10 MORE Classic Doom Wads from the 1990s! 

Here's a download link containing all of the wads/mods I played way back when: doomshack.org/~doomkid/90s_wads.zip Here's a giant pack of over 500 good vanilla wads: www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/114671/ Enjoy!

Love the personal touch you put into each of these writeups, and as a new-ish player of custom Doom maps, I appreciate the historical background for each story as well. Makes me wish I was a part of that late 90s early 00s scene, though I guess I would have been too young. Now I have to go back and watch the first 'classic Doom mods from the 90s' video!

"It was like DooM 3!" Honestly this guy totally gets it! I remember being a kid when Doom had just came out and we bought a computer with games and as a freebee we got one of those DooM megapacks with thousands of...well...shitty levels for the most part. After beating Doom till I could play the levels in my sleep I discovered this disc hidden in a pile of floppies. Like him, me and my dad went to figuring it out and WOW was I blown away! It didn't matter if the levels were 1 or 2 star ratings, it was more DooM and that was all that mattered!

I love the Das Boot midi in the background

There's quite a ton of old wads that's been lost in the void of the internet...there's been even some from the mid/late 2000s I liked playing around in that I can't find again.

as time goes on I am finding it more difficult to find people who actually played doom in the 90s. I felt like an outsider in the reddit as everyone seems to have only played doom in recent years or because of the new one. I can agree with you 100% that even though these look primitive now, back then these were a gold mine and that slow black startup screen as we were getting ready to play Doom and as it gets closer to completion it would scroll down all those words and launch the game.. that was heart racing as a child!

I was born too late to play DOOM in the 90s, but the story about your dad helping you install mods reminded me of my dad teaching me how to play Halo 2 as a kid. Good memories.

Wish i could have experienced doom during the 90s myself. Even though i am a 90s kid, i first started playing doom around 2010. I still have lots of fun playing the original doom games every now and then, and will still continue to play them.

Oh look! I'm featured here! Thanks for the mention! (I remember the room at 01:40, I played that)

they’re way before my time but it’s fascinating to see where the community found its footing during a time when the very concept of modding was a novelty, when mapping tools weren’t as robust or accessible and source ports while existing hadn’t taken off as much or the absolute engine limit crushing power of ports nowadays hadn’t been reached

I remember my mind being blown away when playing Doom City for the first time. What a wad!

There’s 2 custom WADS I played for DOS doom when I first discovered it: Crossing Acheron and Doomsday of UAC. The latter holds up remarkably well to this day. It’s been about 5 years since then and they’re both still some of my favorite WADs.

It was so exciting to see this stuff grow back then. It was all so new and exciting. I think it’s really important to go back and take a look at all this, so thanks for providing that.

This video is so good! I could sense your passion for this game through your voice.

I seem to remember an old Aliens wad that was different from the TC, mostly changed all the sound files for the zombies to swearing/screaming marines from the first movie, but also included its own maps that were all action-based, and along with custom textures it was really cool. I distinctly remember a texture replacement being very large rotating fans on the walls. Pretty sure it came from an old demo disc which I'm 99% sure I no longer have. Because they were Australian discs they were definitely wads ripped from the internet and slapped on, but whether or not they still exist, I've no idea. If anyone's played it, please let me know!

i love that you pulled some of the great wads from the 90's in this video to give new generation of doom fans to check out!

The only map I played from this list is Doom City, I gotta play the rest!

nothing more exciting than finding custom maps when you were a kid and played through all your games endless times. dark forces had some pretty good maps back in the day too. this video was a nice nostalgia trip, hope you do more of these!

I love that you broke some of these out into fuller playthroughs. Great stuff!

OMG!!! The Alien TC WAD!!! I had completely forgotten about that one. It was such a good mod

Man, really loving your old school Doom deep dives!

