A Visit To id Software Circa 1993

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... Aladdinon the Genesis is played.

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 =/

Too awesome!  Watching it now.  I love learning about how games were made.

yay

this is rad

I should go play Doom right now.

Aladdin was an amazing game <3

THE MULLETS! OH THE MULLETS!

*Digs out old CD-Rom copy of DOOM*

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

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

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.

Great post man.

I can't see a video of Doom anymore and not think of Bill Gates shooting some demon.

The video is awesome.
I wish someone would post something like that from the MK Team.

This is completely awesome.

this is amazing.

that was awesome to watch

Screw you faggots.

-John Ramero

Ha, I wish I grew up during an age with technical limitations...

Oh man does this take me back to some gaming goodness!

welcome to the FUTURE!!!

"Ha, I wish I grew up during an age with technical limitations..."

Wow, kinda makes me want to play Doom again...

This is so many different kinds of awesome.

Crazy, brings back memories to my first FPS.

One of the fleeting goals of my life is to find/build a time machine and go back to this period so I can be involved in the process.

Too awesome.

straight country at the ID offices.

"Do you ever shoot some of them and you don't shoot them good enough so they can get back up and come after you?"

Lady's thinking way ahead! How much more awesome would the game had been for that?

I love hearing all the peoples reactions to the stuff going on the screen. It seems so quaint now. Like the guy going WOAAH!! THATS NEAT when he sees the light flickering in the hallways. hahahh! His mind was BLOWN!!!!

24:58: "Aw, chainsaws, unbelievable!"

This is the moment in this video when I realize that games are now incredibly stale, and that our innovations are just going down one linear path.

This is a blast from the past.

This is the PERFECT compliment to the book "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner. I´ve been looking forward to this video since I heard on Romero´s twitter that he was about to upload it. Without a doubt one of the most interesting videos I´ve seen.

i used to love aladin on the mega drive.
i never finished though

wow, i forgot they had a chain saw in doom. if you go to 24:37 you will see it. man those were the good old days of
gaming. no one was really arguing about which system was better, it was all about the games even though
the graphics were not all that incredible.

I was nine when this video was taken. I remember the release of Doom. My older brother was all over it. One of those amazing games that will always have you coming back.

Someone likes The Zombies

Lol man if only they knew what was to come.

Damn that is awesome.  This makes me feel old.

Aladdin was so awesome. Camel hopping should be in every game.

Remember kids, that was all keyboard.  No mouselook.  Cuz you couldn't aim up and down, see.

By the way...the MIDI composing part was amazing.  When they were talking about the Commander Keen intro.  This video rocks.

Watching these guys drool over Doom's Graphics and design blew my mind.

he eh heee~!

wow Doom is older then i thought.  I didn't play it until i got ULTIMATE Doom for christmas in 1998.. a great year.

Daaamn. Hella prototype E1M1.

Oh man. Every level they showed, my brain was going "oh, they changed that! and that! oh wow and that! hey cool! look at that! Hey that switch is different!"

Some would argue that I know Doom's maps too well. I'd say that I know them just the right amount. :)

I just nostalgiaed so hard several of my arteries exploded and my eyes began seeing 8bit.

LOL he is making his own sound effects "BZHIZH! BOOM!" and they are really amazed by tha graphics. I can't even remember being so exited about games...well maybe the HL2 trailer I was all "Oh man look at the physics!" I took the trailer to my friend becuase I had to show him and we looked at and were so amazed. I wonder what will be the next thing after graphics and physics for FPS games...