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The History of Doom On All Systems
Consolevision writes: "This news from dcvision.com -- One of our great members (Steveffs) has written a great guide to the history of Doom, right from the beginning to the very newest ports of it, it is an exceptional read for those who have followed gaming for a long time. The History of Doom will take a short while to load as it is a rather large document but you will enjoy :)" This link is unfortunately to a .doc file, but Mr. Vision continues: "I have now split the History of Doom into 5 pages and converted to html for those who are having trouble with the rather large but very impressive doc file."
Here are the pieces: Page1,
Page2,
Page3,
Page4 and
Page5
Why a history of doom ?
Some kiddies would say now: "Hey first graphical interactive 3D game" which is plain wrong at least Ultima Underworld came before and HAD A PLOT instead of shooting everything at moves (yes, you won't belive this !).
Gaming over a network ?
Done before. Even action games. Nothing new or creative.
What was really innovative of DOOM ?
Combing all these features ?
Yes that's nice, but no innovation.
I suppose DOOM's success is due to unlimited agression and violence, which was hardly found in many games before in this way (ok. Wolfenstein, but the Naziesque atmosphere was disapproved by too many potential players).
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
Marathon Kicked it's pathetic little ass...
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Burt "Out of my mind back in 5 minutes"
Don't tell me he has grown up into a broad-shouldered hairy man?!
All my dreams torn asunder!
I can't believe how many posts i've read attacking this man's work. The author is a black man, there is a huge cultural difference between the African-American community and the privleged majority, it is manifested in their unique writing style and technique. That doesn't mean he is a poor writer, not following your grammar rules doesn't mean he isn't an intellecutal. The majority of slashdot people had everything handed to them because of white-skin-privlege and never had to deal with the systematic oppression, now take that into consideration before you attack this man trying to make a positive contribution to the digital community, which you seem to be making every effort to exclude him from.