DOOM

I have it I want it

Cover Art

Add

Front Cover

Scan Of

Front Cover

Packaging

Box

Country

United States

Package Comments

Shareware Version

Platforms

DOS

Added by BuzzBomber (763) on Aug 08, 2010

Front Cover

Back Cover

Media
Disk 1/2

Buy this game now

DOOM

Did You Know?

in 1998, a brazillian gang rampaged a movy theater with the intent of reinacting e1 m1. Because of this, the game was banned in brazil alongside other apogee games.
Add

Did You Know?

The level E1M2: Nuclear Plant was used for Bill Gates' promo for Windows 95.
Add

Did You Know?

The U.S. Super Nintendo version of Doom was one of the few releases for the console to have a colored cartridge (Killer Instinct being another). Doom was released in a red cartridge. Besides this, due to limitations of the SNES hardware, the enemies in the game do not have sides or backs, and are always facing the player.
Add

Did You Know?

Phobos, the moon on which the majority of DOOM takes place, is the anglicized spelling of "Φόβος", the Greek word for "fear". In Greek mythology he is the son of Ares, god of war. The planet Mars bears his Roman name.

The other moon of Mars, which disappears completely in DOOM, is "Δείμος" or Deimos, and in Greek mythology is the twin brother to Phobos.
Add

Did You Know?

In the German gaming magazine GameStar (issue 01/2007) DOOM was named as one of the "Ten Most Influential PC-Games". It is the milestone which stands for the change from 2D to 3D graphics. Since DOOM, the licensing of 3D engines is an important business branch in the PC industry.
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM was named as #3 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking by German gaming magazine GameStar (issue 12/1999).
Add

Did You Know?

The design of the monster Cacodemon is very similar to the beholder, a classic AD&D monster (with eye stalks instead of horns).
Add

Did You Know?

The BFG9000 can only be found in secret areas in the game, so it's basically a secret weapon.
Add

Did You Know?

The images for the pistol in Doom were most likely created from the Beretta 92FS pistol, which is currently the standard service pistol of the U.S. military.
Add

Did You Know?

Although the death animations of some monsters (Cacodemon, Baron of Hell) show that their blood is blue or green, when shooting or damaging these monsters while they are still alive, their blood is always red, and never any other colour.
Add

Did You Know?

The reason why there was a chainsaw in Doom, wasn't logical by any means, since there are no plants or wood to saw on Phobos or Deimos. This was explained in Doom 3, where in one of the PDA-s the player could read that the chainsaws were brought by mistake instead of hammers.
Add

Did You Know?

The name of the last level of episode 2, "Tower of Babel", is an ironic Biblical reference. It is described in Genesis 11:1-9 as a physical pathway to the Heavens. In DOOM, however, the level is the pathway to Hell, as explained in the episode's ending text.
Add

Did You Know?

On the map of E2M9, the room where the level begins, looks quite similar to the Symbol of Chaos.
Add

Did You Know?

Prior to entry of the level E2M9 (secret level of episode 2, which is called "Fortress of Mystery"), the fortress does not appear on the intermission screen. After the E2M5 statistics have been cleared, the fortress fades in on the map. Once E2M9 is completed, the fortress disappears again, but the blood splat (which marks that the level was completed) remains in place.

Add

Did You Know?

The layout of E1M8 (Phobos Anomaly) bears resemblance to Liberty Island in New York, although it is not clear whether this is intentional.
Add

Did You Know?

The Xbox version of Doom contains an exclusive secret level, titled "Sewers" (or E1M10). It can be accessed in the first level. This map contains monsters, that weren't actually supposed to be in the first episode (Lost Souls and Cacodemons) as well as Barons of Hell, which are actually bosses of the first episode. Oddly enough, completing the level will return you to E1M1.

It was originally a 1994 level, contained in the file SEWERS.WAD, intended for a nine-level episode replacement, and was designed by David Calvin, lead programmer of the Doom 3 port with Vicarious Visions, alongside David Blanshine. A bugfixed PC version can be downloaded at ClassicDoom.com alongside the Xbox version; in both cases, the level is located on E3M1. The original version is also available on the idgames archive on the 1994 compilations WADPAK2.WAD (as E3M7) and NEWDOOM.WAD (as E2M3,) but was not available on the archive standalone until 2005.
Add

Did You Know?

