Hi once again to all you good old gamers. If you have any screenshots or comments on the previous Mario brothers series, please don’t hesitate to post them. I am Chris and I will discuss good old PC games. Unlike consoles, PC games that were not just a ball and a stick or simple 2D third person types, came out after the first Nintendo. One of the most first and most notable popular PC games of the time was Doom.

Released in 1993 by developer ID software, I am sure that all of you who ever played on a computer back in the day encountered this game. It is the second most popular first-person shooter of the era, right behind Wolfenstein 3D which was released in 1992 for DOS (never had a chance to play it). The point of the game is to make it to the exit in a given level (map) and kill all the monsters that you encounter. It’s kind of like Mario bros but more violent in that there is some blood and you are shooting from the POV of the character.

I clearly remember playing this game around 1995-96 in my dad’s TV/VCR repair shop on a 60mhz 8mb ram computer, constantly trying to get through each map only to get frustrated by the constant bombardment of monsters and obstacles that prevented you from getting from one side to the other. Since I was young, playing Doom was sometimes a little frightening in that it felt so real and I was always so concentrated. Unlike Mario Bros, this game could send shivers down a young kid’s back playing at night in the dark. Of course compared to today’s FPS games, this game is a joke but it pioneered the FPS genre. A movie was even made shortly after the release of Doom 3, staring "The Rock” from WWE.

Here is a little flash game of Doom that I found that gives you an idea of how this game was back in the day, with the same kind of monsters, guns, and maps, although it has a different menu layout as you can see from above.

http://www.aeonity.com/ab/games/shooters/doom.php

Next Post I will get into Duke Nukem 3D, until next time, Chris