Heh, DOOM has been such a big part of my PC entertainment for so long now, I can hardly remember when I first starting playing it <grin>.
I remember back sometime in the middle of 1993 (?) seeing the shareware version at a local (now long-since gone) PC store down in Miami. I asked the guy "What is THAT?!", and he said an unreleased demo for an upcoming PC game (this, back when I was playing Wolfenstein 3D on a 286). After asking what the sys. reqs. were going to be, he said a 386-25... so's that's when I bought my first 386 class macine.
After DOOM was released, throughout the years, my PC had finally morphed into this -> http://www.cmoo.com/snor/weeds/Weeds_486DX4-100.htm , and that CPU prolly spent more of it's time playing DOOM than anything else (short of MIDI music composing).
Anonymous Freak wrote:I also remember hating trying to make dial-up multiplayer work.
Heh, a buddy and I used to play DOOM each and every weekend. All of our games were MP over our modems, and we both had two telephone line. We would connect DOOM on one, and our speaker phones on the other... sort of a realtime two-way radio 😀
I couldn't count how many weekends we wasted like this... we could ZIP through a DOOM 1 episode, or DOOM 2 in no time at all.
Years later I hooked with with Team Eternal and TeamTNT (e.g. Final DOOM/Eternal DOOM/etc..), and the rest is history.
Ahh... the memories 😀