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.
I remember the event well, because the download became available the day before finals.
Things did not end well.
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:
Besides the legendary Masters of Doom book, Romero released his autobiography this year:
The birth of id software – Excerpt from John Romero's autobiography
Doom used to be more popular than all of Microsoft.
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.
The original 60mhz Pentium is also 30 years old, released on March 22, 1993.
God, I feel old.
30 years of DOOM: new code, new bugs - https://pvs-studio.com/en/blog/posts/cpp/1087/
They've missed a few platforms https://gamerant.com/doom-commercial-kitchen-hardware-runnin...
Wolfenstein 3D was released on May 5, 1992
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If you are even slightly interested in its history, I recommend the book Masters of Doom. Easy read, full of little anecdotes.