Anyone here play either Doom or Wolfenstein 3D when they first came out?

trentchau said:
Played a shit ton of doom. My first personal pc when I was 13 was a 486dx4 100 that I spent the $2700 of my own money on back then. Worth every penny.

Wolfe Stein I played but I actually played dooms secret wolf left of Wolfe Stein more :)
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lol, auto correct fun on Wolfenstein?
 
Dan_D said:
No, it was the late 1990's or early 2000's when WASD became the standard control mapping. Back in the DOOM days we used the mouse and the arrow keys. Some people remapped them of course, but that was the default.
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I used a Gravis Gamepad for Doom. Control pad for Fwd/Back L/R, Red+Green for Strafe, Yellow Fire, Green Action if I remember correctly.

Anyone remember poor ole Blake Stone? Thought that game was going to be hot shit.

Until Doom came out the week later. :'(

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I also used a Gravis gamepad back in those days. I didn't even map strafe commands - I just did without since I wasn't used to having them. I don't think I actually strafed with gamepads until the dual-analog models came out. If a game needed that functionality, I'd just keep the pad in my left hand and use a mouse with my right. I played Quake 2 and 3 that way.
 
I played both back in the day on my 486 DX/2 50Mhz. Wolf 3d was pretty fun but when Doom came out it was leaps and bounds more fun. I'll never forget the first time I played multiplayer over dial-up in the shareware version. It took forever to get the modem working correctly on both ends but once we got it setup I played with a guy from my dad's work until 5am until we beat episode 1 and he had to get ready for work.

Then playing Doom 2 on a local BBS with dwango5.wad for hours on end. I really hope the new Doom has the fast paced deathmatch of the original 2 Doom games. Doom 3 was such a huge step backwards and slow compared to the 2 original ones.
Doom 2 co-op is still my favorite co-op game of all time. All the extra monsters and fighting the Cyber Demon in smaller levels was so intense.
 
Habibus said:
I played both back in the day on my 486 DX/2 50Mhz. Wolf 3d was pretty fun but when Doom came out it was leaps and bounds more fun. I'll never forget the first time I played multiplayer over dial-up in the shareware version. It took forever to get the modem working correctly on both ends but once we got it setup I played with a guy from my dad's work until 5am until we beat episode 1 and he had to get ready for work.

Then playing Doom 2 on a local BBS with dwango5.wad for hours on end. I really hope the new Doom has the fast paced deathmatch of the original 2 Doom games. Doom 3 was such a huge step backwards and slow compared to the 2 original ones.
Doom 2 co-op is still my favorite co-op game of all time. All the extra monsters and fighting the Cyber Demon in smaller levels was so intense.
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I have to say that I completely disagree with your Doom 3 assessment.

That aside: Multiplayer on the first two was great though! My brother and I would hook a couple of PCs up with a serial cable and play. Later on I got a hold of some coax NICs and we could do proper matches. As long as nobody on the ends forgot to terminate. :p Sometimes I forget about things like that. (and the IPX protocol) hehehe
 
Played the original Wolfenstein on an Apple II C in the early 80's
 
Played Doom and Doom 2 alot on a 386 and then a 486. It was so long ago that I actually played at first using just a keyboard. Using a mouse for the first time was a revelation.

Also was #1 very briefly on the CompuServe Doom ladder. Back then matchmaking consisted of calling someone to confirm gametime then rushing to move phone cord to the modem before they dialed you. Haha. I remember when some DOS based matchmaking program came out that was my first experience with realtime matchmaking "lobbies" and I had my first 4 player matches. Good times.

And I designed a few maps and wads with some updated sounds. I can still find them on Google. Memories!
 
pigwalk said:
I used a Gravis Gamepad for Doom. Control pad for Fwd/Back L/R, Red+Green for Strafe, Yellow Fire, Green Action if I remember correctly.

Anyone remember poor ole Blake Stone? Thought that game was going to be hot shit.

Until Doom came out the week later. :'(

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I remember Blake Stone, had a shareware floppy of the game. I don't remember much about it (which probably speaks of its gameplay), but I think I blew up turrets on a space station.

I also had a Gravis Gamepad, however it was mostly so my grandpa would be able to play Wolf3D comfortably. Wolf3d was one of the only videogames he'd have the patience to play. I think he just really hated Nazis.

