nostalgia about old Doom?Tell me your doomer childhood!

[dwango433]

Hi! I sincerely miss Old Doom, my god that was the best moment of my childhood,i remember when i put into the floppy drive the Doom 1 and i have played in my first time with my dad,it was so fantastic,my second FPS shooter was Return To Castle Wolfenstein,it was so fantastic, then i have played it and i have finished it.

that's all of my awesome childhood,tell me of your childhood!

[Laggy Blazko]

Well, it's hard to feel nostalgic about DooM since I play it almost every week. =P
Hmm, I remember I used to play Doom using the "no monsters" parameter because sometimes I was scared of the monsters. I still had fun looking for secrets and stuff.

PS: I lost most of my floppy disks. D:

[darkstar64]

3-4 years old, whenever I went on a computer, I was either playing Wolfenstein or Doom. I remember using cheats because I could barely play at that age and I would just go through all the levels killing everything. It wasn't until I was around 10 or 11 when I discovered I could play it online with other people (gasp!), and I found out about these things called pwads. Blew my mind. I even get nostalgia from Alien vendetta, Scythe 2, and dietest.

[Gardevoir]

I'm 3 years old and my sis turns on Doom 2. Ultra-violence, map06... sudden Revenant instakill... red screen... best childhood memories... they are going to stalk me forever...

It was fun to play Doom 2 with just a mouse back then though!

[dwango433]

3-4 years old, whenever I went on a computer, I was either playing Wolfenstein or Doom. I remember using cheats because I could barely play at that age and I would just go through all the levels killing everything. It wasn't until I was around 10 or 11 when I discovered I could play it online with other people (gasp!), and I found out about these things called pwads. Blew my mind. I even get nostalgia from Alien vendetta, Scythe 2, and dietest.

This is Interesting!

[Lollipop]

Me and my brother: "Hey dad, what should we choose on this screen?"
My dad: "Oh, that don't matter at all!"

Therefore I grew up with difficulty 3 :P

[Cruduxy]

It was fun to play Doom 2 with just a mouse back then though!

Lucky! Didn't even know strafing existed and thought mouse was trash as hell in it -pre freelook :P-

[MrSetharoo]

Honestly my first doom experience was the SNES port that I had borrowed from one of my good friends and hide from my mom which sucked and I was like "PFFFT Doom sucks" (If I remember correctly the SNES port was censored heavily?). Then my former shit self saw the PC version at my other friends house and my face exploded out of the back of my head because I wasn't really even allowed to play games that had violence in them up until I was like 13. I believe I was like 7 or 8 at the time.

Also I think the satanic themed imagery wouldn't have helped my case if she had caught me playing Doom back then.

[Samurai]

I first played doom with my dad on the PC when I was 4 years old. I saw a cacodemon and ran out of the room crying ... It scared me away from doom for the next 10 or so years.

[LuciferSam]

I've played with Doom and doom2 on 386 @ 25 mhz, and I was 10. I remember a lot of floppies :D

[Slim]

Well, it all started when my cousin let us have his Doom 64 cart, which being very afraid of things at the time I didn't wanna touch it for a long time.

But then after my brother got to Pitfalls and gave up for awhile (confusing map, thanks Midway.). Then sometime later I saw my brother jerking around with Doom Builder making startan maps, I was like "Meh."

Then after my bro told that Skulltag existed, I was skeptical at first then I really started to enjoy it, then after time went by I decided to take a vacation from Doom in general and stick to consoles for awhile, (not new-school ones mind you) and enjoy those games a bit.

Then when I came back I found that ankward period where people still used ST after Zandronum came out. So I dropped out for awhile then. Then I came back around after the remenants of ST were gone. I started to fit in a bit more (making friends and such), actually making softcore mods for personal and some public use, learning how the stuff works a bit, and I've been here ever since.

[jwaffe]

I've been playing Doom probably since the age of 3, I had no idea what I was doing back then (I thought the pistol was a boat anchor ) but I liked to walk around the interesting levels in Doom E1 (I only had the shareware episode for a long time). it was great even though my computer at the time got about 2 FPS. In the mid 2000s I found some mods but I mostly just played vanilla doom. I had no idea source ports existed.

Then around 2008 I started to revisit chex quest, found the CQFF, the Slimeinator used zdoom and gzdoom for chex mods, which I found really impressive. Then Chex 3 came out, which was awesome.