It's kinda nice to see some of these wads. I guess I'm still rather young, in my mid 20s, and most of these wads are probably older than me haha. I did play Doom in my childhood though thanks to my dad. I remember that we played together, him moving Doomguy and I shooting. I was like 5-6 years old though lol. It took me awhile for to actually really play it on my own, but my dad did play some custom wads. Doom City in particular was one that I remember him being excited to show me. I don't think my mom really liked that my dad was showing me how to play Doom though haha, but I do have fond memories even if I played a bit later than others.

this video is pretty entertaining and entertaining. good job!

yooo part 2! thanks man, wicked.

Ahh Doom City... Such a cute map. I wonder if the midi is based on something or it's original. I think its used in community chest 3 too

I've been looking for the song in the first wad you talked about for probably 24 years. Thank you.

So nostalgic to see Bermuda Triangle on the last, this was one of the maps I played as a kid too, I vividly remember the playstation doom shotgun sound making me so happy in that wad. Started out on PSX doom when I was 4 by watching and playing along wjth my mom, always loved those sounds.

RIP Shamus Young.

I didn't even know the store/city map was from the 90's

For me Perdition's Gate is a great 90s WAD. It's a lesser known WAD, even though ironically it was released commercially, as the author himself was looking to sell it commercially, and had a chance to be part of Final Doom (but a deadline was missed or something), the irony being that Evilution was supposed to be free but impressed ID to the point of commercializing it. Even though it's "less of a mod, more of a commercial product", it can be found free today on the authors website, and some maps have a lot of Plutonia-esque DNA in it. It's popular to the point where a fan--made sequel, Perdition's Gate Resurgence, is in the works today since 2017.

I started playing Doom with Project Brutality but I remember the 90s and I would have loved to play any of those wads back then.

Doom city has been my test map for gameplay wads for so long lol

Thank you. Found this list much more interesting and entertaining than the last since it contained less wads I've heard of and some I had but forgotten about (for better or worse). I do not recognise that mystery map, though.

This video makes me feel nostalgic for wads I've never played. One of my favorite doom videos!

Great list! Loving the fact that Doom put you into AiC. The game just keeps giving...

I found a $10 roll of quarters on the ground once, spent it on the Hulk PC game. Lol

I’m a new subscriber and just want to say I’m so happy I discovered your channel.

wow i never knew the history behind my very first wad editor the legendary deepsea thanks mate youre amazing with this kind video really enjoy watching :D

Cool story behind the game. It kind of hit a nostalgic chord with me. Reminded me of the distant years when i saw arcade machines for the first time. At that time i was convinced that a computer virus is a unique kind of cockroach that actually eats microchips 🙃...While curious, i was never impressed with neither Wolfenstein nor Doom afterwards, back then. Not until years have passed, and the latter was introduced to me, heralded by the electric guitars (and absent weird graphics) on the 3DO. It was the musical talent, backed by distortion and power-chords that washed away the shit from John Carmack's glass globe. It did for me. I never looked back after Quake I & II.

Yessss! A million times yes to content like this

Very good video!

Makes me wonder how it took so long to find eternal_dm ... that one was regularly played on zdaemon in the early 2000s. Since I seemingly got on the internet a bit later, here are some early picks of mine which are less vanilla and some even requiring source ports: Wolfendoom: Operation Arctic Wolf (which was the current Wolfendoom at that time), Securitron, tft.wad (for a surprise) and one mod I still consider amazing to this day: ZanZan TC. In the mid to late 90s I have to admit "Doom3: Mr Smiley Head's Safari" was the only custom doom stuff me and my peers had access to.

I'll definitely have to check out some of these.

Man, I could watch and hour of this kind of videos. Also, that lost DM WAD story is fascinating! I'm still interested in a video about ''lost WADs'' my man :P

If Id like to add a personal experience with old school doom mods even though I'm not a 90s kid, I absolutely adore a Doctor Who mod someone has made for Doom 2, it's just such a blast seeing monsters from the show such as the Daleks replacing the imps, I guess it's why I flock to a lot more vanilla compatible mods then Zdoom decorate mods even though I love them just as much. The stuff people do with Dehacked still surprises me and put a big fat smile on my face

Doom City is what reignited my urge to play Doom wads again back in 2018 I believe. Took a huge break from the burn out I had with Doom before that. Loved the combat pace in it & the atmosphere.

