Doom (1993) In Retrospect | The FPS That Changed The Game

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Doom II From 1994

I just completed Doom II on the "I'm too young to die" difficulty level. Even this is not easy. It is a bit of a slog to get through.

I was bored with some of the early levels, but midway through the levels got much more imaginative.

If they had broken the game into 3 or 4 episodes, I think that it would have been more rewarding for the player. It would have provided a better sense of progression.

The Super Shotgun is very satisfying. It has enough power that I sometimes choose it over other more powerful weapons.

I definitely enjoyed Doom 1 more. Do I find Doom II interesting enough to play it through on the other difficulties? Probably. The complexity of some levels is discouraging, but players in 1994 got a lot of gaming experience for their money. The game is bigger and more difficult.

I played the game using "Chocolate Doom", which uses the same low resolution as the original game. I didn't mind this at all, but now that I have downloaded both ZDoom and its successor GZDoom, I think that I prefer the game with the higher image quality.

Chronologically Gaming Pooyan (Atari 2600)

I wrote a BASIC game similar to "A Pair of Zippy Road Runners" on at least one 8 bit computer.  I don't remember which one but it was probably a Timex-Sinclair computer.  It started with a wide road that would get more narrow as the game progressed.  The road being drawn on the bottom would move randomly left or right on every frame.

I think that my best 8-bit BASIC game was similar to Snake.  I filled the screen with blocks as barriers and other characters as food to be gobbled up.  The goal is to get all the goodies without running into the blocks or yourself.   I know that I wrote this in the late 1970s on a friend's OSI-C1P, but I wrote something similar on my high school's TRS-80.

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