Doom (1993)

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|name = ''Doom''
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|Picture = <tabber> MS-DOS = [[File:3907-doom-dos-front-cover.jpg|330px]]|-|PlayStation = [[File:Doomplaystation.jpg|330px]]|-|The Ultimate Doom = [[File:8276346-the-ultimate-doom-dos-front-cover.jpg|330px]]</tabber>
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|Quote = {{Quote|As you walk through the main entrance of the base, you hear animal-like growls echoing throughout the distant corridors. They know you're here. There's no turning back now.|The game's manual}}
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|Genre = First-person shooter
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|Platforms = [[MS-DOS]]<br/>[[32X]]<br/>Atari Jaguar<br/>[[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]]<br/>[[PlayStation]]<br/>[[3DO Interactive Multiplayer]]<br/>[[Sega Saturn]]<br/>Acorn Archimedes<br/>Game Boy Advance<br/>Xbox<br/>Xbox 360<br/>iOS<br/>PlayStation 3<br/>Microsoft Windows (Doom95)<br/>Nintendo Switch<br/>Playstation 4<br/>Xbox One<br/>[[Android]]
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|Release Date = MS-DOS:<br><small>NA: December 10, 1993<br>EU: December, 1993</small><br>Mac OS<br><small>NA: November 4, 1994</small><br>Atari Jaguar<br><small>NA: November 28, 1994</small><br>PC-98<br><small>JP: December 9, 1994</small><br>PlayStation<br><small>NA: November 16, 1995<br>EU: December 1995</small><br>The Ultimate Doom:<br><small>WW: April 30, 1995</small><br>RISC OS<br><small>EU: 1998</small><br>Game Boy Advance<br><small>NA: October 24, 2001<br>EU: November 16, 2001</small><br>Xbox 360<br><small>WW: September 27, 2006</small><br>iOS<br><small>EU: October 30, 2009<br>NA: October 31, 2009</small><br>PlayStation 3<br><small>NA: November 20, 2012</small><br>Android, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One<small><br>WW: July 26, 2019</small>
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|Developer = [[id Software]]
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|Publisher = GT Interactive
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|Franchise = ''[[:Category:Doom games|Doom]]''
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|Sequel = ''[[Doom II: Hell on Earth]]''
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|Protagonist = Doomguy
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|Country = United States}}
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'''''Doom''''' is a 1993 first-person shooter developed by [[id Software]] for MS-DOS. An updated version with an additional episode and more difficult levels titled ''The Ultimate Doom'', was released in 1995 and sold at retail.
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==Plot==
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An unnamed space marine is shipped to Mars to act as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation. During an experiment involving teleportation, a device creates a portal to Hell and unleashes demons and evil forces on the Mars base, making Deimos disappear and causing the scientists and security guards to die horribly while the evil revives them as zombies. It's up to the Marine to fight off the demons and zombies before Earth becomes the next to fall.
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==Why It Rips and Tears==
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# The premise was very unique at the time, where a space marine must fight off the evil forces of Hell.
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# Many weapons are available to the marine including a rocket launcher, a plasma rifle, a chainsaw, and the BFG9000.
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# The BFG9000 is the most powerful gun in the game and is the most iconic in the ''DOOM'' franchise right with the Super Shotgun. A single shot is enough to turn entire rooms of but the toughest monsters into steaming piles of gore. It uses 40 cells with every single blast note, but is quite slow to fire, with a long delay between the trigger being pulled and a projectile leaving the barrel. The initial plasma ball can deal up to 800 damage, and after it explodes the gun launches 40 hitscan rays in a cone-like pattern, for a total maximum of 4,280 damage and an average of 2,200.
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# Great graphics that featured details that hadn't been seen in an FPS game at the time.
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# There are many enemy types including demons, zombie soldiers (who shoot guns), flaming skulls, and more.
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# The game has bosses that are amalgamations of cybernetics like the Cyberdemon and Spiderdemon.
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# The game has powerups that are hidden in each level.
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#* Backpack: Two times the ammo capacity.
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#* Berserk: It brings you back up to 100 health if you're anywhere below that, and boosts the power of your punches.
