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OG Doom, how I have missed thee ❤️
I recently picked up Doom from the eShop because it was on sale, and I’ve been playing it the past couple of days. I have the various Doom releases on multi-gen Xbox and Playstation consoles, but it was this release for the Switch that got me to play the original Doom once more. I hadn’t touched it since I played it during my college days thirty years ago (with the lights on, of course).
Still fun as I remembered it. Still gets me once in a while with a jump scare 😂 It feels a little weird playing with the Hori split pad pro on the Switch. I think it’s the thumb sticks being so far apart. Maybe I should open the Pro controller still in the box. I heard recently that the Switch now supports keyboard and mouse? I probably won’t go that far to replicate the original controller experience, but it was just a passing thought.
Graphics look good with none of the slow downs like when I played on my Northgate 386/33 and later the Cassiopeia Pocket PC. Sound effects sound right, but the music? Maybe it’s just my memory or I’m confusing the music from later Doom games.
No matter — hail to the King, baby! Oops, wrong game, but this is The One that got us super stoked about graphic card upgrades and defined a whole new genre of games called FPS.
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OMG, I've been playing OG Doom and Doom 2 on my newly constructed retro-gaming laptop. Also Quake and Quake 2. I've still got a whole stack of other CD-ROM games to play.
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Epic gave away I assume the first three Fallout games ever made in one sitting. Just like Doom I'm looking forward to playing the original Fallouts.
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@Atari 5200 Guy the Fallout games have forever been in my backlog 😞 One of these days
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