they're up to something? An update perhaps? Oh the wishful thinking... Yah, i noticed this too. Maybe low sales, or maybe an update. Granted, Wolf2k9 has been missing for some time now too, though a defunct link to the trailer still exists. 0 Share this post Link to post