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#* Invulnerability
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#* Invisibility
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#* Light amplification visor: Allows the player to see in dark rooms.
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#* Radiation shielding suit: Protects from floor damage.
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# This game introduces the automap feature, meaning that there is now an overhead map that is drawn as the player explores. You can even find a computer map that will reveal unvisited areas, which is helpful when finding secrets. This automap feature would become a staple of FPS games for years to come.
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# The game is great for mods and has had a modding community that has been going strong since 1994.
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# It has been ported unofficially to numerous bizarre platforms; so many ports exist, including for esoteric devices such as calculators, thermostats, oscilloscopes, printers, a digital pregnancy stick, and even '''Doom itself.'''
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# The game introduced multiplayer deathmatch, which would become a staple of multiplayer FPS games to this day.
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# The PlayStation port is filled with new exclusive details, such as new ambient music, realistic gun sounds, new enemy sounds, new levels, much darker lighting for the atmosphere, Super Shotgun and Doom II enemies in the first Doom game levels and even includes ''Doom II''.
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# The soundtrack is great and takes inspiration from heavy metal and hard rock songs from Metallica, AC/DC, Pantera, Slayer, etc.
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#* The 3DO version (despite being a terrible port) has one of the best version of the soundtrack, which can be modded on PC.
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# The PC version has source ports that you can use to play Doom WADS, and you can even easily make your graphics, sound levels, etc. practically making your own FPS games out of Doom.
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# The Atari Jaguar port is the closest of the console ports to the PC original, having a smooth frame rate, great visuals, and great textures, though it doesn't have any music during gameplay.
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# The ending was a perfect way to tease ''[[Doom II: Hell on Earth]]''.
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==Bad Qualities==
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# Except for the PlayStation and Atari Jaguar, all of the original console ports like the [[Doom (32X)|32X]], [[Doom (Sega Saturn)|Sega Saturn]], and [[Doom (SNES)|SNES (although it's still a fairly decent version)]] versions suffer from a variety of issues including downgraded graphics, terrible AI behavior, and framerate issues, with the most infamous being the [[Doom (3DO)|3DO port]]. In addition, all of the console ports are missing varying amounts of levels and bosses.
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#* The PlayStation version uses a password system instead of being able to save to a memory card.
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#* Unlike the other console ports, the Atari Jaguar port does not have any music during gameplay.
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# Armor doesn't work as it does in future FPS games since your armor doesn't deplete completely before your health does, but instead absorbs a set percentage of hit point damage depending on its color: 33% for green armor and 50% for blue. Counterintuitively, this means collecting green armor within a certain range of values can make you more vulnerable.
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# There are only two bosses in the game: the Cyberdemon and the Spider Mastermind.
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==Reception==
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''Doom'' received critical acclaim and was widely praised in the gaming press, broadly considered to be one of the most important and influential titles in gaming history. However, it did face controversy (especially from Christian groups) for extreme violence and heavy satanic imagery.
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''Doom'' is legendary for being one of the earliest first-person shooters along with ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''. It's also famous for, along with ''[[Mortal Kombat (1992)|Mortal Kombat]]'', helping to create the ESRB rating system and launch more mature video games. Since its creation, over 10 million copies of the franchise have been sold.
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==Videos==
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==Trivia==
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# ''[[GAG: The Impotent Mystery]]'' has been parodied into ''VROOM 666'' in a laptop with the Doors 97 OS (a parody of Microsoft Windows 98) location.
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# The game was (and remains) a controversial product due to its high levels of violence, gore, and Satanic imagery. It has been repeatedly criticized by Christian organizations for its diabolic undertones, and prompted fears that virtual reality technology, then in its earliest forms, could be used to simulate extremely realistic killing; in 1994, this led to unsuccessful attempts by Washington state senator Phil Talmadge to introduce compulsory licensing of VR use. The game again made national headlines in 1999, when it was linked to the [[:w:Columbine High School Massacre|Columbine High School Massacre]].
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# This game was famously ported to the Texas Instruments calculators, mainly the TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus
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