Good video! I never played these WADs, but Area 51 looked to be especially cool with the monster/machine parts lying around. I haven't seen something like that before. Good stuff!

lol I like how that "What Is Love?" MIDI kind of prefigures the style of Jimmy Paddock and Stuart Rynn.

I just finished the Area 51 wad and had a blast, was a lot tougher than I expected to be honest. Thanks for shedding light on these old wads, they may not have won the cacowards but they sure have a lot of charm and are fun to this day. Also imagine playing Nuts as a kid and expecting 31 more maps of that calibre of madness!

Man, what a nostalgia trip. I know I never played these wads back in the day. The only custom wads I had was my dad buying both volumes of D!Zone and me trying to play through 32 maps of those at a time, usually with cheats since about half the levels had you starting off with a cyberdemon or spider mastermind in your face. It's still cool to go back to actually good old wads though.

Area 51

great video, and a great nostalgia trip for me even if I didn't use to play these as a kids - unfortunately, I lost my boxed copy of doom 2 that had extra maps in it that I used to play, and with only extremely vague memories of them, I'm unlikely to find them again. But it's a testament to the greatness of this game's modding scene that even early wads like these have such fascinating histories behind them and, quite often actually, solid gameplay to back it up.

I still have some cover CD-ROMs from computer magazines from 1994-1996 that feature a bunch of custom maps. It was pretty much a thing to include them alongside demos of whatever new games were showcased on the disc. I should get off my backside, download a source port or two, and revisit them, as well as check out what's going about now. This was a great video, it's cool to go back and see what people were making back then

i just replay eternal doom last week,my god...hours and hours looking for switch,but when you finish the game...i can say i enjoy it :)

Area 51 introduced me to "custom monsters" and from there I went on a frenzy looking for any wad text file that said "Includes New graphics: Yes" and praying there were more to discover. Often ended up disappointed :P Oh how times change...

My personal childhood mystery i figured out on accident was when i needed was searching for a hard drive just this morning and when i found this old one laying around i found tons and tons of childhood pictures of my childhood me playing runescape on my childhood pc.

7:51 thanks for reminding me that i gotta listen to this album again some time soon

That Doom City music. Wow it's so good. And that city joke...nice

Just commenting to say that Doom has the greatest playerbase and community in the world and has been for nearly 3 decades 😊

Was a wad on D!Zone that I couldn't remember the name of. Found it in the early 2000s, was called like EONS or something very similar. Wasn't as good as I remembered lol and the modern community probably considers it trash. The Doom community was fun in the late 1990s.

Man, I remember downloading some of these when I was in primary school! Really loved Bermuda.wad

Sometimes I think to myself how the boys at id Software would have come up with their own version of Man In The Box instead of leaving out as an unused sample. I've got to listen to the song a few days ago for the first time and I have to say, they have some good taste in music.

Even though I was playing Doom when I was single-digits in the 90's, the only custom WAD I ever played back then was my dad's unfinished level from '96 (that I recently replayed for the first time since then!). I didn't really get into stuff like this until 2004-2005ish when ZDoom was already a thing, so it's always interesting to see those early WADs! Honestly, a lot of them looked pretty solid here!

song at around 3 minute mark is from the mod Doom 32. Mod for doom 2. believe also released in the 90s. anyway nice video i didnt know about those mods. Even though i have 70+ GB of doom mods on my pc lol

Oh boi i cant wait!!!!

I loved checking these out twenty years ago.... the only one I could never get working was WOT3 (Wheel of Time Doom). I'm pretty sure the aliens one was glitchy too. but many great ones. batman, ghostbusters, zombies tc, wolfendoom, star wars, western doom, army doom, xmas doom, etc.

