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In 1993, Dan Linton, owner of a hugely successful BBS called Software Creations, visited Texas and made his way to id Software. This is the footage he recorded one night in November 1993.

Shown are several of id's employees at the time: Jay Wilbur, Shawn Green, John Romero, Dave Taylor, Sandy Petersen and Adrian Carmack. Bobby Prince was visiting to finish the music and create the sound effects.

This video has 21 minutes of me playing DOOM before the sound effects were put in as well as some early deathmatching with Shawn Green.

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  • Awesome :-)
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  • Matt D 1 year ago
    Very cool stuff. Those are some big ass monitors for 1993!
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  • Matt Bovett 1 year ago
    Enjoyable to watch. :) Thanks for making this and posting it. What's that awesome song at the end, John?
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  • Istvan Szabo, Ifj. 1 year ago
    Doom, DOS, CRT monitors. The real golden age of the gaming industry. Thanks for sharing, John.
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  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    The song at the end is called "Doom Suite" by remixer Twilight Terror.
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  • Stephen Hawes 1 year ago
    That...was awesome, thanks for sharing, I remember being blown away by doom :)
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  • Thorsten Fleisch 1 year ago
    this is great. TCM 3D;-)
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  • PixelHorror 1 year ago
    Really awesome stuff. I miss those times, thanks for sharing John.
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  • Lancaster 1 year ago
    Whoa, is that a platinum Apple //e I see in your office? Nice! I didn't think there was much Apple II development going on in '93...
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  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    There was no Apple II dev going on at id but i had my platinum //e in my office, in great working condition.
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  • Gwog 1 year ago
    Awesome. Just, awesome. I miss the days of games that I gave a shit about for more than two weeks.
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  • gotshoo 1 year ago
    I watched the whole thing... wow! Brings back some memories. I saw some glitches that were actually in the game! Thank you for posting this.
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  • GonzaloGM 1 year ago
    Awesome :) The Commander Keen song was great, too :D
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  • doruku 1 year ago
    Let's Party like it's 1993!
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  • Jeremiah Jacobs 1 year ago
    This is why i never finished half my homework in college....

    DOOM was a staple of IT shops everywhere I went in the 90's.
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  • glomag 1 year ago
    this is fantastic!
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  • glomag 1 year ago
    And holy shit, Istvan Szabo commented?
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  • David Knowles 1 year ago
    Absolutely awesome to see.

    It's awesome to see a bunch of guys that developed the game excited about it in the same way I was. I was 13 back in '93, first saw DOOM being played at a local computer show that ran once a month. I bought it there & then, and that probably sealed the next 15 years or so for me. :)

    Total kudos for taking the time to upload this.
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  • Incortum 1 year ago
    WooW!!
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  • Pete 1 year ago
    DOOM is the reason I'm a computer geek.
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  • Mark 1 year ago
    sound blaster...
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  • Harald Lapp 1 year ago
    is this the same "shawn green" who was vocalist of the great doom metal band "last chapter"? i read that the vocalist of this band worked at some video-game developer. nice video btw. :-)
  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    Yes Harald, that's the same Shawn Green! He was working with me at Ion Storm when he was in Last Chapter. You should hear his remake of Children of the Sea.
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  • organised 1 year ago
    Doom was and still is magic! :-) I loved the glitches @ 26:11
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  • Skeeter 1 year ago
    Doom had such an impact on my life. This is so great to watch. I wish I had a wolfenstein t-shirt. Thanks for posting this!
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  • Dominic Hailstone 1 year ago
    Wehey!
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  • Fortyseven 1 year ago
    This is fantastic! Thanks. :D
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  • Simon Johansson 1 year ago
    Man... This video is so great! Lots of Kudos from Sweden John! I still play Doom and Doom II every now and then. Doom is one of the best games I've ever played and has had a big impact on my gaming life.
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  • Das EFX 1 year ago
    Thanks! it was awesome to watch this, that was the "black box" building right? I still play Doom everywhere i can, i even found a Sega 32X version and it was awesome aswell.
  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    Yep, that was the black box, like our NeXTCube. :)
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  • jason whitton 1 year ago
    I remember playing Doom for the first time on a friends 486/66 PC and being floored & amazed at what I was witnessing. It is the main reason I ended up buying a PC shortly after.
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  • Matthew Nawrocki 1 year ago
    Wow! Get a load of those NeXTcube workstations! I wonder how id was able to afford those bad boys? Weren't they like ten grand a piece or something? Heck, even my amazing rig is a fraction of the cost, yet many times more powerful. Its amazing how cheap technology gets.
  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    We poured all our money into awesome dev systems. DOOM and Quake were both developed on NeXTSTEP, not DOS.
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  • Samuel Arroyo 1 year ago
    This video have remembered me that gold ages when all we need to have fun on computers was a few colored pixels drawing monsters and guns. Thank you!
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  • Dave Vileta 1 year ago
    hahaha john romero
    SUCK IT DOWN

