What system did you have your 1st Doom expierence?

[ShaneAmp]

i woulda been between 10-12, first time i ever heard of or played it was on a demo SNES in a place called Master Player, which always had like 10 different machines going at once. The level was paused on e2m3, the first level i ever played.

[chilvence]

RetroGamer said:

I He was playing with a friend and he wouldn't let me near.

Selfish bastard. I hope you returned the favour to him.

[Rancid]

Damn man, i cant even remember this. I had to be 5 or six back in 1996, played it on a friends pc. maybe a compaq or a dell. Was the full version but i think i dies like on map 3 or sumthing like that. I remember thinking the green ooze looked awefully fun to jump into

[SunlapseVertigo]

yeah my Pentium 75 was top of the goddamn line when it came out, i was so cool. and it was friggin' expensive, but i didn't care because i was 9 and my parents bought it.

[Naitguolf]

SNES

[ellmo]

The best CPU ever - 486 dx2, with SoundBlaster PRO, SVGA... Windows? gimme a break.

[Cubase]

I remember I played the shareware of Doom on an old...

IBM Aptiva 486DX2-50
500 Mb HD
8 MB Ram (soon upgraded to 20 mb!)
Windows 3.1

It was funny, we bought it with 8mb of RAM and then our uncle who worked for IBM bought us a bunch of RAM for x-mas, but we could only fit 20mb in... man I tell ya what though, with that 20mb, I was a god! lol!

-Cub. =o)

[SulfurOccult]

Playstation w00t

[Mogul]

One of my first deathmatches was on PSX. None of the other consoles (minus the jag) had link cable deathmatch. PSX did. Very much fun.

[Caco-Puff]

Sega 32x

[Mogul]

Man -- the Sega 32X version. Now that was pretty horrible. As I recall, it had a scaled down screen, because it couldn't handle full screen. There were no rotational sprites for the characters. It only had something like 12-15 maps. No episodes. No cyberdemon/mastermind. And of course, those TRADEMARK awful Sega sound effects.

In retrospect, I'm surprised they even put the BFG in there.

[Caco-Puff]

Listen to some of the Sega 32x versions music,It has like 2 notes.

Heres a link to Hiding The Secrets from DooM Depot.

http://doomdepot.doom2.net/music/32x%20doom/map09%20-%20hiding%20the%20secrets.mp3

[Mogul]

Yeah, I saw that. Man, Sega failed it. In fact, they ALWAYS failed it. :(

[fodders]

386 sx 33mhz 4 meg mem and a 40 meg hard drive that the sales guy said "If you use doublespace, you will never need a bigger drive!" :P

[TonicBH]

I believe I was about 11 or 12 when I played a warezed Doom (I think... my memory's very hazy...)

and to this day I hunt down versions of Doom I don't have.

[DMFDxUconn]

mje said:

Man -- the Sega 32X version. Now that was pretty horrible. As I recall, it had a scaled down screen, because it couldn't handle full screen. There were no rotational sprites for the characters. It only had something like 12-15 maps. No episodes. No cyberdemon/mastermind. And of course, those TRADEMARK awful Sega sound effects.

In retrospect, I'm surprised they even put the BFG in there.

Horrible or not, its where we started. And sorry to burst your bubble, but it did include cyberdemon. And on the right system, the sound was awesome for its time. Its not like we had all these first person shooters to choose from, with kick ass soundtracks, like we do now.. which by the way, DooM paved the way for. Being 1994, i'll take it.

and if i remember correctly, sega 32x version had something like 54 levels.

[Mogul]

DMFDxUconn said:

And sorry to burst your bubble, but it did include cyberdemon.

Wrong. It didn't. And it didn't have 54 levels either.

[DMFDxUconn]

LMAO.. OMG. That is not the music i had when i was playing. That sounds like a cheesey midi. The sound on the DooM i played was in stereo and sounded like real music, not that synthasizer crap.

Sega Genesis 32x, 1994. You sure you got your sorce right?

[Mogul]

Yes, that is the music. It is worse than you may recall. Sega's sound, right up to the Saturn, was always horrible. PC was much, much better.

By the way, here is a source for the 32X version. 15 regular maps, 2 secret ones. No cyb, no mastermind, just like I said.

http://classicdoom.com/doomcomp.htm#9

Enjoy.

[DMFDxUconn]

Your gonna make me buy one off Ebay and proove it, arent you? lol.. i wish there was another way.

I know there was a Cyberdemon. I remember it being my favorite character, and still is. I had not played doom anywhere else other than sega 32x and never even knew other versions existed on the PC. It was all i knew about DooM, and Cyberdemon was my fav.

And if it wasnt 54, it was 50.

Wherever you are getting your info from, i'd double check its validity.

[Mogul]

Read my above post.

EDIT: I've decided to grant you a little bit of mercy and let you know that the PSX version did have the cyb, and something like 54 maps (I don't recall the exact number). Perhaps you played it and are getting it confused somehow?

[Caco-Puff]

Yes,it sounds like your talking about the PS version,Possibly the 3DO version.Anyways MJE has been at this forum for like 3 years now,I'm pretty sure he knows what he is talking about.

[DMFDxUconn]

I appologize mje, your right, it was the PSX version, i had forgotten all about that era.

[Mogul]

Now the PSX version is something I like a lot. The scary music and new lighting effects were great. Ahhh that was nice. :D

[cyber-menace]

I was about 6 and had an old 386 computer with a grand total of 16MB of RAM. It still worked well though and I must have played through the shareware version of DOOM 16 times that month (On about the 9th try I found the secret level).

[Stealthy Ivan]

A Packard Bell 486dx2. Nuff said...

[DoomUK]

About 9 years or so ago I saw Doom 2 being played on the (UK) TV show Gamesmaster.

But the first experience of PLAYING Doom was on the Atari Jaguar. Those were the days...*reminisces*

[GMan]

DMFDxUconn said:

...sega 32x version had something like 54 levels.

The Sega *Saturn* version had 54 levels (including secrets) and all the monsters bar the Arch-Vile (replaced by the nightmare spectre). The 32x version had 15 levels and the FM sound chip did NOTHING for the music at all. Every note sounds like a fart. And the enemies couldn't turn around - they always faced you; like the SNES version, I think.

You can get 32x emulators and the Doom 32x ROM is quite easy to get. Check it out to be sure.

Oh, and I had my first Dooming experince on the 32x version, aged 13.

[Spike]

I remember my dad made me shit a brick in a practical joke. He set up a .bat file to run on DOS startup. It looked identical to the Doom loadup, only once those dots had finished lining up, the system asked if it was ok to format the entire hard drive.
Of course, i hit 'N', but it went ahead and looked as though it was formatting away quite happily.
The bastard. This is the same bloke who promised me a NIN cd for my birthday, only to give me a 'hoax' present : a casette case containing nine one-inch nails.

[188DarkRevived]

I was a 9-year old kid who had access to his dad's 486 desktop machine. 'Nuff said. Period.