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Doom Archive Reopened
Obiwan Kenobi writes "Computer game history buffs rejoice: Lee Killough's Doom Archive has been reopened at John Romero's site. Its been offline since 1998, when it was handed to Romero to look after, and has finally resurfaced. The info inside is priceless, if a bit Romero-centric, but who can deny the nostalgia of downloadable alpha versions, beta screenshots (complete with wild health meters) and the original Doom Press Release where the game tagline reads "Doom-the sanest place is behind a trigger.""
I think little handheld thingies from Tiger do this now :)
So when can we get a full daikatana archive? What? nobody else want the alpha's for that?
---- Anyone can act smart, but it takes a smart person to act stupid. ----
It's been close to 9 years since I first played doom and I still find myself strafing around corners from time to time.
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"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
You know you have been playing DOOM too long when...
...going to sleep you open the bedroom's door and instead of turning lights on you fire a missile into the room.
...you sleep with a chainsaw under your pillow,and justify it with 'you never know what lurks in the dark'.
...going into a room or getting off an elevator, you run in and out quickly to see what follows you out.
...you don't worry so much about getting hurt, since you'll probably pick up one of those blue spheres somewhere.
...watching someone come out of an elevator makes your mouse finger twitch.
...the dog growls and you dive over the couch while reaching for a shotgun.
...you find yourself strafing around corners from time to time.
...you push on a wall as you walk down the hall looking for secret entrances.
...you rush for a neon-blue down vest in K-Mart.
...you reach for your chainsaw when your wife's cold gives her the sniffles.
...you search for a radiation suit before going into a swimming pool.
...you instinctively target trash cans while walking around campus/work.
...you look for sniper spots above you when getting in an elevator.
...you can't stop squinting as you walk around your house.
...you think you can actually walk through walls.
...you start making chainsaw noises if you hear a strange noise.
...you wish you had a chainsaw, just in case.
...you buy a radiation suit and Infra-red goggles, just in case.
"Its been offline since 1998, when it was handed to Romero to look after [...]"
He's a crappy webmaster too!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
John Romero is secretely a woman.