    yes yes I was there for that lol
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  • BinaryBoy 1 year ago
    Are you going to post your Ion Storm videos?
  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    Some day....
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  • kiss4luna 1 year ago
    oh, god, is it you, John Romero? oh, god, i'm going home to tell my mum i see John Romero!
  • john romero plus 1 year ago
    Go to Rome.ro for more...
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  • rob edwards 1 year ago
    love it !
    When I play doom its like revisiting a place I used to live in, I spent so many hours on it.
    I read the book masters of doom and this vid brings some of the pages to life for me.
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  • UBX Master 1 year ago
    Quite amazing! I'm glad I can see the full story behind this great game at last! :)
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  • JAdamz 1 year ago
    Great stuff John, thanks for uploading it! Still remember getting my first PC in 1993 (I was 8 at the time) and playing Doom, Myst, The 7th Guest, Need For Speed 1...those were the golden days of PC gaming
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  • hiul 1 year ago
    hey man you forgot prince of percia, lands of lord, dune and much more.

    anyway it brings back a load of good memories.
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  • Thorsten Fleisch 1 year ago
    hey, I wrote a Doom song some time ago. check it out: myspace.com/malendemalende
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  • Wow...so much frakkin history. Annoying my poor hubby with the howls of dying brown nasties. Doom II keeping me sane while I had to deal with web design clients who were constantly changing things and moving the goalposts. You want me to do WHAT with the shopping cart? Eat plasma, Mr. X and your cardboard box site! Heh heh heh good times.

    Thanks for posting this.
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  • David Elsener 1 year ago
    lol yeah schwarzenegger would be proud... they should have made the doom movie with him :)
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  • metus 1 year ago
    you can shoot from the chainsaw! wow!
    great vid
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  • ktx 1 year ago
    awesome vid :)
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  • Noah Shenk 1 year ago
    My dad kept his old computer from the 90s along with all the games he had clamored over as a college kid, including doom. I am only fifteen and Doom has already been a pretty big part of my life, i have a homemade doom t shirt with a picture of the utility bar face on it. I didn't know there were better graphics and sound than doom till i was about 12 when my dad bought a new computer. I am a DOOM CHILD.
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  • Borat 1 year ago
    Very Nice
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  • TeeKay 1 year ago
    This is one of the best videos I've ever watched...
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  • Jason Doucette 1 year ago
    Amazing stuff, Romero. I love looking back at old stuff. It's great to show another good 3D game of the time, with texture mapping and variable lighting via distance, to give an idea of what was good back in 1993. Then seeing Doom shows off just how great Doom was! Man, it just blew me away. I remember the first time I seen it -- someone was showing me the funny difficulty level setting names, and I didn't hear a word he said because I was in awe of the animation going on in the background (the actual gameplay). I'm sure my jaw hit the floor. Just WOW. Amazing technology. And the level design and gameplay makes it probably the best game ever made, so it's great to see you talking about how some of the designs you made while you're playing.
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  • Jaymz 11 months ago
    Does the music for E1M3 sound just like the arpeggios from Pantera's "This Love", or is it me?? O_o Doom's music really did set it further apart from the competition; Mr. Prince did an amazing job!!! :D
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  • Pamqnx 9 months ago
    What is the music played from 6:00 to 7:45 ? Is it from a game ?
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  • Josh Whelchel 8 months ago
    Wow, I'm so flattered to find that you used my (old) remix "Doom's Suite" - Doom changed my life too, as many of the people here have also admitted. I'm honored to be included in this video! I put the full remix here:
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  • Intruder 8 months ago
    Thanks for this awesome vid, I viewed it several times. This remembers me of a couple of NeXTs we had in our institute, and I still enjoy playing Doom on an original NeXT together with my son in a network :-).

    Thanks John!
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