I moved to Dallas in 94. I went to my first real computer store in Plano. It had a dozen computers set up running Doom. Dallas also had these arcades where you sat in this isolated pod and raced other people in these scifi racing games. Dallas was so crazily ahead of its time then, I still look back at it in awe
Doom didn't get the flak until 1999 with Columbine. Most of the attention, at the time, was on the console and arcade market, because consoles were seen as "children's toys."
@@TriarchVisgroup That makes a lot of sense. When I grew up in the early 2000s, even PS2 and Xbox were seen as having too many "mature" games by my parents - so I got a GameCube lol. No complaints.
I miss the shareware days. We have better games now, of course, but somehow it was more exciting back then. Gaming was progressing so rapidly, you never knew what was coming next.
@Michael Persico No I don't think its that really. That probably plays some role because he was always the biggest tech development nerd at ID but he could certainly be bothered to do other things, like turbocharge a Ferrari and then give it away for free for a Quake tournament.
we live in shareware, but it is now evolved and named f2p. its a basic evolution of the business model. the other basic evolution is Demos, they have been around for ages and still are with us today.
I think Apogee started the whole Shareware thing but iD came out with selling the engine sdk component behind their games. I think at the time a few games bought out the wolf3d engine and made it into their own game. But it wasn't until Quake/Quake2 that it really took off. Quake2 engine powered into the whole Half-Life and various other games at the time and really brought iD a great fortune. Not sure about today's game world as I've been out of it for some time but looks like Unreal engine is the way to go.
@@cheappyv5156 Actually, yeah you're right. This also seems more that they had long hours because of a passion for the game, instead of being forced by your employer..
@@cheappyv5156 Back in Softdisk they also pull out those all-nighters. I believe it's more about the love of what one does so you just don't care about time spent. One golden rule to tell if one loves what he does is the amount of time he is willing to invest out of the usual eight hour.
If I could do anything, I’d put a gameplay of Doom 2016/Eternal to a VHS tape, time travel back to 1992/93, inquire a visit to a new company known as ID Software, then showcase the tape to the devs. *”...This, as you can see, will be the future of video games 28 years from now.”*
@@vladimirrodionov5391 Yes, his level design elevated the games (Even though i dont think he was the best level design on ID), but it's the game as a whole, his level design is nothing without carmark engine and others code to gameplay, hall ideas for enemies.