As for my control setup for DooM - arrow keys for movement/aim, left mouse to fire, right mouse to use (I think) and holding down shift with an arrow key was strafe. 'Ctrl' might have been run. It's been too long to remember for sure.

I had used the arrow keys combined with the numpad for movement well into Starsiege: Tribes until I finally adjusted myself to a WASD scheme.
 
I played Wolfenstein 3D shortly after it came out on a family friend's PC. It was my first exposure to the FPS genre and I was instantly hooked. Doom was the first FPS game I played on my own PC tho.
 
SeymourGore said:
I remember Blake Stone, had a shareware floppy of the game. I don't remember much about it (which probably speaks of its gameplay), but I think I blew up turrets on a space station.

I also had a Gravis Gamepad, however it was mostly so my grandpa would be able to play Wolf3D comfortably. Wolf3d was one of the only videogames he'd have the patience to play. I think he just really hated Nazis.

As for my control setup for DooM - arrow keys for movement/aim, left mouse to fire, right mouse to use (I think) and holding down shift with an arrow key was strafe. 'Ctrl' might have been run. It's been too long to remember for sure.

I had used the arrow keys combined with the numpad for movement well into Starsiege: Tribes until I finally adjusted myself to a WASD scheme.
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Blake stone and Corridor 7... I loved those games.
 
Habibus said:
Then playing Doom 2 on a local BBS with dwango5.wad for hours on end.
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Definitely my #1 Doom II wad of ALL TIME!

I easily spent hundreds of hours just on Map 1 over Dwango (the service) way back when....
 
illram said:
I remember when some DOS based matchmaking program came out that was my first experience with realtime matchmaking "lobbies" and I had my first 4 player matches. Good times.
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That sir, was DWANGO :D

Pity Kali totally killed it.... (Back when not all of us had real internet etc.)
 
I played both when they came out, along with Hexen and Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D... all that crap. Had to play them at friend's houses though; my parents had a Mac LCII they held on to for years, and no PC (though we got one a couple years later). The LCII was so slow it would barely run Pathways Into Darkness, and wouldn't run Marathon at all.

When Quake came out I had to play it in a tiny window in software rendering mode on my dad's government issued laptop, since our home PC couldn't handle it at the time. The thing I remember the most though is when the game crashed, having changed the autoexe.bat to run it instead of Windows (not enough RAM otherwise on that machine) and it got stuck in a loop -- shut the machine off, turn it on, up comes Quake. Dad freaked and had to call in a favor with a friend of his in IT (I wasn't knowledgeable enough to fix it at the time). Needless to say I was never allowed to touch that particular laptop again and the "no games on my computer" rule stood for many years after.
 
silent-circuit said:
The thing I remember the most though is when the game crashed, having changed the autoexe.bat to run it instead of Windows (not enough RAM otherwise on that machine) and it got stuck in a loop -- shut the machine off, turn it on, up comes Quake. Dad freaked and had to call in a favor with a friend of his in IT (I wasn't knowledgeable enough to fix it at the time). Needless to say I was never allowed to touch that particular laptop again and the "no games on my computer" rule stood for many years after.
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BAHAHAHA

Nioce.
 
I also still remember downloading the demo for Quake 3 on the "Graphite" iMac G3 they got to replace the LCII... via dialup. At that point I think it was the biggest single file I'd ever tried to get (~57MB), and my ISP kept dropping the connection. Took like 3 days over who knows how many attempts, since the download manager I was using never seemed to be able to pick up where it left off and the server I was getting it from was getting hammered so bad.
 
I played Wolfenstein 3D on the Win 3.1 IBM PCs (386 maybe?) in the school computer lab. It was pretty awesome at the time.
 
I did .. Wolfenstein, on a Macintosh Quadra 610 via floppy disks purchased at Costco. 22 years ago or so.

God I'm old ....
 
schizrade said:
Of course... :D
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We had a few 386es, and a *gasp* 486 in my Tech Ed / Drafting class that we played Wolfenstein on between classes. (and by "between" I mean skipping PE and hanging out in the TE/Drafting class :D ) When it came out, I had a 286 16MHz at home followed closely by a 386DX40 and then 486DX50. We played Doom and Mortal Kombat 2 quite a bit in a couple of classes on the educational license as well a little later on.
 
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