The revised version of the map E1M1 in Ultimate Doom contains 666 sidedefs.

A sidedef contains the wall texture data for each linedef, the linedefs themselves are what make up the "shape" (for lack of a better word) of a map.

For those who don't still know, what is so weird of there being 666 sidedefs, then i explain - 666 is the number of the devil.
Add

Did You Know?

In the Doom95 launcher for Ultimate Doom, the title of the first level is misspelled "Hanger" (,it should be "Hangar").
Add

Did You Know?

Much of the music in DOOM (and DOOM II: Hell on Earth) is likely to be inspired by songs of famous heavy metal bands. For example, the music from E1M1 is similar to Metallica's No Remorse (some also say that it is very similar to Master of Puppets), that in E1M4 resembles Rise by Pantera, and the music from E2M1 is similar to AC/DC's Big Gun.
Add

Did You Know?

It was #3 in FLUX Magazine's (Issue #4) Top 100 Video Games of All-Time.
Add

Did You Know?

In the anime-influenced TV show Megas XLR, in season 2, episode 4, "Viva Las Megas", there is a reference to DOOM. When Megas comes out of the Area 50 facility, he surprises a bunny near the facility with an explosion. This is similar to the way the Doomguy comes out of Hell and surprises a rabbit on the surface. However, in Megas XLR, the bunny doesn't, die, though it's supposed to.
Add

Did You Know?

During the second episode, you can see the tower of the last level being built on the intermission screens.
Add

Did You Know?

The 3DO release contains exclusive, CD-quality remixes of the PC's background music.
Add

Did You Know?

In a little known FTP strategy guide bundled with some BBS versions of DOOM, John Carmack is quoted as saying "DOOM is in development for the Sega Mars". The Sega Mars was in fact the codename for the Sega 32X.
Add

Did You Know?

Although on the box cover of the game the DoomGuy carries a weapon in his right hand, in the game, he is left handed - from the first person view, he carries his weapon in his left hand and also punches with his left fist.
Add

Did You Know?

If you turn noclip mode on and run through a wall, and if you continuously run in the same direction, after some time, you return to the map itself, like you ran a circle, this must be an engine glitch.
Add

Did You Know?

If u run and at the same time touch a wall in the game, you will run faster.
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM was the first game to include rocket jumping. Only, it worked a bit different from later first person shooters - instead of aiming at the ground (which you couldn't do in the game), you stand near a monster and shoot him with a rocket launcher. The result would be that you fly a bit higher, just like with a rocket jump.
Add

Did You Know?

According to GameSpy, DOOM was voted by industry insiders to be the greatest game of all time in the year 2001.
Add

Did You Know?

In the anime-influenced TV show Megas XLR, in the episode "Viva Las Megas", there is a reference to Doom. When Megas comes out of the Area 50 underground chamber, he sees a bunny in the desert, right after which the area explodes, which is kind of similar to the ending of Doom, where the Doomguy comes out of Hell, he sees his bunny, getting killed by demons right after that. Though in Megas XLR, the bunny stays alive.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom was the first game to include a deathmatch mode, in which up to four players can compete over a network or in split screen. Maps used for deathmatch were the single-player levels, made less linear.
Add

Did You Know?

The hands of the Doomguy, which millions of players believed to belong to themselves, actually are Kevin Cloud's - one of the art developers.
Add

Did You Know?

The Pistol, Shotgun, and Chaingun where photos of toy guns, while the Chainsaw was the photo of a real chainsaw. It belonged to the girlfriend of one of the art developers, Tom Hall.
Add

Did You Know?

Game Informer Magazine (Issue #138, Oct. 2004) named it one of the "Top 25 Most Influential Games of All Time".
Add

Did You Know?

In the Windows version of Doom, there are two new cheat codes- fhhall, which kills all the enemies in the level you are in, and fhshh, which makes the enemies not notice you until you collide with them, hurt them, or they hear you shoot. If you type the fhshh cheat code, you will get the message ,"Be vewy vewy quiet...". This is a reference to the Looney Tunes character, Elmer Fudd, who, when goes out hunting in the beginning of an animated short says to the audience, "Shhh... Be vewy vewy quiet. I'm hunting wabbits."
Add

Did You Know?

