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One of the first PC shoot-em-ups I remember playing was DOOM<\/em>. If I recall, the first episode in the DOOM<\/em> series was available free online. I downloaded it over my “high-speed” dialup modem and played. It was so cool . . . back in the mid-1990s. Like all good video games, DOOM<\/em> was easy to learn and addicting to play. Dying didn’t discourage you from starting over and trying again.<\/p>\n I ended up purchasing DOOM<\/em>, later called DOOM I<\/em>. Then I ordered DOOM II<\/em> when it came out. My video game habit is to play as a distraction, usually for 10 minutes or so, and then get back to work. Occasionally I find a game that enraptures me and I play longer, but that’s getting rare these days.<\/p>\n Out of nostalgia, I recently purchased (during the Steam sale, which is evil, by the way) the Ultimate DOOM<\/em> package. For $2.99 I bought the original DOOM<\/em> and DOOM II<\/em>. These versions are compatible with modern PCs, so I loaded them up and for the first time since about 1998, played the games again.<\/p>\n DOOM<\/em> plays well under Windows 10, but the graphics are really gross! And, of course, it’s not really 3D but 2-and-a-half-D. The gameplay is awkward and stilted compared with a modern shoot-em-up. Still, I enjoyed the trivia of playing the game and returning to familiar places in the digital realm. Yet, the nostalgia wore off after a while and I got bored.<\/p>\n I don’t plan on abandoning DOOM<\/em>. I’ll probably go back and play it for a while whenever I’m bored. If anything, something in the game reminds me of when I first played it over 20 years ago. To me, it’s nostalgia — like going back to Disneyland and remembering the last time I was there and who I was with and what fun I had. Of course, the characters at Disneyland don’t shoot you with plasma rifles, but I’m okay with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s been a long time and, boy, it’s pretty much still the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8413\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI probably played the entire DOOM<\/em> preview the day I downloaded it. Unlike other games, DOOM<\/em> was almost 3D on the screen. And it was scary! Monsters would pop up randomly, growl at you, shoot things at you, and you’d have to dodge and fight.<\/p>\n