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30 years ago, Doom was released

by llamaInSouth on 12/10/23, 7:54 PM with 36 comments

• by rplnt on 12/10/23, 10:51 PM

  If you are even slightly interested in its history, I recommend the book Masters of Doom. Easy read, full of little anecdotes.

• by seattle_spring on 12/10/23, 11:25 PM

  I remember the pearl-clutching satanic panic-esque concern trolling a lot of politicians and advocacy groups extolled when Doom was at its peak popularity. 30 years later and evidence to the contrary, the same types of people are doing the same thing with modern games like GTA6. It's kind of wild to watch.

• by bigjimmyk3 on 12/11/23, 1:55 AM

  I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals.

  Things did not end well.

• by ChrisArchitect on 12/11/23, 1:16 AM

  Related,

  Carmack and Romero reunited to talk DOOM for it's 30-year

  https://www.pcgamer.com/for-dooms-30th-anniversary-the-johns...

  YouTube archive:

  https://youtu.be/QvAkaJsvAXs

• by ChrisArchitect on 12/11/23, 12:56 AM

  Besides the legendary Masters of Doom book, Romero released his autobiography this year:

  The birth of id software – Excerpt from John Romero's autobiography

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36808939

• by ilrwbwrkhv on 12/10/23, 9:59 PM

  Doom used to be more popular than all of Microsoft.

• by marginalia_nu on 12/10/23, 9:42 PM

  Doom is a great example of the absolutely disgusting rate hardware advanced at in the 90s. Feels like we got much farther in the ten years between Doom 1 (1993) and Doom 3 (2003), than in the twenty between Doom 3 and 2023.

• by kristianp on 12/10/23, 9:22 PM

  The original 60mhz Pentium is also 30 years old, released on March 22, 1993.

• by empressplay on 12/10/23, 9:26 PM

  God, I feel old.

• by AndreyKarpov on 12/11/23, 7:10 AM

  30 years of DOOM: new code, new bugs - https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1087/

• by aussieguy1234 on 12/10/23, 9:37 PM

  They've missed a few platforms https://gamerant.com/doom-commercial-kitchen-hardware-runnin...

• by llamaInSouth on 12/11/23, 4:52 PM

  Wolfenstein 3D was released on May 5, 1992

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D