On December 10th, 1993, Id Software released the video game Doom, unleashing a wave of digital monsters on millions of plasma rifle wielding gamers eagerly awaiting this genre-piercing work of action horror. Considered the Godfather of first-person shooters, the game inspired hundreds of imitators in this category over the years, propelled by advances in graphics cards driving sales of the latest PC hardware by enthusiasts seeking to obliterate their opponents in the new multiplayer concept of ‘deathmatches’ more quickly and in full 3D glory. Computing has come a long way since the early days of Doom’s DOS based experience, going so far as to have playable levels automatically generated by artificial intelligence. But the shockwaves left by Doom’s original programmers, particularly John Carmack and John Romero, are still being felt today, and the gaming industry has arguably not seen a design or a set of designers as groundbreaking as what these pioneers created back in the renegade early days of push-it-to-the-limits PC gaming.
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Legal Code of Alfred the Great, Alfred the Great (896) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_book
Blair Witch Project, Myrick and Sanchez (1999)
Masters of Doom, Kushner (2003)
Doom, Bartkowiak (2005)
GTA V is the Most Expensive Video Game Ever Produced, Richter (2013) - https://www.statista.com/chart/1466/most-expensive-video-games-of-all-time/
Activision Buys Major League Gaming, an E-Sports Giant, Muncy (2016) - https://www.wired.com/2016/01/activision-major-league-gaming/
Joe Rogan Experience #1342 - John Carmack, Powerful JRE (2019) -
Doom II: Nuts 100% Kills - 85 Revenants vs 850 Cyberdemons, Zero Master (2021) -
John Carmack: Doom, Quake, VR, AGI, Programming, Video Games, and Rockets, Lex Friedman (2022) -
New AI model can hallucinate a game of 1993’s Doom in real time, Edwards (2024) - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/new-ai-model-can-hallucinate-a-game-of-1993s-doom-in-real-time/
How does Deus EX treat real, current conspiracy theories? - https://www.reddit.com/r/Deusex/comments/wupaql/how_does_deus_ex_treat_real_current_conspiracy/
Red vs. Blue Machinima - https://www.wired.com/2017/04/red-vs-blue-machinima/
Atari video game burial - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial
Video Game Industry Stats - https://www.gamingscan.com/gaming-statistics/
Doom (franchise) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(franchise)
Halo (franchise) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(franchise)
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