How you discovered the Doom series? / Your first time playing Doom?

2 minutes ago, Capellan said:

20.

 

You're old as fuck, respect.

I've answered this one before, but redundantly for the sake of redundancy, I was 10, and started playing in 1995.  First game I touched was Doom II, came preinstalled on a secondhand PC.  The rest is history, I guess.

10 years old in 1997 I played my friends copy of Doom 64 on my brothers N64 system.

9 years old. 1994.

On a 486SX33 with 4MB of ram and a 210MB hard drive... didn't even have a soundcard so my early Doom days were punctuated by the PC speaker's beeps and bops (which incidently are just as terrifying as the actual digitized sound effects...)

25 minutes ago, th3_Dru1d said:

You're old as fuck, respect.

Nah, you're thinking of @Steve D :)

my dad introduced me to doom when I was 10 or 11 in I think 2006 or 2007 and later bought me a cd containing doom, doom 2 and final doom on it.

and i first got into doom mapping in 2009 when i was 13

I think I started playing when I was 4-5 years old on the snes. Currently, I'm 19.

I seriously started this year so basically I'm 16 now. But my First shitty wad was made when I was 14.

Edit: I have misunderstood the question. Well first time I played Doom was like 10 years ago (when I was 6-7) on a Nokia source port.

4 hours ago, Capellan said:

 

Nah, you're thinking of @Steve D :)

Yeah, you're a whippersnapper compared to me. ;)

September, 1995. The Ancient Doomer was . . . 

37 years old.

Someone hand me my walker!!!!! ;)

I don't know. But it was before kindergarten for sure, so less than 5. 

19 hours ago, seed said:

Six.

Same for me, sometime in early 1994. I remember having v1.1 shareware, then v1.666 shareware, then Doom II v1.7a a bit later.

Probably 6 too.

I think 4, but likely 5.

Young enough I physically do not remember. I was born the same year as Doom was released, and I remember it being a part of my life for as long as I have lived, but I absolutely cannot remember when I started playing. Maybe my parents remember...

1 minute ago, SaladBadger said:

I was born the same year as Doom was released,

This thread is really showing that there are a lot of people who are 'next gen' Doom players. That is an excellent thing!

I think I first played when I was about 6 years old. At first, I was watching my cousin play before I started playing.

I distinctly remember dodging shots by backpedalling and turning to the side because I didn't know how to strafe.

But then I had a loooong break and came back to doom in like 2013 or so.

Also, I played Duke Nukem 3D before Doom, since my uncle had it on his PC and I used to play the shareware episode everytime our family would visit.

8, on SNES.

10 hours ago, Steve D said:

September, 1995. The Ancient Doomer was . . . 

37 years old.

being in your 60s isn't that old!

I wonder if there are like 80 year old doomers out there who still love to rip apart demon carcasses. I could see my grandmother do that, actually. XD

1 minute ago, LiT_gam3r said:

I could see my grandmother do that, actually

Haha - my mother in law can barely send a text! That's a weird mental image - my mother in law fragging a cyberdemon with a BFG...

22 hours ago, smeghammer said:

 

Just looked at my old CDs - the only rated one is Final Doom (15, UK). Doom TFC and Doom2 are not flagged with a rating, though some of my old magazine CD WAD collections are also rated 15.

Well, the ESRB was only founded in September 1994, only months before Doom 2 came out.  It's been rated post-release so that it can continue to be sold in retailers that require a rating, but technically the process is and always has been completely optional by law.

I was born in '91, and played probably around age 5 or so on a Win95 computer of some sort... my parents are both engineers (software and electrical) so we usually had decent home computers, but I couldn't tell you any specs.  One of my earliest gaming memories is watching my dad fall into the poison pit at the end of Tricks and Traps and accidentally save over his file instead of reload, which erased all of his progress.  Good stuff.

I was around... uhm...3 or 4 short after the release of Doom1.

I was used to games like Commander Keen and Lemmings, but Doom with its cinematic graphics (for that time ofc) scared the shit out of me. So i not really played it, only camping at the spawn in E1M1 and shooting senseless the guns.

Some time later i start real playing, with cheats ofc and without sound.

Same goes later with Doom 2. My cousin had a savegame in it at the end of map12. When i got the game, i loaded the save and finished the map.

When map13 was loaded and i saw for the first time the revenant i was so scared that i just ended the game and hadn't touched it for a while.

I think with 10 or maybe 12 i finished for the first time Doom 1.

