Then came the article and the incident that caused me to become an pro-violent games pro-freedom anti-censorship activist.Īn article was written by a Colorado newspaper which I won’t mention here by name. Blah Blah Blah… I started reading really bad, sensationalist articles on newspapers around that time, all blaming Doom for the crime, saying they were living in a game world, playing out the game in “god mode”, blah, blah, blah…. Claims that the shooters were influenced by it. Doom was blamed for it almost right away. Despite how horrible it was (I am NOT condoning it), what pissed me off is how the media kept on blaming violent games. I have played every single big FPS game for the PC till around 1999. Then came the columbine massacre. First thing’s first, I will say is that I have been a gamer since 1993 when I started playing Simcity, Wolf3d, Doom, the list goes on. It was so popular that Microsoft commissioned a port of the game for Windows 95, with then-CEO Bill Gates even appearing in a video promoting the game and Microsoft's new operating system.Įstimates vary, but the game had sold at least 2 or 3 million copies total by 1999 (massive numbers for the nascent days of PC gaming), and the free first episode has been installed on perhaps 10 times that many machines, if not more.Doom s level of graphic violence made the game highly controversial (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"Doom" soon found its way onto record numbers of computers, and the company was raking in $100,000 per day from $9 shareware purchases - and the free first episode was installed on millions of computers. What awaited players inside that 2-megabyte package would totally eclipse the experience they'd had in other first-person games like "Battlezone" and id's own "Wolfenstein 3D." Those old enough may remember getting the shareware version of "Doom," (subtitled "Knee Deep in the Dead") which ran on DOS, on a stack of floppy disks or downloading it via modem from a local bulletin board system.
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