Although the source is almost as frightening: Tom Cruise’s mouth. Where’d they get the name DOOM, anyway? Probably the Necronomicon, right? Like carved into the back? Or maybe one of the devs had a nightmare and woke up with blood shooting out of their eyes and the blood pooled all on its own on the floor and spelled out DOOM? Nope. The game was so popular that despite swirling controversy, Bill Gates reportedly considered buying id and even shot a video with himself as the Doom Marine to try and capitalize on DOOM’s runaway success. At one point, DOOM was even installed on more PCs than Windows 95, the just-released operating system that basically every PC owner owned as a matter of course. How handsomely? In the wake of DOOM’s release many companies, including id Software, had to introduce new policies prohibiting spending your whole workday tearing demon ass when you’re supposed to be writing TPS reports. At the time, both were incredibly bold marketing ploys, and they paid off handsomely. id also offered brick-and-mortar stores free copies of the game in exchange for nothing more than shelf space. Worried about their ability to distribute the game should the censors come after them, the id team actually released the first chapter of DOOM as shareware, with the other two parts available for purchase. MASTER OF PUPPETSĭOOM didn’t just popularize and codify the FPS genre, it was a flashpoint game tied into the effort to censor violence in gaming at the time, which ultimately resulted in the founding of the ESRB and content ratings on games. Those descendents included Billy Blaze, Commander Keen himself, who apparently took a stage name when he donned the football helmet, because his real name is Billy Blazkowicz II. to torment all of his descendents as payback. Blazkowicz of Wolfenstein fame once severed the arm and leg of a demon, who returned (all patched up) in the DOOM storyline as Cyberdemon, after promising B.J.

Various easter eggs across the games strongly imply that B.J. Although since then, a much more interesting canon has also been built between various id games, including Commander Keen, the Wolfenstein Nazi-verse, and the relatively obscure DOOM and Wolfenstein RPG mobile games.

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