Very cool stuff. Those are some big ass monitors for 1993!

Enjoyable to watch. :) Thanks for making this and posting it. What's that awesome song at the end, John?

Doom, DOS, CRT monitors. The real golden age of the gaming industry. Thanks for sharing, John.

The song at the end is called "Doom Suite" by remixer Twilight Terror.

That...was awesome, thanks for sharing, I remember being blown away by doom :)

this is great. TCM 3D;-)

Really awesome stuff. I miss those times, thanks for sharing John.

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...

There was no Apple II dev going on at id but i had my platinum //e in my office, in great working condition.

Awesome. Just, awesome. I miss the days of games that I gave a shit about for more than two weeks.

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.

Awesome :) The Commander Keen song was great, too :D

Let's Party like it's 1993!

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.

this is fantastic!

And holy shit, Istvan Szabo commented?

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.

WooW!!

DOOM is the reason I'm a computer geek.

sound blaster...

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. :-)

Doom was and still is magic! :-) I loved the glitches @ 26:11

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!

Wehey!

This is fantastic! Thanks. :D

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

hahaha john romero
SUCK IT DOWN

yes yes I was there for that lol

Are you going to post your Ion Storm videos?

oh, god, is it you, John Romero? oh, god, i'm going home to tell my mum i see John Romero!

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.

Quite amazing! I'm glad I can see the full story behind this great game at last! :)

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

hey man you forgot prince of percia, lands of lord, dune and much more.

anyway it brings back a load of good memories.

hey, I wrote a Doom song some time ago. check it out: myspace.com/malendemalende

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.

lol yeah schwarzenegger would be proud... they should have made the doom movie with him :)

you can shoot from the chainsaw! wow!
great vid

awesome vid :)

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.

Very Nice

This is one of the best videos I've ever watched...

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.

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

What is the music played from 6:00 to 7:45 ? Is it from a game ?

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:
blog.jwmusic.org/post/283477846/why-is-this-video-important-thirty-one-minutes

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!

Much like the 20s were the Golden Age of Aviation, the 90s are it for games.

Sure there was a lot of development in the early 80s and lone wolf enterprises in the mid 80s, but it was in the 90s with their 5-6 developers team plus producers, etc that the Golden Age of Computer Games came.

There was a lot of non-graphical innovations going on back then.

This video must be the coolest thing on the Internet.

Great to see all the little differences to the final build.

What made me wonder was the lack of proper sound effects, even though the game was almost finished.

You didn't have any, for instance, stock shotgun sounds at your disposal at the time? The sounds add so much to the overall experience, so I wonder why you guys didn't use proper placeholder sounds during the development.