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Post your Doom video! [but don't quote video]
B00m3r Doomer replied to DuckReconMajor's topic in Doom General Discussion
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[FINAL] EVITERNITY II - FINAL VERSION OUT NOW
B00m3r Doomer replied to Dragonfly's topic in Map Releases & Development
CONGRATULATIONS for the final release!!! On the top of the list for my next YT videos -
Quake 1 Stuff Ultra Reloaded - v1.2 Final
B00m3r Doomer replied to Mánibranðr System's topic in Gameplay Mods
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Post your Doom video! [but don't quote video]
B00m3r Doomer replied to DuckReconMajor's topic in Doom General Discussion
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Post your Doom video! [but don't quote video]
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Post your Doom video! [but don't quote video]
B00m3r Doomer replied to DuckReconMajor's topic in Doom General Discussion
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Post your Doom video! [but don't quote video]
B00m3r Doomer replied to DuckReconMajor's topic in Doom General Discussion
Diabolus Ex + many mods (8:30s) First video of a serie to come -
I made a video essay about Doom 2
B00m3r Doomer replied to My Celium's topic in Doom General Discussion
VERY interesting video about Doom mechanics ! -
Did you play it when it was released in 1993? Share your thoughts...
B00m3r Doomer replied to B00m3r Doomer's topic in Doom General Discussion
Who knows, maybe she played Doom while pregnant ^^ Could explain why you like Doom -
Did you play it when it was released in 1993? Share your thoughts...
B00m3r Doomer replied to B00m3r Doomer's topic in Doom General Discussion
ha ha ha, Only 90s kids can tell stories about blowing up their PCs :D It was a great era.... I could run Doom on an old SX33 second hand PC with 8 MB RAM in 1024x768 res but I had to badly tweak my MS DOS settings (No CD-ROM driver, limited sound card functions, memory tweaks, ...) IMO, the best config ever for Doom with a 486 PC was DX4 100MHz with 16MB RAM, Sound blaster 16, SCSI disk. The kind of setup that not many people could afford... -
Did you play it when it was released in 1993? Share your thoughts...
B00m3r Doomer replied to B00m3r Doomer's topic in Doom General Discussion
I am the one asking the question but let me also share my memories about it... I was 17 in 1993, and my parents had gone to visit family for two weeks, leaving me the family apartment over the Christmas period. It was the first time they had left me alone for so long, and naturally, the minute they left, all my friends and my (very first!) girlfriend moved into the house for 15 days of relative chaos and with a hefty stock of beer. And my best friend had the shareware disk of Doom with him... We played it for 5 hours a day, taking turns, with the obsessive seriousness that was so typical of 90s gamers... For me, Doom will always be associated in my memory with that happy and somewhat silly adolescent moment that makes you wonder why it still occupies a place in your memory, but that you enjoy reminiscing about with nostalgia when you realize you're getting older. The game amazed me. But shortly after, Duke came out, then Quake, then Half-Life... and like many people, I forgot about Doom. For me, it was a legendary game, but one that belonged to the past. A game that had ceased to exist. And then came work, family, less time to play except for a few co-op sessions with old friends, but that was it... And then last year, with all the buzz around Doom's 30th anniversary, and also because of MyHouse, I started watching videos on YouTube... And I was truly blown away: Doom had never died; it continued to live underground, and the general public had no idea. I started testing maps and mods. And I fell in love with the game all over again, but more so with what the mapping and modding community has produced over the last 30 years. This game has had a truly extraordinary fate. -
Did you play it when it was released in 1993? Share your thoughts...
B00m3r Doomer posted a topic in Doom General Discussion
When Doom and Doom II were released, you were a child or teenager, and the gaming world was very different. There was no internet, so no social networks, online videos, Steam, or downloads. Just CDs, gaming magazines, word of mouth in the schoolyard... and backpacks full of copied or shareware floppy disks. The term "geek" didn’t even exist yet. Back then, in the neighborhood, the kids who had access to a PC for gaming could be counted on one hand. And what PCs they were... Often hand-assembled, sometimes in (a bit too) creative ways, without a graphical interface, only DOS... Kids today can hardly imagine what it took to configure your sound card or set up the latest game you had bought (or not bought, for that matter :) but in any case, you were never 100% sure you could play a game you had just acquired). The terms EMM / XMS, IRQ, DMA, config.sys, or autoxec.bat will probably bring back good memories... How do you remember all this ? Do you remember the first time you launched Doom or Doom II, and what memories do you have of it? Have you remained a Doom aficionado over the past 30 years, or have you only recently returned to it? When you think back to that time and that old school gaming world, do you feel nostalgia, or not at all? When you put that in perspective with what the gaming world has become today, what does it inspire in you? Back then, how did you imagine the gaming world would evolve?