Doom is probably the only game where we actually see its technology advance: from the rough '94 hallway wads from entire new games that quite differ from core Doom. It's like having new games inside another game, a whole family that will never stop amazing me, personally

Not a particularly "old" mod but I remember getting blown away by Action Doom 2. To this day, I think it's one of my favorite doom mods of all time.

I cannot believe I missed this video

I hope you cover the Dalek War mod when you’re gonna do another set of classic Doom mods.

Well, it makes sense that the deathmatch wads have one or two entryway clones, the layout is perfect for deathmatch.

I played both Doom City and Area 51 not that long ago! Still so much to play and so little time. Gonna be Dooming until the day I die, fam. ;^)

Holy crap i did not expect this...

Thanks for the sub dude ;) You got one right back my fellow Doomer.

that song that starts around 1:14 is from the mod Mr Smiley head safari Doom 3. thats the official name of the mod. released also in the 90s. very enjoyable mod.

Number one takeaway: Doomkid really needs to play “Aliens TC”

I remember a lot of I used to play that all the time when I was growing up. But there's one I remember called park wad. It was pretty cool. It was the doom guy goes to the park and hell breaks out. And have the most custom midi file for the music.

Doomcity.wad, my beloved. Glad seeing it mentioned.

Those old school wads look pretty cool, I've recently been playing the Deathless wad and would recommend it for anyone.

Now I gotta try these out on GZDoom and see what I missed from the 1990's..

Nice video

i might need to start taking notes for THFS im sure it will help me get better at making those maps

i might try some of these wads for myself

when you said Memento Mori I immediately thought Unus Annus damn that's a new-ass reference for a video about 90s DooM mods

I remember some of these. Vintage WADs are great little time capsules to the community at the time and the (by today's standards) crude tools they had at their disposal.

The D!Zone 2 CD was my memorable mid to late teenage year custom Doom maps for a little bit before I found Doomworld and CDROM.COM (now /idgames/ for those who don't know.). SINCITY5 (or something like that) was something a bit memorable due to the castle-y first level. At the time, I did not have Ultimate Doom (just shareware) so I used something that replaced its textures so Doom1 custom maps ran in Doom 2.

Thanks for your little goldmine of wads! I really enjoy simple maps like these, because they have something to offer and inspire me at mapping. Really liked the first roll of maps (most of them, that is) and it seems these will be a treat, too. I just have one question: what's the midi playing at the end of the video? It's sounds like it derives from a song I know but I can't put my finger on it. Really like it

oh man i my child mind would have imploded if i knew their was more doom on the pc i only had the atari jaguar Doom then PSX Doom. you were lucky

These maps have such a Geocities aesthetic.

Sick!

I remember playing Doom City and Area 51 back in the day. I remember when there was a hall of fame induction on Doomgate I believe the site was I might be mistaken as that was years ago. Anyway they would induct Doom wads into the hall of fame I can't remember if Area 51 was one of the nominees but I do remember that Doom City was

Great video, thanks for Doom City) You're playing through Chocolate Doom?

Hey that was cool man. c:

One old 90s wad I remember actually playing back in the day was for Doom 2 and it used graphics and textures from Aliens TC. It was basically an Aliens themed wad for Doom 2, but without any of the levels from the original TC. It also used music from Heretic for some reason. I don't remember what that wad was called and I have not been able to find it since.

Loving all of the Alice In Chains love in this video. One of my favorite bands of all time. A pivitol ome for my teenage years as well. Oh yeah Great wads, too hahahhaa

I want Doom City get continued by 10 or a few more maps.

I'll be checking Doom City and Area 51 out, those look pretty neat!

thanks, great vid. There was one I played back in the day which is memorable, I think it was simply titled 'space.wad' or similar, it had some custom textures & was based in a space station, was deliberately extra claustrophobic. It had a unique look & feel & well built. Nice one player but not so good over serial link. Pretty sure was on the pc-zone magazine cover cd 1994?

I'm curious, do any of these WADs (and the ones from the previous video, as well) work with Crispy Doom (or any source port), or do they only work with Vanilla Doom?

D_RUNNIN.mus moment