20 years ago - Doom!

[Hoopz]

Time to dig out the null modem, spend an hour setting it up, and then start the gib fest.

[JoeB]

Gee thanks!! You made a cold shiver go down my spine. I remember playing this game like it was yesterday!! @$;$;@( life passes by way too darn fast!!

[mamenewb100]

You mean the 56K er.... 28.8K days of gaming? Like when you thought you killed someone only to find out a few seconds later that you were shooting at air and actually died 10 seconds ago from a lag spike? Those were the days of real skill.

[DaOld Man]

Doom definitely did rock. Deathmatch mode was really fun.
If you haven't tried Serious Sam, you need to. I think it is leaps above Doom or Duke Nukem . (Of course it wont run on a DOS machine though.)

[Slippyblade]

28.8... Wow, kids.

I actually downloaded the shareware release on a 1200 baud modem back in the day.  My god, that game was the most amazing thing EVER (at the time).  First piece of shareware I ever registered.  Buddy of mine was beta-testing a 28.8 modem for USR back then.  Thing was bigger than a modern day flatbed scanner.

[lilshawn]

28.8... Wow, kids.

I actually downloaded the shareware release on a 1200 baud modem back in the day.  My god, that game was the most amazing thing EVER (at the time).  First piece of shareware I ever registered.  Buddy of mine was beta-testing a 28.8 modem for USR back then.  Thing was bigger than a modern day flatbed scanner.

yeah my first was 1200bps. hung on to that sucker forever. i think my next was 14.4... By then 56k was standard. 

took forever compared to todays internet.

1999: should i download this 3 mb MP3?...it'll take 4 hours. but i really like this song though....

today: I'll just download the whole discography...not sure if i like the band or not.

[mamenewb100]

28.8... Wow, kids.

I actually downloaded the shareware release on a 1200 baud modem back in the day.  My god, that game was the most amazing thing EVER (at the time).  First piece of shareware I ever registered.  Buddy of mine was beta-testing a 28.8 modem for USR back then.  Thing was bigger than a modern day flatbed scanner.

I'm actually 32 years old but didn't try DOOM until 28K modems were pretty standard. Guess you could say I was not a hardcore DOOM or FPS player. So forgive my ignorant comment. ;P

Was a fun game for it's time and I know future games built on it's success but I liked Quake many times better.

[Slippyblade]

Well, Quake was the technological follow up to Doom and was done by the same people.  Doom broke barriers in so many ways.  It was truly revolutionary for its time.  Even if you didn't like the game due to content or play style, it's impossible to dismiss the leaps that Doom made for the industry as a whole.

[jasonbar]

I win. Atari 830 was my first.

300 big fat bauds.

-Jason

PS--DOOM was my first network game played--used to play after work at my job in 93/94. So full of awesome.

[Slippyblade]

Me and all my friends were huge fans of the local dial-up BBS's at the time.  Most of us were on either 1200's or 2400's though I had ONE buddy that was still running 300.  He could type faster than that modem could move data, it was P-A-I-N-F-U-L to watch.  Tradewars 2002 took forever, he'd go so far as to shut off the ASCII graphics even. 

[Hoopz]

300 baud for C64 that fit into the cartridge slot.

Quake is great.  I remember downloading and playing in the Quake Test (the level the that came out before the demo) and being amazed.

But nothing prepared you for the monsters and demons in Doom when you could hear them before opening doors....

[JDFan]

Gee thanks!! You made a cold shiver go down my spine. I remember playing this game like it was yesterday!! @$;$;@( life passes by way too darn fast!!

Same here -- although it was yesterday that I was again playing it -- ChancKJ mentioned having problems getting old Dos games running on win 7 x64 in the software Forum and mentioned DOOM so had to break out D-fend Reloaded and make sure I had it working on it before posting in the thread so afterwards had to play a few hours !!

[nordemoniac]

28.8... Wow, kids.

I actually downloaded the shareware release on a 1200 baud modem back in the day.  My god, that game was the most amazing thing EVER (at the time).  First piece of shareware I ever registered.  Buddy of mine was beta-testing a 28.8 modem for USR back then.  Thing was bigger than a modern day flatbed scanner.

Heh, I remember that. I was just a kid, and my friends dad got us shareware from the big US... It was like christmas every time!

Remember in the later years as well... Wacky wheels...

[wp34]

I win. Atari 830 was my first.

300 big fat bauds.

-Jason

PS--DOOM was my first network game played--used to play after work at my job in 93/94. So full of awesome.

Man I wanted one of those but by the time I bought my modem they had replaced it with the 1030 which was direct connect. I wanted to be like David Lightman AND the dumb thing clashed with my Atari 800.

[Hoopz]

I read a brief interview with John Carmack yesterday and he discussed how he knew very little about networking and the protocol he put in the game didn't handle the traffic in the best way for the network.  He got a call from an admin in the middle of the night who was pissed as hell about the game on his network. 

How times have changed for Carmack....

[wp34]

Was Doom the one where you could blow up a urinal?  I seem to recall Doom or Duke Nukem let you do that.

[pbj]

Null modem cable?  Meh.

ATX1D for life.

[RoyalScam]

300 baud for C64 that fit into the cartridge slot.