I also played some skulltag on the (CQFF hosted) Chex Quest United servers. There were no real skulltag compatible multiplayer chex mods or map packs at all at the time, so we played mercenaries, gvh, Cybercrime 3, Dwango 5, the stock Skulltag maps, etc. with a version of Doom2.wad with all of the sprites, sounds, music, and textures replaced with chex stuff. It was extremely ugly but it was fun and for a while was all I knew about Doom multiplayer. At one point they hosted Legendary CTF, I didn't get to play it online but I walked through it offline and it really left an impression with me on how pretty zDoom maps could be.

Around 2010 some random dude came on the CQU server and suggested making a Chex Quest multiplayer mod, Quadrumpusguy (now known as Argentum) was in the server with me; we made that mod (Chex Skulltag Pack/Chex Pack), which was my first large scale attempt at doom modding. The CQ multiplayer scene sort of died out, but I got a lot of good experience with it.

I've never seen that "you guys should make a chex quest multiplayer mod" guy again, I wonder if he still plays...

After making my first few maps for Chex Pack I was hooked on making maps and game content in general, I still am to this day.

[Avi]

My first Doom experience was in the library of a private Catholic school. I had an interesting childhood.

[Supplesnap]

Doom was the game that broke me out of a phase I had in FPS gaming, which was to use cheats to 'tour' the game content because I just couldn't wrap my head around how to play beyond just running forward into enemies and shooting until they died. The purpose of tactics like strafing and pop-shots didn't become clear to me until I went into multiplayer and saw it in action, and that broke my reliance on cheats in FPS games, and also drove me into a much higher skill level toward all genres of games because I realized not only how much difference a split second decision can make, but also how much easier a level is if you've been doing well before-hand.

My step-brother showed me Doom when I was a kid, and I didn't really understand it. Years later I met a guy up the road (who has since turned into a moron), and we found and played the hell out of Doom Legacy for maybe a month or so until I found out about Doom Connector and ZDaemon, which were the leading multiplayer server lists back then. Thus began a long and untreatable addiction to Doom and the satisfying challenges of the FPS genre at that time.

When I wasn't playing multiplayer or campaign, I was wandering around in map-packs alone for hours, sight-seeing and listening to MIDI/MOD-format songs, some of which I never found the source of until recent years. Other times I would go into multiplayer, and just play and play and play, and that revealed to me that unlike modern FPS, skill didn't come from understanding of cheap gameplay mechanics- it came from a much more fast-paced and tactical understanding of gameplay mechanics, which I've yearned to see return to the FPS industry for over a decade now.

There are many games in my childhood, but I think out of all of them- even the franchises of Megaman, Metroid, Unreal, Quake, Duke Nukem, and even Call of Duty 2-- none of them are as important to me overall as Doom, and I really love each of those games.

[AkumaKing]

I originally only played the SNES port. I didn't bother getting the PC version until way later after finding out about these "source ports". All I can remember from back then, though, is that turning felt very awkward for me. In a sense, my true DooM experience didn't start until last year when I finally got the PC version and tried out all the Pwads along with whatever Iwad I could hunt down.

[Doomkid]

Oh man, I love this topic.

My uncle brought Wolf3D over to my dad when I was just a baby. I remember watching them playing it, it's actually one of my first memories. By age 3, I was playing shareware Doom (like everyone using cheats that my brother discovered.. Ah, meeeemorriiiiees)

When I turned 7, my dad bought me the full Ultimate Doom, I stayed up past midnight (would have gotten in deep shit if my dad knew I was doing that) and ended up beating DIS and being scared as all hell of the Doom bunny. I had to get my brother to turn off the PC, it scared me so badly.. LOL. Those are some of my favorite/clearest memories of my childhood and Doom.

@dwango433 - Do you use DOSbox to play Doom 2? Would you, or anyone else be interested in a DOS dm?

[dwango433]

@dwango433 - Do you use DOSbox to play Doom 2? Would you, or anyone else be interested in a DOS dm?

yes i have used DOSBox, it was good,but DOSBox have's some much bugs,
i don't know how to play dm DOS, in 2007 i have discovered Zdoom,GZDoom and Doom95 sourceports.

(sorry im bad at english)