Doom
id Software's 1993 first-person shooter — the game that founded the FPS genre, normalized the PC as a gaming platform, and became the universal benchmark for 'does it run on X?'
Origine
Created by John Carmack, John Romero, and a small team at id Software, released in December 1993 via shareware. Doom let players play through nine levels free, hooking them on the loop of rooms, demons, shotguns, and the BFG ('Big F'ing Gun'). The full game shipped over 10 million copies and probably more in pirated form. The technical breakthroughs — fast pseudo-3D rendering, deathmatch multiplayer over local networks — wired the template for every shooter since. The game's source code was released in 1997, which is why Doom has been ported to almost every device with a CPU: graphing calculators, ATM machines, smart fridges, pregnancy tests, treadmills, even (briefly) a digital pregnancy test that displayed nothing else.
Folosire modernă
'It runs Doom' is a recurring online meme — proof of computational generality on absurd hardware. 'Doomguy' (the helmeted, silent protagonist) and the BFG are part of FPS visual vocabulary. The 2016 reboot ('Doom (2016)') successfully revived the franchise; its soundtrack by Mick Gordon became gym-music canon. The phrase 'going full Doom' loosely describes any maximally aggressive, fast-paced approach.
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