I had 4 years old when i first played the shareware in 1993, next year Dad upgrade the PC and the guy who come to make the upgrade (changing the motherboard, adding a larger Hard Disck, installing a new version of Windows, etc.) looked how i loved to play the shareware over and over so he installed Doom 1 v1.2 in my PC as a gift. Then i purchase a magazine that come with a neat book with a walkthorught for all the maps of Doom 1 & 2 and i upgrade my version of Doom 1 to v1.666.
I played that version of Doom 1 for a long time, and i always dreamed about purchasing those amazing boxes of Doom 2 and Final Doom i saw on Wal-Mart, but they were really expensive, and the last upgrade we made to the PC (with windows 95!!!) around 1996 just made it a pentium 1, so it can't run much newer games.
Last upgrade i made myself to that old PC made it a pentium 1.33 with just 8gb of HD and 128 mb of RAM.

Then that poor PC broke, but i could salvage some of the programs on the HD, Doom 1 being one of those. Descent was also there, but was the shareware... and playing that with just keyboard was... UFFFF!!!! Difficult, i might say.

Then using the resources i had from that old PC, around 2001 i made it a pentium 1.66 with 256 mb of RAM, i was in highschool and i met a guy who had an amazing PC that could run Half-Life really fast, and he get surprised of how good i was playing Half-Life when it was my first time. I tell him that i played Doom a lot, and he give me Doom 2 in like 14 floppy disks he didn't played it anymore. I ran to my house and installed it. I didn't sleep at all that weekend.
Next year i bought a second hand old PC that had the motherboard burned, but the HD intact, so i connected it an i found that i had Final Doom and Ultimate Doom, but i was on a craze of RPG, and i recently purchased a Playstation, so apart from save them to my PC, i didn't play them much. i ended them, yes, but I IDDQDIDKFA them.

Around 2005, now a 16 years little fella, i bought a new PC, pentium 4, with Windows XP i think, i don't remember right now, and for the first time, i had connection to Internet in my own house, so aside from jerking off with porn almost all the time, i tracked my copies of Ultimate Doom, Doom 2 and Final Doom, i replayed them, and i loved them again. All that on Legacy.
Around 2008 i downloaded ZDoom 2.2, i think, and i started playing pwads for the first time, and i spent all my free time playing.

Now, 2020 and in the middle of a pandemic apocalypse, i play my Doom on DoomRetro ;)

 

15.

I played Knee Deep in the Dead (shareware v. 1.2) on our 486 back in 1994.

11

13 years old, on some basic Windows XP. And the port was Doom95. The year was 2012. Haha.

It was the SNES release, I got it the day it released in 1995, so, I was 12.  We got a Windows 95 PC with Ultimate Doom a couple of years later.  But I never played Doom II until it came out with the Doom 3 Collectors Edition on the original Xbox.

I was 6 or maybe 7 and played DOOM 3 at my uncle's place, btw DOOM 3 is my second favourite DOOM game

Seeing all the people in this microcosm alone who were born in the early 90’s/Late 80’s and first played as a youngster makes me feel like part of some large unspoken family. In fact, there were most certainly an army of Doom kids all around the globe.. What an influential game.

6 hours ago, LiT_gam3r said:

I wonder if there are like 80 year old doomers out there who still love to rip apart demon carcasses. I could see my grandmother do that, actually. XD

Sadly Ty didn’t get to make it there, and the word on the street is that Fodders and GreyGhost are no longer with us either (really hope that’s not the case) but if those guys had made 80, this would definitely have been them! Such legends!

8 minutes ago, Doomkid said:

Seeing all the people in this microcosm alone who were born in the early 90’s/Late 80’s and first played as a youngster makes me feel like part of some large unspoken family. In fact, there were most certainly an army of Doom kids all around the globe.. What an influential game.

I was born in 83.  My dad even got into Doom on the Playstation 1 (he is 60 now).  I showed him Doom Eternal a couple of weeks ago and he thought it was badass but sadly can't play games anymore due to poor eyesight.

6 hours ago, Mitchfork said:

Well, the ESRB was only founded in September 1994, only months before Doom 2 came out.  It's been rated post-release so that it can continue to be sold in retailers that require a rating, but technically the process is and always has been completely optional by law.

 

I was born in '91, and played probably around age 5 or so on a Win95 computer of some sort... my parents are both engineers (software and electrical) so we usually had decent home computers, but I couldn't tell you any specs.  One of my earliest gaming memories is watching my dad fall into the poison pit at the end of Tricks and Traps and accidentally save over his file instead of reload, which erased all of his progress.  Good stuff.

In the US, Doom II was rated using an entirely different system called RSAC that had 1-5 ratings across different categories of content. I think one of the reasons it died out was because the use of numbers and more numbers = more edge, led to RSAC ratings meant to be punitive being used as a marketing gimmick. Rise of the Triad bragged about getting the 5 violence rating for "wanton and gratuitous violence" (Doom got a 4 for boring old "blood and gore") in promotions.