| Also on: Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Panasonic 3DO, Atari Jaguar, Microsoft Xbox Live Arcade, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft DOS, Sega 32X, Nintendo SNES, Commodore VIC-20, Sony Playstation |
TV commercial from another systemDoom - Atari Jaguar version shown because a Sega Saturn commercial is unavailable. |
| In Doom, players assume the role of an unnamed space marine, who became popularly known as "Doomguy", fighting his way through hordes of invading demons from Hell.[2] With one third of the game, nine levels, distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 15–20 million people[3] within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture. In addition to popularizing the FPS genre, it pioneered immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications via packaged files in a data archive known as "WADs". As a sign of its effect on the industry, first-person shooter games from the genre's boom in the 1990s, helped in no small part by the game's release, became known simply as "Doom clones". Its graphic violence, as well as satanic imagery, made Doom the subject of controversy. |
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