Want to play your Doom games with modern graphics, music and sounds ? Try out the Risen3D engine ! Visit http://risen3d.newdoom.com/ for more details.
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM was named #5 overall among the “150 Best Games of All Time” by Computer Gaming World Magazine (15th Anniversary Issue--November 1996).
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM is referenced in Friends TV series.

In season 2, episode 8, Ross must choose between Rachel and Julie and starts making a list of pros and cons of each. Joey and Chandler are helping him, and Chandler is making the list on his brand new laptop with "Twelve megabytes of RAM, 500 megabyte hard drive. Built-in spreadsheet capabilities and a modem that transmits at over 28,000 BPS".

While they're making the list, Ross says that Julie is a paleontologist just like him, while Rachel is just a waitress. To that, Chandler replies: "Waitress. Got it. You guys wanna play Doom? [looks to Ross and Joey, who stare back] Or we could keep doing this. What else?"
Add

Did You Know?

The name of Doom's fourth skill level, "Ultra-Violence", very likely comes from Anthony Burgess' novel A Clockwork Orange or its film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick. In the novel and film, the protagonist uses the term to describe the activities of himself and his gang - randomly beating up, raping and killing people.
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM was proposed for use as a tool for systems administrators in Dennis Chow's paper Doom as an Interface for Process Management; in it, through a modified version of DOOM (PSDoom or the Doom Process Manager), processes are depicted as enemies whose share of systems resources can be diminished by attacking them and which are completely terminated when their avatars are killed. (On a loaded system in which all programs' performances are strained, processes may begin attacking each other, aggressively competing -- as in Core War -- for system resources.)
Add

Did You Know?

The Steam download version of the game is listed as windows platform as the executables are modified to use a modified DOSBox (v 0.70), additionally the traditional setup.exe is missing.

Is confirmed that either Valve or id Software did not contact the DOSBox project staff and initially the game didn't includes the TXT's that must be present under the GPL license so they fail to fulfil 2 points of the GPL license.

2 days after the launch, there was an update that includes COPYING, AUTHORS and THANKS .txt of the DOSBox 0.71
Add

Did You Know?

A little tongue in cheek piece of Trivia. The first retail version only update of the Doom engine had the revision number 1.666.

For those that don't know, 666 was introduced in pop culture by the movie "The Omen" as the mark of the beast. It can be found as a birthmark on the son of Satan.
Add

Did You Know?

When the Super Nintendo I.D had to toned down some of the violice
Add

Did You Know?

When you pick up a medikit and have 25 HP or less, the game is supposed to display the message "Picked up a medikit you REALLY need!" Due to a bug this message will never display in vanilla Doom. You see, the code in question does its check of how much health you have only AFTER you pick up a medikit. Since medikits give the player 25 health, the player will always have at least 26 health when the check is performed. This bug is corrected in most Doom source ports.
Add

Did You Know?

In the very early stages of Doom the DoomGuy's right ear could take damage and turn into flimsy peace of flesh. This was removed in the later versions of Doom.
Add

Did You Know?

The Sega 32X version contains only seventeen maps, taken from the "Knee Deep in the Dead" and "The Shores of Hell" episodes. No maps from the third episode, "Inferno", have been included. (Maps present on the 32X port: E1M1-E1M8 and E2M1-E2M7, as well as the two secret levels E1M9 and E2M9).
Add

Did You Know?

After the end credits in the Sega 32X version, the game concludes by reverting to a fake DOS prompt if you activated the cheatcodes. The player cannot exit this screen without shutting off the system. If a player beats the game's levels without cheating, you will not be shown a DOS prompt, rather you will see a montage of enemies that you encountered in the game, like in DOOM II.
Add

Did You Know?

in the full version of doom 1 there is a nazi symbol in e1m4 in the shareware version of doom 1 it has been changed

type in iddt when you are looking at the map
Add

Did You Know?

Data file extension WAD means "Where's All the Data?"
Add

Did You Know?

John Carmack took the title from the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money, from the lines when Tom Cruise enters a pool hall with his favourite cue in a black case:

- "What you got in there?"
- "In here? Doom."

Add

Did You Know?

