I got my father to borrow a 20 pound, 3" thick laptop from work for me to play this on, because our old 386 didn't have enough RAM to load it.

Did you try minimizing the screen until it was about the size of a termite? That's what I did

I think I played Doom TWO on our 386, albeit at like 5 frames per second.

I made sure our 386 had *six* megs of ram, just so it would have a chance at running Doom.

I had it for the Sega 32x, which managed *maybe* 16 fps.

And because they had to fit it all on a cartridge, they ditched all of the extra camera angles on the enemy sprites, so the enemies were always facing you.

I still played the shit out of it.

I'm sorry you had to play Doom on a Sega. Is that like playing World of Warcraft on an iPad or DDR on your cell phone?

I think George Wood is playing.

If it were on nightmare he'd have been dead super quick. He just kind of sucks at Doom.

Pretty much shit my pants the first time I fired the Doom 2 double barrel shotgun.

it does pack a good punch

it was the only weapon they added
it was the only weapon that needed to be added

Um, it ran in real mode so it only used the bottom 640k and a 64k page buffer.

love you repo

I distinctly remember the system requirements being listed as 4 megs of RAM.

I remember, because my dad and I were thinking about going halfsies on an extra two megs for our 386dx 20, which only had two in it.

I never tried to run it to see if it would go with just the two megs. Maybe it would have.

I ended up just playing it on my friend's Pentium 60.

Repo - the infallible Wikipedia backs my admittedly spotty adolescent memories up on the system requirements. I'm pretty sure all that shit in the WAD file had to go somewhere every time a new level loaded up. Even at 4mb of RAM, the game chugged a bit, but eventually we upgraded to 8mb of RAM, and it was like a whole new machine.

Stevie Case was at Ion Storm, not id.

Romero decided to be a rock star instead of a game developer, and the upside-down crosses, pentagrams, etc. of Doom and Quake 1 were his influence.

I was at GDC in '95 and skipped out on the late morning session to go have a beer. When the session got out, a bunch of guys came up and asked if they could sit at my table (I was occupying an 8-person place by the pool). They all had T-shirts that read "Doom -- Wrote It" and their nametags were Romero, Carmack, McGee, and so forth. It was a pretty cool lunch.

When I was at EA in Austin (Origin), I visited Ion Storm's offices in Dallas before it all went down, and they were beyond magnificent. Top floor of the coolest skyscraper you ever saw. It had a glass ceiling, and the cubicles had black felt cloth draped over them because we programmers hate the light, and love the darkness.

The book about iD is great. I forget the name.

Masters of Doom?