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Jaguar Doom wasn't the most faithful. It was missing a couple of levels and there was no music when playing the game and a couple of enemies were missing.

PSX for my money.

NickSCFC · PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **NickSCFC** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:29 pm

Surely the PS1 and 360 versions are the closest to the PC.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Ironhide** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:44 pm

I've only played the PC and 32X versions, needless to say which is better.

I've never been a particularly huge fan (of Doom or any other FPS actually) but can see why it's so fondly remembered.

Dat music.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Photek** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:45 pm

Gonna fire up Doom 3 tomorrow night and crap myself to celebrate. :lol:

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Winckle** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 4:51 pm

Winckle wrote:I'm trying to get a co-op Zandronum server set up on grcade.

It's a port of Doom with some modern touches and game modes. Free if you own Doom 2.

Want to make sure people don't miss this! The server is up, download Zandronum at the above link, then once it's installed choose to play online.

Filter servers for GRcade.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **False** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:21 pm

That seems pretty rad.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Buffalo** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:21 pm

I read in a retro magazine once that the 32X was the best conversion.
The 1st game has aged a lot better than Doom 3, oddly enough.

I'd argue the first game hasn't aged at all really. Well maybe the keycard thing is a bit outdated but if this came out as it is now as a faux retro title, people would be raving about it.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **False** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:20 pm

Keycards work fine. Nowadays they'd either split it into 3 different levels or have only one route open per playthrough based on your choices.

Secret zones only available as part of collectors edition or preorder bonus.

True, the levels wouldn't be so maze like.

Doom :wub:

Buffalo wrote:I read in a retro magazine once that the 32X was the best conversion.
The 1st game has aged a lot better than Doom 3, oddly enough.

I've just been messing about with the 32x 'version'. Emulated of course. Last time I played it was almost 20 years ago. Didn't own a 32x but I had a mate who worked in a games shop who let me play it. I was a PC owner at the time and thought it a fair version then. Definitely better than the European release of Doom for the Saturn. And definitely better than the awful SNES version, which was Doom in name and not much else.

Doom

First experience was on a rent-a-pc back in the mid 90's in my Aunt's house. Had it and Prince of Persia. Got it a year or two later on the saturn and have wound up having it on strawberry floating everything.

First game I played over a LAN network at a friend's house, taking a strawberry floating Packard bell tower and 17" CRT monitor round his was a mission, so worth it though, IIRC we had 4 or 5 of us on it, around 96, 97.

GBA version made that all much easier though.

Must admit, really enjoyed co-op on the release last year, the one with doom, doom 2 and doom 3 on it.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Dowbocop** » Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:06 pm

We had this installed on the computers in one of our classrooms at school - lunchtime frags :wub:

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **Mockmaster** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:28 pm

Rik wrote:Own this game on so many formats,

PC
GBA
Sega Saturn
Playstation
N64
Atari Jaguar
Snes
3DO
Megadrive 32X

Jaguar is the most faithful console version as id did it themselves.

Have you played the XBLA version? They do 3-4 player co-op, loads of fun.

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **False** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 12:35 pm

Yeah me an my brother played the entire thing co-op on xbla and it was decent

Rik wrote:Own this game on so many formats,

PC
GBA
Sega Saturn
Playstation
N64
Atari Jaguar
Snes
3DO
Megadrive 32X

Jaguar is the most faithful console version as id did it themselves.

Super nintendo version is barely playable these days, guess it was back then but we didn't know.

Love the opening to the n64 version.

Drunken_Master wrote:definitely better than the awful SNES version, which was Doom in name and not much else.

http://i44.tinypic.com/e8jvyc.png

Considering the platform it was running on, it was an incredible achivement.

As an Amiga owner I was makin' do with Alien Breed 3D and Gloom, with the likes of Doom itself reserved to school PC's

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **jawafour** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 1:00 pm

TheTurnipKing wrote:As an Amiga owner I was makin' do with Alien Breed 3D and Gloom...

Yay! These two titles were terrific! Not as hot as Doom, but decent enough to enjoy.

TheTurnipKing wrote:
Drunken_Master wrote:definitely better than the awful SNES version, which was Doom in name and not much else.

http://i44.tinypic.com/e8jvyc.png

Considering the platform it was running on, it was an incredible achivement.

As an Amiga owner I was makin' do with Alien Breed 3D and Gloom, with the likes of Doom itself reserved to school PC's

Still doesn't excuse the fact it was terrible. Perhaps they shouldn't have bothered?

PostRe: Doom lives (1993 - 2013) by **KeithyT** » Thu Dec 12, 2013 2:29 pm

I've been racking my brains the last day or so trying to remember the other shareware doom clone I had on that 1994 Time PC I bought. Stumbled across it on google.

Blake Stone: Aliens Of Gold - had some good fun with that one too 8-)

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