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Doom Is 30, but Hasn’t Aged the Way Games Are Supposed To (1990s game doom anniversary) (ign.com | ia)
4 points by bmonkey325 538 days ago | 5 comments
  • bmonkey325 538 days ago
    I remember Wolfenstein came out, I thought pretty cool. When Doom appeared on the scene I was just blown away. I remember playing with my neighbor over a serial cable and that was really cool to lay coop like that. Soon after that I built a network with Artisoft LanTastic. It was an amazing time to gsme.
  • Jaruzel 535 days ago
    I was lucky enough to be able to play Doom 0.9 when it had just come out as shareware (before the retail release) over IPX (on 10BASE2 cabling) across three machines so as to enable the 3-monitor-single-view mode.

    IIRC, you set the middle one up as the server and launched the left and right machines/monitors with the -left or -right parameter accordingly.

    It is with some wry amusement that I recently noticed that a few YouTubers over the past few months have only just 'discovered' this 'hidden' feature in Doom. ;)

    Darnit, I'm old...

    • jgrahamc 535 days ago
      Don't worry about being old. You're very welcome here :-) I too played Doom over IPX with 10BASE2.
  • ivolimmen 536 days ago
    Doom still works. A lot of modern games don't. Enshitification... Yes I am looking at you EA, Epic, etc.
  • spc476 537 days ago
    Doom has probably been ported to more diverse hardware than any other game I can think of.
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