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Added by Dave Snider on April 6, 2009

Words can not describe the awesomeness of the video John Romero posted on his blog yesterday. Essentially it's a video from the early Doom days (circa 1993) at id Software. You get a tour of the office and some behind the scenes interviews with some of the major players from Id at the time. There's some fabulously ancient talk about memory usage as well as some bad-ass MIDI tunes. Also... Aladdin on the Genesis is played.

  


Filed under : Doom

78 Comments

andy
on April 6, 2009
I've been enthralled with this video for the last 20 minutes.  Makes me miss the days of booting up Doom for the first time with jaw-dropping amazement.  Few games do this for me anymore =/

SoulEdgeSlayer
on April 6, 2009
Too awesome!  Watching it now.  I love learning about how games were made.

TomA
on April 6, 2009
yay

Double0hFor
on April 6, 2009
this is rad

LordAndrew
on April 6, 2009
I should go play Doom right now.

Coltonio7
on April 6, 2009
Aladdin was an amazing game <3

Driadon
on April 6, 2009
THE MULLETS! OH THE MULLETS!

Ben_H
on April 6, 2009
*Digs out old CD-Rom copy of DOOM*

I hope this still works.  I wanna play through it again.

TripMasterMunky
on April 6, 2009
Ah...the golden days. Back when people didn't care about analyzing games and just played them, regardless of quality.

crono11
on April 6, 2009
Man this is awesome. It's crazy looking back on how games were made back then. Imagine how a video like this would look today.

whospilgrim
on April 6, 2009
Great post man.
Midi is goooood.

Scooper
on April 6, 2009
I can't see a video of Doom anymore and not think of Bill Gates shooting some demon.

GiantGUS
on April 6, 2009
The video is awesome.
I wish someone would post something like that from the MK Team.

dvorak
on April 6, 2009
This is completely awesome.

DOUBLESHOCK
on April 6, 2009
this is amazing.

zityz
on April 6, 2009
that was awesome to watch

EndlessMike
on April 6, 2009
Screw you faggots.

-John Ramero

TooWalrus
on April 6, 2009
Ha, I wish I grew up during an age with technical limitations...

EdWood
on April 6, 2009
Oh man does this take me back to some gaming goodness!

Cloneslayer
on April 6, 2009
welcome to the FUTURE!!!


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