User port

Yeah, started with a VIC20 and VIC Modem at 300 baud for Compuserve via telnet. Eventually a C64 and a Westbridge 1200 baud running a BBS. EarlyPC days started with a generic 1200 baud Hayes Clone, someone will remember the ad, "If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it must be a duck...". After that it was USRobotics from 2400 baud up to 33.6 never made it to 56k before I got DSL.  DL'd doom at 2400 baud, waited in the FTP queue for Quake at 14.4, those were fun days.  Traded a lot of MST3K cd img files at 14.4, sometimes took days I loved every minute of it. Do I want to go back? NO! I adore the speed of my Cable Modem, but I will say, I was much pickier in what I DL'd in the past as in "was it worth the time and the dial up?".  Now I just seem to collect crap that I don't really want or need and  have to delete it every month.

Death match DOOM was the Best though!

Regards,
Scam

[Hoopz]

Was Doom the one where you could blow up a urinal?  I seem to recall Doom or Duke Nukem let you do that.

That was Duke Nukem.  Another classic.   

[PL1]

Was Doom the one where you could blow up a urinal?  I seem to recall Doom or Duke Nukem let you do that.

That was Duke Nukem.  Another classic.   

IIRC Duke Nukem 3D, second level (Red Light District), was where the urinal gag first appeared in the franchise -- "Ah, much better!"   

The original two games were fun, but Duke Nukem 3D was definitey a huge leap forward.

Duke Nukem (Original game)



Scott

[Hoopz]

Yep, we both meant Duke Nukem 3D.   

[dgame]

Null modem cable?  Meh.

ATX1D for life.

^^^
Rich kid. One null modem cable was cheaper than two real modems. 

[Drnick]

Where did all the time go.  Downloaded with a hayes 1200.  Then wired my house out with a bnc ring network for lan play.  Anyone else try looking at the side of the monitor to see what monsters were round the corner   

[pbj]

Rich kid. One null modem cable was cheaper than two real modems. 

Only had one modem.  Just had to drag the entire computer to a friend's house.  No lag, man! 

:-P

[roknrol]

Anyone else try looking at the side of the monitor to see what monsters were round the corner.

Totally. And try to duck the fireballs from the imps.

[lilshawn]

Rich kid. One null modem cable was cheaper than two real modems. 

Only had one modem.  Just had to drag the entire computer to a friend's house.  No lag, man! 

:-P

damn right. it was way faster to disassemble the computer and drag it down to my friends house than it was to transfer 10 mb of shareware games like commander keen and doom between us at 9600 bps via modem.

that was before pkzip made it super easy to beak big files down to floppy size.

[ark_ader]

Yep 1200/75 for online fun with my 25mhz 486 SLC and doom!

[codemonkey76]

I remember going to a friends house who had a thing in his computer called a sound blaster, instead of beeps and buzzes he had real sound effects and Wolfenstein was the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!!! (before doom)

[PL1]

Doom LAN party at a friend of a friend's house.

Had to work that day so I showed up with my computer 10 hours after it started -- party still going strong.

12 systems on 2 LANs spread through the living room and dining room.

An hour later, someone loads up a modded deathmatch level with TONS of ammo/weapons to grab.

The mod changed the sound of picking up an item to Homer Simpson saying "Donuts".

"Do, do, don, donu, do, do, donuts, donuts, do, donuts. . . ."  Some of the guys were laughing too hard to play.         

It was a running joke for months.


Scott

[ark_ader]

I remember going to a friends house who had a thing in his computer called a sound blaster, instead of beeps and buzzes he had real sound effects and Wolfenstein was the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---!!! (before doom)

Soundbaster was for XWing and TieFighter.  Endless nights of supreme tie fighter action. 

[Hoopz]

Downloading all the various Doom wads was so revolutionary.  And you're right Scott, the Simpsons mods were everywhere and  a lot were so well done.

Since someone mentioned Quake earlier, I still have fond memories of playing against the Reaper bot in DM4 for hours. Put 5 or 6 in and it was a fragfest.  I actually got that running sometime in the last year or so just to play it again.

[pbj]

Wolfenstein is probably the only game that's truly startled me.  Those damn guards yelling when you rounded a corner were nerve wracking.

I liked Doom but didn't really care for Doom 2 primarily because I don't believe anyone has ever beaten 2 without use of cheat codes.  I used to challenge people $20 that they couldn't do it and no one ever claimed the money.   

[ark_ader]

I used to challenge people $20 that they couldn't do it and no one ever claimed the money.   

Sounds familiar.

[lilshawn]

Once I upgraded to the overclocked P2 @ 400mhz with the 512mb of  RAM I ditched Doom and graduated to Quake. That game was the bomb with OpenGL at 1280x1024 
I ran that poor Rage Fury MAX into the ground with that game.

[PL1]

Downloading all the various Doom wads was so revolutionary.

One of my favorites was the one that changed the Cacodemon into Bill Clinton's face spitting Tax/Spend.   


Scott

[DeLuSioNal29]

Ha ha, I had a 300 baud modem on my C-64 too.  Was on BBS boards WAY before the internet became popular.  I even recall a buddy of mine playing TradeWars around that time too.   

As for Doom, I recall a buddy of mine wanting to buy the more expensive 486 because he saw that my 386DX40 could only play DOOM in small Window.  (IIRC, the + and - buttons would make the full screen window bigger or smaller).

DeLuSioNaL29