first time you met the cacodemon......

[Mr. Woot]

i was actually impressed and scared, on e2m1 on uv skill when i went around the corner and heard the loud hiss and turned and saw the monstrosity of the red freak, I said, omg he is so hard how will i ever beat it? that was a classic moment........


Edit: i also forgot, i only had 12 shots left in my pistol.... and i was only 8 years old...

[Ichor]

I first saw it while playing on the SNES version. I just treated it as any other monster. Although, I was a bit nervous when that wall came down to reveal the second Cacodemon (I hadn't found the plasma gun secret yet). I had only a few shells left and little space to maneuver, so it was quite tough at the time.

[Weakmind]

The first time i met the Cacodemon, i was openign a door frmo a long hall way. I was almost scared by the hiss that it gave out. Then i got smart, and wiped out my chaingun, and pumpeded it full of led. It was pretty neet to kill it, becuase it was pretty strong for a newbi on Nightmare mode

[Graf Zahl]

Mr. Woot said:

i was actually impressed and scared, on e2m1 on uv skill when i went around the corner and heard the loud hiss and turned and saw the monstrosity of the red freak, I said, omg he is so hard how will i ever beat it? that was a classic moment........

The first time I saw him was in E2M3. I took my chaingun and blasted him to pulp. :-D (No, he wasn't a particularly good challenge!)

[dsm]

The first time I saw a cacodemon was the same day my older brother introduced me to Doom.

After playing through some of the maps in E1, I tried out some savegames left by my bro.
One of them brought me to a really strange place (somewhere in either E2 or E3 - probably E3, 'cause I had the BFG).
I played a bit in that map and came across two red, floating, one-eyed heads.
I was like "shit! these are bosses - look how tough they are!" so I pulled out the BFG and waxed 'em with it.
But lo and behold! MORE of those "bosses" showed up when I explored more of the map!

Afterwards, my brother loaded up E2M8 for me to "play" (read: die) in >:-P

[dr_st]

The Cacodemon is, like, on DOOM's title screen. You can't most definitely be surprised by it. For real.

[Erik]

It was in e2m1. I had learned to strafe quite well already as I had finished e1 on UV. It wasn't a big threat, but I was amazed how many shells it took to kill it.

[Grimm]

Heh heh, Cacodemons used to sacre the shit outta me. Then I figured out how to strafe.

[Stealthy Ivan]

It looked like a floating meatball with an eye, and it was mad, so I ran from it...!
Nuff said.

[dsm]

dr_st said:

The Cacodemon is, like, on DOOM's title screen. You can't most definitely be surprised by it. For real.

True, but I only saw the title screen once (and the title screen dissapears again real quick-a-like) before I went into constantly playing mode over at my bro's - and I soon forgot everything (but the marine in the foreground) about the title screen.

So when I saw them for the first time ingame, it didn't dawn on me that I might have seen 'em before - not until a bit later when the game crashed and my brother had to restart Doom so I saw the title screen for the second time.

[Coopersville]

The first time I saw the Cacodemon was on the SNES version, E3M1, on Nightmare. I opened that first door and two of them flew out. I wasn't scared, but delighted, because I found a new monster out of the manual. I probably died the first time, but it didn't take long to learn I could shoot them from behind a tree and not get hit myself.

[Mr. Woot]

dr_st said:
The Cacodemon is, like, on DOOM's title screen. You can't most definitely be surprised by it.

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you can if you have 20 health, your ammo for pistol is in single digits and youre in close quarters....

[dsm]

first time you met the cacodemon......

G'day Mr. Cacodemon, I'm Mr. Doomguy - pleased to meet you.
*Cacodemon burbs in response

[Dagazur]

First time I saw the caco was on some map on E2, it was on the Sega Megadrive 32X version of doom, I walked around a corner saw 2 of them, heard the hiss, and instantly I ran up to my console and switched it off, I was shaking for hours and had nightmares for a few weeks :S (the 32X addon and the game were hired out so I took back the next day :P)

[Fredrik]

I played Doom 2 before I played Doom episodes 2-3. And since I used IDCLEV to check out the different levels, I really have no idea where I saw a Cacodemon first.

[DooMer 4ever]

I too played Doom2 before the other episodes than first in Ultimate Doom, but I remember seeing the caco in the Doom shareware version, at the ad after you quit the game. I always wondered what kind of monster that would be, but strangely I don't remember the first time I killed a caco.

[Disorder]

first time you met the cacodemon......

I laughed.

[Lutrov71]

I treated it like any other monster when I first saw it. I think I saw it first on DOOM2, which made it a bit easier because I had a Super Shotgun.

[fraggle]

dsm said:

"shit! these are bosses - look how tough they are!"

When I played Doom for the first time, I thought the Imp at the end of E1M1 was a boss.

[dsm]

fraggle said:

When I played Doom for the first time, I thought the Imp at the end of E1M1 was a boss.

O_o

I only know that my reaction was due to the fact that I was a jaded Wolfenstein 3d gamer - so everything that took above fifty bullets to kill had to be a boss :-)

[Nanami]

fraggle said:

When I played Doom for the first time, I thought the Imp at the end of E1M1 was a boss.

Dude, that imp beats me every time.

Any tips on how to get past him?

[Ichor]

Lure him out near those barrels. When he gets close enough to one, punch the barrel a couple of times, and it will explode. Hopefully, that should kill him.

[Lutrov71]

Or you could just run pass him... ;)

[Fredrik]

fraggle said:

When I played Doom for the first time, I thought the Imp at the end of E1M1 was a boss.

I thought it was cool how (assuming ITYTD) you were first introduced to the Imp on the ledge in the zig-zag room such that you could kill it from a safe distance, only to find that behind the next door one was coming right at you for close combat.

[Darkman 4]

The Cacodemons shouldn't be too mcuh of a surprise, given that you see it on the title screen, but oh well.

[sargebaldy]

The first time I saw the caco was in the help screen for Doom shareware. I didn't fight one until 4 years later when I registered, and by that point I wasn't too surprised by it.

[DOOM Anomaly]

First time I saw a Cacodemon was on Doom Shareware's Title screen right then and there I thought the Cacodemon was the boss of Doom, it looked like it to me; hidden in the top of the screen and looked so evil and strong. When I saw it on the order screen I thought it still, that it was the boss of doom. Then I fought one in Doom II, and laughed at myself. :P

[Nanami]

That's exactly how Doom SHOULD have ended. MAP30 of Doom II... you teleport into a large room, faced with the largest floating ball of gass you've ever seen...

[Twiztid]

I also played Doom2 before (ultimate)Doom1. When i first met the caco i treated it like every other monster. A little ssg shot there and a rocket there.

[MaximusNukeage]

cacodemons look harder than they are. they're just flying Uber-imps