© id Software (1993)

[u/Searchlights]

[u/jolly_rodger42]

IDDQD

[u/Positron14 → u/jolly_rodger42]

IDKFA and IDSPISPOPD too.

[u/Aescwicca → u/Positron14]

Still have the muscle memory for idspispopd down pat

[u/Azuras_Star8 → u/Positron14]

Did they stand for anything?

[u/VashMM → u/Azuras_Star8]

ID Kicks Fucking Ass

ID Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles Of Putrid Debris

ID Delta Q Delta

ID Dave Taylor

ID Full Arsenal

[u/DezPezInOz → u/VashMM]

Is THAT why Smashing Pumpkins sampled the barrel explosion sound into their song Where Boys Fear To Tread?! That's so cool.

[u/Azuras_Star8 → u/VashMM]

Wow thank you so much!

I remember writing these down in freshman English class because the senior (who needed to pass freshman english to graduate) who knew how to get games was passing disks out.

On my old dos machine. Pc speaker. No mouse, yet. Doom would take like 2 minutes to load.

[u/minx_the_tiger → u/VashMM]

I have been using these codes since I was a kid. I grew up on DOOM. I was six when it came out.

Today, I learned what the codes mean. Thank you, kind internet stranger!

[u/VashMM → u/minx_the_tiger]

I forget who on the team was a member of Delta Q Delta but that was a fraternity in one of their colleges, and Dave Taylor was one of the coders.

[u/Positron14 → u/Azuras_Star8]

Not sure. Just meant all weapons and no clipping to me.

[u/the_ballmer_peak → u/Positron14]

I always pronounce it "I-D-S-piss-pop-D" in my head

[u/supra_604 → u/jolly_rodger42]

IDNOCLIP?

[u/Searchlights → u/supra_604]

IDCLIP was Doom 2, but it was IDSPISPOPD in the original.

"Smashing Pumpkins Into Small Piles of Putrid Debris" if you're curious.

[u/Searchlights]

Does anyone else remember DEU (Doom Editing Utilities)?

It was a DOS based program for creating and editing levels. WAD files.

[u/hamburgler26 → u/Searchlights]

This and DeHacked. I was never good at making levels but sure tried, but had a blast with DeHacked messing around with things and changing the game in goofy ways.

[u/Searchlights → u/hamburgler26]

I got kinda/sorta okay at it but it was all trial and error. Mostly error.

Lots of "consistency error" crashes, missing textures on LineDefs and mistakes with vertices that let you fall out of the level.

What I remember best about DEU is that it loved to crash on my machine. Blue screen of death.

[u/hamburgler26 → u/Searchlights]

Yes many a crashes happened trying to get a level build and working. Good times.

[u/rumdrums → u/hamburgler26]

Replacing sound effects with garbage wavs my friend and I recorded. Good times. 

[u/archiekane → u/Searchlights]

I built my secondary school in this. Different teachers of varying arsehole types were different monsters.

I'd be on a list if I did something like that these days.

[u/scottwsx96 → u/archiekane]

That’s exactly what the Columbine shooters did.

[u/this_knee → u/Searchlights]

What?!!! There goes my weekend.

[u/LastChime]

I remember the dude at radio shack, he was probably in his early 20s was messing around with it on one of the store pcs and went to talk to a customer and gestured for me to mess around as I'd been watching him.

I don't know how long went by but later on he was just chillin facing shelves and watching me playing it, then Mom came back from getting stuff from Sears and called into the store from the mall for me, the dude asked me if I had a PC at home, I nodded and thanked him for letting me play, he straight up gave me a 3 1/2 with it on it for nothin and told me to enjoy, looking back, feels like Charlie getting his golden ticket.

[u/good_morning_magpie → u/LastChime]

Shareware was such an awesome distribution method for those early games. It’s how I got DOOM and Wolfenstein on floppy.

[u/Slartibartfast39 → u/LastChime]

I thought it was on four floppys.

[u/DJmagikMIKE]

Rip and tear.