Some development facts about the Doom engine. * It was the first 3d game engine that allowed variable heights for floors and ceilings. However, it only allowed one floor or ceiling per area, making multi-storied levels impossible. * John Carmack experimented with 16 bit textures, but found the overhead unacceptable for the game. * Id designed the game to work with 16 bit as well as 8 bit sound.
Add

Did You Know?

The game makes an appearance in season 5, episode 4 of Family Guy, an animated series. Stewie Griffin is riding his bike through various locations, and one of them is a Doom level with some imps.
Add

Did You Know?

American McGee used actual ground beef for some of the textures in the game. A trick that worked so well that he re-used it in Alice
Add

Did You Know?

At 23-12-1997 id Software released the source code. You can download it from id´s FTP
Add

Did You Know?

Back in 1996 the first level of Episode 1 was implemented by Piers Johnson in TADS, resulting in "FooM" -- a text adventure game interface for the FPS we all know so well. Downloadable with source at http://mirror.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/tads/foom.tar.gz
Add

Did You Know?

Doom was ranked # 2 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom has a little-known feature that can be unlocked when starting the game from DOS. At the prompt, type in DOOM -DEVPARM. When playing the game, the game's frame-rate will be displayed at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Not only that, but the -DEVPARM parameter allows you to take screenshots by pressing the F1 key. It is widely believed that Doom is possibly the first game to allow you to do this.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom's cover art, title screen, and chainsaw weapon seem to be inspired by the Evil Dead series of movies, specifically Army of Darkness. In the movie's storyline, the main character loses his hand to evil powers and fights with a chainsaw on his arm, along with a shotgun. In case you're not willing to travel off-site to look at the movie poster to Army of Darkness, a recent Evil Dead game (also derived from the poster) has a similar look. Having said that, it would be the later 3-D game Duke Nukem 3-D, itself influenced by DOOM, that would eventually quote some of Evil Dead's most memorable one-liners. Sometimes the developers are all watching the same movies! :)
Add

Did You Know?

John Carmack once said that he fully intended to add decal support in Doom (e.g. semi-permanent marks on the walls from bullets, explosions, blood e.t.c.), but that never happened, since it would really raise the game's system requirements.
Add

Did You Know?

Dafydd Ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver wrote a set of four novels about the Doom universe. They were published between June 1995 and January 1996 by Pocket Books. You can view the covers on this fanpage.

Knee Deep in the Dead
Hell on Earth
Infernal Sky
Endgame

In May 1996, Tom Grindberg of Marvel Comics made a comic book about Doom for a gaming convention.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom was originally going to feature a story-based seamless world, similar to Half-Life. However, everyone hated Tom Hall's story idea (Soldiers playing cards? Come on!) and Carmack decided the engine couldn't handle a seamless world.
Add

Did You Know?

Rammstein used a sample of the Doom shotgun and some screaming in their song "Wöllt ihr das bett in flammen sehen" on their album Herzeleid.

Add

Did You Know?

The DOOM explosion mentioned on the Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness booklet liner notes is used on the song "Where Boys Fear to Tread", track 1 of the second disc. It's audible right before the first sung line ("Candy cane walks down...") and in some other parts of the song. Once you hear it the first time, you'll detect all the times it's been used easily ;)
Add

Did You Know?

Maybe the SPISPOPD cheat code had nothing to do with the band The Smashing Pumpkins (see below), The Smashing Pumpkins did use a sample from Doom however. Check the credits inside the booklet of the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) album and you'll read:

"Explosion from DOOM courtesy of id Software, Inc and bobby prince Music"

By the way, I've listened to this CD like a hundred times, but I can't pinpoint the song in which the sample was used so it's not very obvious.
Add

Did You Know?

The Gameboy Advance release of Doom is the only cut version - it features green blood and the Nazi symbol (a "Hakenkreuz" on the floor) in E1M4 was altered to look harmless. Being censored like this, it's the only version of Doom which is *not* banned in Germany.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom is banned in Germany for ultra violence. :)
Add

Did You Know?

There was even an Atari 2600 port of DOOM done. Or so many people thought when images of the port started spreading around the Internet, including pictures of the cartridge, a magazine ad and screenshots from the game. These turned out to be the results of a college project rendered on an Atari 800 computer by James Catalano, who for a joke posted them on a Usenet newsgroup. You can check out the images at the official 2600 Doom page, here:

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arcade/8691/2600DOOM.HTM
Add

Did You Know?

