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Something I didn't think to ask before: will this also include runners-up and honorable mentions, or is it only for Cacoward winners?

So I think this warrants a bump: I recently learned that Doom (along with a number of classic Id games) has been hosted on GitHub since January 2012 - the GNU licensing was only added this year - and has over 12,000 stars, and GitHub stored its most popular/starred repositories in the Arctic World Archive up in Svalbard in 2020. This almost certainly means that Doom and a number of other games such as Quake and Wolfenstein 3D, since they also have thousands of stars on ID's repository, are indeed preserved long-term. The GitHub code vault program includes a "tech tree" that basically explains what it is and the technology that it's based on, too. It probably doesn't have a '90s Pentium computer running DOS, though.

Well, they're not so lost now, are they? They're somewhere near the top of my (very long) wads-to-play list.

I wanted to try this, but I kept getting Fatal Errors after firing a weapon. I redownloaded GZDoom, made sure I wasn't autoloading anything and still had this problem. Shame, it looked like a cool mod!

Looks like it was... Doomed.

Ah, a fellow Tricks and Traps enjoyer :gigachad: Personally it's hard for me to pick just one. I like Level 1 of No Rest For The Living, that being The Earth Base, and I've got a soft spot for Map11 (which actually has two official names) - maybe it's because of the demo file that plays every time you boot the game up. As for the first game, E2M2 is great, but if I had to pick one favorite I'd probably go for the corrupted base aesthetic of E2M7 (Spawning Vats, can't go wrong with an ominous name like that) or the Hell fortress styles of E3M3 (Pandemonium) and E3M4 (House of Pain).

Well then!

Sunder's in the Top 25 Missed Cacowards. That counts, right?

I really like this. I went to the trouble of downloading all the cacoward winners myself so I could play them with my own configuration, but this is still very good. I feel like it would be simple to do the Top 100 Wads from '94 to '04 and the first ten years of the Cacowards considering how simpler things were then. Is there any specific reasoning behind including Prboom+ and Doom Retro over, say, Crispy Doom or Woof?

Cold as Hell is a 2008 Cacoward winner TC that I personally like a lot. It's definitely got the cold, solitary feeling.

Apologies if this post is uncouth, but since the thread is now technically active, would it be safe to say that additional questions about the idgames Archive can be posted here?

Are we forgetting the scariest, most immersive Doom story ever written?

A nice multicolored fox. I have no idea if it's an OC or what.

I think I pilfered that from earlier in this thread actually.