Post by VectorX on Dec 11, 2013 0:55:06 GMT -5
Good lord, can't believe it's been that long...I feel old now (unlike other related threads we've all seen online, for some reason THIS one makes me feel old indeed!).
games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-20th-birthday-doom-192252201.html
I remember going out to Blockbuster and renting this for my Genny, but wasn't able to get the 32X to work on it. Turns out it wouldn't work with the original model and they didn't have the adapter for it.
So I think like two years later when the 32X was down to $50-60, I got it with Doom, forgot about the above, but then was rudely reminded of it when I ran into the same problem. I went to literally 10 stores to not finding the adapter (still, since for some dumb reason Sega quickly quick making it...not long after that version of Doom first came out!). I gave up and went to one of the earliest stores I tried, being Radio Shack, getting an RF modulator for $30, seeming like a rip-off since that was nearly what I paid for my 32X!
I played the game for nearly a year, due to the replay value of hiking up the difficulty level, as the hardest two levels are totally different games there. Burned up my 32X too, due to long games being left on pause (really stupid not to be able to save a game, along with the 32X having only two cooling vents), but by the time I got another 32X it was down to only like $15, plus I had pretty much played out Doom by then anyway.
games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/happy-20th-birthday-doom-192252201.html
I remember going out to Blockbuster and renting this for my Genny, but wasn't able to get the 32X to work on it. Turns out it wouldn't work with the original model and they didn't have the adapter for it.
So I think like two years later when the 32X was down to $50-60, I got it with Doom, forgot about the above, but then was rudely reminded of it when I ran into the same problem. I went to literally 10 stores to not finding the adapter (still, since for some dumb reason Sega quickly quick making it...not long after that version of Doom first came out!). I gave up and went to one of the earliest stores I tried, being Radio Shack, getting an RF modulator for $30, seeming like a rip-off since that was nearly what I paid for my 32X!
I played the game for nearly a year, due to the replay value of hiking up the difficulty level, as the hardest two levels are totally different games there. Burned up my 32X too, due to long games being left on pause (really stupid not to be able to save a game, along with the 32X having only two cooling vents), but by the time I got another 32X it was down to only like $15, plus I had pretty much played out Doom by then anyway.
My first memory of the game begins in 1993, when my dad and brother went to a software store in Arizona and purchased a shareware copy of the game on two floppy discs. I must have stayed home because I have no recollection of the store whatsoever. Regardless, when they came back from the store, my brother was noticeably excited about something. In that secret, nonverbal lingo that exists only between two siblings, though, I knew he was ramped up about a new game. 
My dad installed Doom on the family PC and taught us how to access it on DOS. Before long, my brother and I were plunging knee-deep in the dead and gunning down zombies and monsters. This was actually my introduction to the first-person shooter genre, and even though I was young, I could tell there was something special about Doom. I was seven years old, and already slaying demons!
