[1/3] I've been playing a lot of #DOOM (1993) on my #SteamDeck lately, which has had me reminiscing about my early days with the game. Aside from an incident where some friends installed Doom Shareware and Doom 2 on the school PCs in the mid-90s, which led to a network-wide virus outbreak (oops!), my main experience of the game was on the #SNES.
I never owned it myself, but borrowed it from a friend for a long time and played it every second I could, homework allowing.
[2/3] Looking back, it was pretty terrible! It had an awful frame-rate, a lower resolution and the ceilings and floors were barely textured, but it. was. amazing! Considering the hardware it had to work with, it was a technical marvel in the same way as Resident Evil 2 on the N64 was IMO.
I mostly stuck to playing Episode 1 as the other episodes were too difficult. But I remember trying to feebly shoot up Cacodemons with a mini-gun in one of the latter episodes and failing miserably!
[3/3] One thing I think the SNES version did better than the PC was the soundtrack. The music was re-arranged for the SNES rather than using the original MIDI tracks and was all the better for it.
Later on that year (1997) I got a Nintendo 64 with GoldeneEye 007, which surpassed DOOM SNES in every way, but I'm still thankful for that SNES game for giving me my first ever first-person shooter crash course!
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