DOOM holds a certain bit of infamous publicity: it was one of the few 1st person shooters ported to nearly every OS/computer/console known! Here are some of the ports:

Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega 32X, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo64, Mac, Unix/Linux/FreeBSD, Windows, Mac, BeOS, OS/2 (I think this one exists), Sega Dreamcast (unofficial port, though), and even Kodak Digita cameras, and God knows how many more!

Hell, there may even be a toaster that can toast bagels and play DOOM out there somewhere!
Add

Did You Know?

On December 1993, Intel issued a company-wide memo banning Doom from their networks. Many big companies like this issued similar orders not just because of lost productivity but because it rendered most networks inoperative. Up until version 1.2 Doom sent data through high level broadcast packets that forced EVERY computer on a net (no matter they were running Doom or not) to transfer the data.

Regardless, even after fixing this, Intel kept the prohibition :)
Add

Did You Know?

Doom was voted #5 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).
Add

Did You Know?

In the 200th aniversary issue of Computer Gaming World, readers named it the fifth best game of all time. It also earned the fifth spot on the list from issue 150.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom was voted #12 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).
Add

Did You Know?

This game kept Novell network administrators pretty busy. The 1.0 release had a bug that slowed down networks so much that a freeware utility called "killdoom" was released shortly after mainly to overcome the problems the game caused.

Many sound effects came from retail CDs which had librairies of generic sound effects. A few sounds of doors opening and closing come to my mind, they all came from the same CD. There is probably no copyright on many sound effects in Doom as some can still be heard today in movies and TV ads, the screaming sounds still triggering a boost of adrenalin in those who remember them well...
Add

Did You Know?

Kinda surprised that no one said this before, but the alpha and beta versions of Doom are available through FTP.CDROM.COM in the pub/doom/history folder. Most are crude, technology demos, but there are some treasures.
Add

Did You Know?

Doom soundtrack called 'DooM MuSIc" was released in 1997:

Tracklist:

The Healer Stalks
At Doom's Gate
Intermission from DOOM
On the Hunt
The Demons from Adrian's Pen
Suspense
Running from Evil
Waiting for Romeo to Play
Into Sandy's City
Shawn's Got the Shotgun
Sinister
The End of DOOM
Kitchen Ace (And Taking Names)
Opening to Hell
They're Going to Get You
The Demon's Dead
Dark Halls
Demons on the Prey
DOOM
Donna to the Rescue

Add

Did You Know?

This game is on Computer Gaming World Magazine's Hall of Fame.
Add

Did You Know?

Wanna play any Doom game at 1024x768x32 with completely customizable controls, mouselook, and 3D sound? Go to the Links page and visit the JDoom site!
Add

Did You Know?

It was also the first game to make a head-first mention in a demo (okay, it's a 64k intro: Cyboman by Gazebo) a couple of *DAYS* after Doom was spread. To think of it, the uptight demo-scene back then actually accepted Doom, especially for it's amazing graphics and execution. (This is because, until that time, most demosceners considered games to be far behind demos in terms of technology. --Ed.)

People who have no idea what demo is, should visit www.oldskool.org for a detailed explanation. =)
Add

Did You Know?

Doom had a low-res mode (toggled via F5) that doubled the width of the pixels being plotted by messing with the write mask in unchained VGA mode. That, coupled with the triple-buffering used, made the game majorly fast and quite playable on a 386/40. So why was that feature removed in Doom II?

Carmack was experimenting with a Hi-Color mode that allowed more than 256 colors on the screen, but that mode halved resolution. He wanted to see what it would look like because it got rid of the color-banding due to the diminished lighting, but 160-pixels horizontally looked like ass so we removed it. It's not present in the released versions of DOOM 2, only the Alpha versions.
Add

Did You Know?

The 'SPISPOPD' cheat code (for 'no clipping') actually stands for 'Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris'. It has nothing to do with the band - rather, it's a reference to a little-known shareware game of the time (FAQ at ftp://ftp.gamesdomain.co.uk/pub/faqs/SPISPOPD.faq).
Add