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Many other games have "defined" their genres, but few have done so quite as completely as Doom (1993).
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Many other games have "defined" their genres, but few have done so quite as completely as Doom (1993). And on top of birthing the entire FPS genre, the practice of making Doom run on any electronic device with a screen and a CPU has long been a fantastic exercise in programming and hacking. The possibility of implementing Doom in everything from calculators to pregnancy tests to Captcha in a browser window has kept the game in the public consciousness for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. Of course the real answer is Clash of Clans, because it popularized mobile gaming and skyrocketed that platform's revenue to the point that it outpaces every other gaming platform *combined,* but I'll boycott BAFTA if something riddled with microtransactions gets any recognition
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Many other games have "defined" their genres, but few have done so quite as completely as Doom (1993). And on top of birthing the entire FPS genre, the practice of making Doom run on any electronic device with a screen and a CPU has long been a fantastic exercise in programming and hacking. The possibility of implementing Doom in everything from calculators to pregnancy tests to Captcha in a browser window has kept the game in the public consciousness for decades, and will continue to do so for decades to come. Of course the real answer is Clash of Clans, because it popularized mobile gaming and skyrocketed that platform's revenue to the point that it outpaces every other gaming platform *combined,* but I'll boycott BAFTA if something riddled with microtransactions gets any recognitionCastle Wolfenstein came out the year before how is that not the first?
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Castle Wolfenstein came out the year before how is that not the first?It didn't catch on the way Doom did. Maybe it had something to do with the ceiling not having a texture in Wolf3D.
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Castle Wolfenstein came out the year before how is that not the first?If we want to talk about *first,* then Maze War takes the trophy. Wolfenstein 3D may have come before Doom, but it lacked the influence and staying power. Wolf may have been first, but Doom birthed the genre as we know it
