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Slashdot Asks: What's Your Favorite Doom Story?
I remember loading Doom for the first time from a 3.5-inch disk back in 1994. In 1997 the source code for Doom's Linux version was released just before Christmas. A hidden Doom level appeared in Microsoft Excel, and a Doom video was also used to promote Windows 95. By 2004 a drummer from Nine Inch Nails was recording the theme song for Doom 3...
There was that weird movie with The Rock and Karl Urban. Last year Doom was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This January John Romero created a new level, and this weekend's release of a new Doom also featured a mod with one of the the original Doom II levels from 1994.
After a storied history, millions of frags, and thousands of hours of in-world gameplay, Doom holds a unique place in both the history of gaming and geeks. So share your favorite stories in the comments. What's your personal best-loved story about Doom?
There was that weird movie with The Rock and Karl Urban. Last year Doom was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This January John Romero created a new level, and this weekend's release of a new Doom also featured a mod with one of the the original Doom II levels from 1994.
After a storied history, millions of frags, and thousands of hours of in-world gameplay, Doom holds a unique place in both the history of gaming and geeks. So share your favorite stories in the comments. What's your personal best-loved story about Doom?
One day when I was very frustrated with work and people, I fired up Doom and got to the last level with the Big Nasty...and went into God mode. I decided I wanted to inflict maximum pain (to work out my frustrations) so I went after him with a chain saw...It was WONDERFUL!!! I chased him around and had him howling for a good half hour, but didn't kill him. But that was the best use for Doom I ever had...
Supreme Granter of Doctor of Obviology Letters ("A FIRM Command of the Obvious")
I found out that the text chat in Doom used a standard IPX broadcast mechanism - when my father (a network engineer) came in and told me off for my choice of language.
Apart from having Doom dreams, which I'm sure we all had (yeah?), I remember going to a supermarket after a long session, and instead of turning to walk into an aisle, turning before the aisle, and strafing out into it. At that point, Doom had leaked into real life....
I hooked up my computer to my home stereo to show the game off to my roommates. I lived in an apartment in a bad neighborhood at the time.
I started to play and got as far as two shotgun blasts in before pressing pause to answer the phone. Shortly after the phone rang there was a very loud and forceful knock at the door. Said knock was followed by 'open up, police!'.
I went to the door, confused why the police were banging on my door. Several officers were standing outside with their guns in their hands while I had my phone in my hand. In my confusion I asked them what they wanted. They said they had reports of shots being fired and demanded entrance to my apartment. I let them in and showed them my computer with the game still paused. They were incredulous and didn't believe me, searching the apartment instead.
Ten seconds later they came back after finding nothing of interest. They then let me show them the computer game. I then showed them that by clicking the keyboard I could make the shotgun noise they heard.
Many additional police vehicles were outside. The officers had not yet bothered to tell the many additional cops outside that the shotgun was just a videogame. Much panic ensued as the officers outside started to yell 'shots fired' with their fellow officers inside my apartment..
Moral of the story. Make sure the officers communicate to each other. Amazingly when all was said and done I got off with a warning (since it was before 10pm) and many policeman looking at how I hooked the computer into the stereo.
Thought I'd cleared the level, was going back scumming for ammo and goodies when one of those pink things jumped me on the stairs
Yearrghhhh !!!! - oh shit, I'm looking at a mouse with the cable ripped in half and my wife is standing there laughing with tears pouring down her face
meh, whaddya gonna do?
Our software engineering company (FileNet) network performance came to its knees every day between 5 and 6 pm. Networks team and engineering working hard to identify a possible network denial of service attach or an intrusion. Lots of multicast packets flying everywhere at a high rate of speed. Took about a week for figure out it was some staff playing doom.
Oh yeah? Well me and my friends had to play Doom while carrying the data packets by hand, in a snowstorm, both ways.
The latency was excruciating.
The first video game that made me react in real life was Leisure Suit Larry.
Oh, Eve...
Doom 2 would have got me into lots of trouble if I had gone to school in modern times. Using the editor I built a crappy level based on one of my school buildings and used the teachers photos out of my year book as the pictures for the enemies.
Sad to say I can't even remember how I did any of that any more.