My follow-up review of the new Doom is now ready for viewing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGkpqhD431c

Every time he gets excited he turns into Duke Nukem lmao.

Doom is probably the single most important game ever released, and it was an indie title made by ten guys in a rented apartment.

I grew up in a Catholic hosuehold, and my Dad thought Doom was the best Christian video game ever made. He always thought "What's more Christian then going to hell and blowing up Satan's minions with a rocket launcher?" :D

Watching him blast through Doom 2 on Ultra Violent kept me entertained and on the edge of my seat for hours. :)

1993, i remember the day my dad walked in with a boxed copy of Doom and said "son, leave whatever you're doing and check this out. This is the best game on the market right now."

25 years later he is still playing 2 games religiously; Red Alert 2 and Doom.

Calls it lazy game reviews. Does a ton of research before hand

"If there's demons, you're probably going the right way".  Sound advice when playing the game of Doom.  Terrible advice for real life.

I think Doom has aged quite well, definitely a fair bit better that Wolf 3D.

Here in Germany Doom I+II were put on the black list pretty soon after they had been released and shops were not allowed to advertise them or sell them to minors. As long as you were under eighteen you had to know somebody who knew someone to get a a copy of Doom. :-) Being only sixteen at the time, I bought both parts of Doom on a single CD-Rom while on holiday in London, England back in 1995, which made me the coolest kid in the class. :-D

I remember the first time I saw Doom - 1994, my mom brought the shareware version from somewhere. We all gathered around the monitor and stared mesmerised at it - it was as if a window had just opened into another reality. Never before had we even imagined our humble 40 MHz computer (with 8 MB RAM) could bring something that realistic to life. It defied all logic and sanity. It felt ALIVE. IT WAS ALIVE!

Twenty-two years later Doom still is my all-time favorite game. And I have yet to get tired of it :)

P.S. I was only 9 years old in 1994, yet my parents never restricted me from playing Doom... for which I am grateful.

DOOM is such a classic. Easily one of my most-played games of all time, I still go back to it frequently today. Pretty much everything you said is spot-on.

I can still remember watching my father play The Ultimate Doom back when I was 6 years old. My mother didn't want me seeing the violent gameplay, so we'd always have to sneak over to the computer when she wasn't looking.

I remember being a kid and my mom took my sister and I to a baby sitter during the summer. That lady had a son who honestly was maybe in their mid 20s looking like the typical nerds you hear about. He was always on his computer, having many games but THIS game was one I saw alot. I never knew what it was but it caught my attention. A little girl who should be playing with barbies was amazed with shooting and gore. I since later found Doom 2 and 3 at a thrift store and so began my old computer game collection. Thank you so much for these videos!

I love the personal touch with the story of a 7 year old LGR seeing Doom for the first time. Good story teller, he is.

Finally, someone speaks with the same amount of enthusiasm for this game that I have had for thirty years

I never understood religious outrage at games like Doom. You are literally killing demons. Why the hell would devil worshipers make a game about killing devils?

I guess if you think demonic images invoke them or something.

I remember swapping shareware disks at high school and coming across Doom. We talked the Netware admin in helping us set it up and played deathmatch and co-op modes on their Everex 386's. Probably the first network game I ever played.

Doom is a game that cannot be reviewed, but looked back on in retrospect because it is one of the most important games in history.  You never forget your first experience.

My soul was taken too... forever.
My 486, its 11pm, no lights: the music has me pumped. I turn the corner into a long dark hallway. Can hear the snarls... they're coming for me. I can't see them... I fear to go in, but there's no turning back. Out of the darkness a fireball flies in, and then another; just missed me!  Shotgun in hand, fire against fire is the only way forward. That monster's head explodes but there're so many others behind him! Ahhrr the fireball burn!  The last one is blown 6 feet backwards from a shotgun to the face... Damn you monsters back to hell!

Heart pounding, adrenaline at unhealthy sky diver levels, still twitching on the WASD keys.  Yeah, that was Unforgettable.

When you go to youtube.com and look on your homepage and the first video is "LGR - DOOM - DOS PC Game Review" just as you made yourself dinner. This is going to be a good day.