Doom I & II (1993,1994)

ID Software

Slam dunk for ID Software! If you weren't playing Doom in the early 90s "you were different and strange"! I loved Doom I, but since it didnt support modem play until later, I never got into it as much as I did Doom II. I started playing it with my friend Sam until 5 in the morning every day ove rthe summer time. I'm sure every game has at least one experience like that, please parents, don't get in the way of your children who do its..I assue you, its perfectly normal! Especially with quality software like Doom! I had this constant problem on my 386 where we would be playing deathmatch and for no reason whatsoeer, the modem would lock up and we would have to restart. Sometimes we would play for an hour without problems, sometimes it wouldnt last 5 minutes. The problem went away when I finally upgraded to the Pentium. I think my favorite levels were the city maps in the middle of the game and favorite enemy was the SpiderDemon. Making maps with the WADED editor gave multiplayer that even more dynamic edge. I think I even tried playing on DWANGO a few times, but that was a long-distance phone call

I played these two games all most all the time over a two year period. I went from beating the game on ultra-violence, to beating it with just a shotgun, then pistol (except for the end where you need the rocket launcher). I tried nightmare w/ pistol...but that wasnt going to happen. The game finally moved into the closet when Duke3D came out (and to a lesser degree, Hexen) I will still play when I get bored sometimes.