Slashdot Mirror
Ten Years Of Doom Celebrated
mmx writes "GameSpy is partway through a week-long feature celebrating the 10th anniversary of seminal FPS Doom: 'Ten years ago today, Jay Wilbur uploaded an executable to the overloaded University of Wisconsin FTP that pretty much changed first person shooter games forever. He was having trouble because it was packed with rabid DOOM fans, slavering over the demo's imminent release. Eventually Wilbur had to have them all kicked off, and only then did he manage to get the roughly two-megabyte file online.' GameSpy's Doom timeline is pretty interesting, and Doomworld has also started a special anniversary feature. Happy birthday, Doom... and thank you, id software."
The time you were cornered in a secret room, with only the chainsaw with which to defend yourself while your fully armed roomate who just chased you into the hallway stalked you with the RPG. Only to have you sneak up and go Friday the 13th on him as your fellow dorm dwellers watched.
That time you were teaching the guy across the hall how to play agaist the guy down the hall. He was standing at the bottom of a "T" intersection with the rocket launcher, and just watched Eric run by. You shouted "FIRE NOW!" with Eric no where in sight, only to watch him get gibbed as he ran directly in front of the rocket a second later.
That's one doomed space marine!
Video game history will be kind to Doom, because it wrote video game history. As far as other video games have made an impact, Doom has had the most influencial impact launching shareware into mainstream (at least at the time) and re/defining multiplayer.