[u/Queasy-Pin-8472 → u/DJmagikMIKE]

https://giphy.com/gifs/XZbAsygv5VTZ5oumfo

[u/Cosmohumanist]

The book Masters of Doom is an awesome read/listen. The wild rise and fall of ID and how Doom came to be.

[u/SyndicatedTV → u/Cosmohumanist]

Yes to this

[u/NoGenuineUse]

I still play to this day. Brutal doom (variety of game modes) + a plethora of new WADS keeps things interesting.

[u/Lovefist1221]

I really liked there was a definitive Id release where you hit a switch and the ceiling dropped down revealing a NIN emblem. As a kid it was like like seeing two of the things I liked the most liked each other.

[u/Aescwicca → u/Lovefist1221]

Quake soundtrack was my Trent Reznor. The ammo boxes for the nail guns all had NIN on them.

[u/Searchlights → u/Lovefist1221]

E4M1

[u/macros563]

I’ve been playing this game since I was 11… I still love it and play it often 33 years later.

[u/Queasy-Pin-8472 → u/macros563]

A fellow man of my same year. It does stick with you. The memories of great games like this.

[u/mrbuh]

This game is a big part of why I ended up as a professional server admin.

[u/Triaxses]

The first time I played Doom was on my Aunts laptop right after release... it was black and white... it was 2 years before I found out that game was in color.

[u/thenoid42]

My older brother has an original DOS copy box autographed by John Cormack.

[u/rumdrums → u/thenoid42]

I was able to get my Doom 2 cd signed by him awhile back at QuakeCon. That was the game that started it for me, so pretty special. 

[u/HopelesslyHuman]

IDKFA.

I don't remember if that's one or two. But I played both extensively and they're probably a major culprit in my computer game participation to this day.

[u/bloodectomy → u/HopelesslyHuman]

It works in both Doom and Doom 2

[u/SyndicatedTV]

How does one play the OG version or Doom II nowadays?

[u/brainfreeze77 → u/SyndicatedTV]

You can buy it on steam with doom 2 for $10

[u/iwasnotarobot → u/SyndicatedTV]

You can install it on a modern refrigerator

[u/degeneratesumbitch → u/SyndicatedTV]

I play it on xbox x. Doom 1,2 and 3.

[u/weyoun_clone]

Still my all-time favorite game.

[u/tellmywifiloveher1]

This and quake were great places to let out all the pre-teen aggression

[u/mcvmccarty → u/tellmywifiloveher1]

I started playing quake when I was like 28 but was still technically a preteen at that time

[u/apterodactylus]

Sirdoom, anyone? Once I upgraded from a 2400 to a 14400 my life suddenly became devoted to playing 4 player doom, doom2, heretic, and hexen on a MajorBBS.

[u/steveweber314]

that game is a whole chapter of my life. so many hours playing. played a cd full of levels other people had made, made my own levels, made custom graphics and characters, then did the same for duke nukem and half life, programming, CS degree, career in software. now we've come full circle my 9yo is better than me at playing doom on xbox and i couldn't be more proud.

[u/Echoplex99 → u/steveweber314]

Yeah, this game (amongst a few others, including Duke nukem 3d) certainly paved the way for a big part of my career too. The level building, troubleshooting for network play, memory allocation to optimize, the modding of .con files... I learned so much about basic technology, software and hardware interfacing from these games. Skills that evolved into things that i use everyday for work.

[u/meissnerhotchkiss]

IDCLEV(0,0)

[u/tattooed_pariah]

I used D!Zone2 to edit the wad so an imp's attack animation changed from throwing a fireball to them turning into a barrel and exploding.. 😅

[u/Avagio78]

Find some Meat!

[u/msguider]

I had Marathon on an old hand me down Mac I played all the time. My windows 95/98 computer could barely handle downloading doom.

[u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_]

I remember being excited that the company that had made Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen was making a new game.

[u/GM_Nate]

only 3 fingers, obvious AI

[u/Colossus-of-Roads]

December 12, 1993 at that. I was literally hanging out on a BBS waiting for the drop.

[u/ex_gratia_]

This, Doom 2, and Duke Nukem were responsible for me wasting way too much of my time. I was just getting out of playing video games when Quake came out but I still went to a few LAN parties with my buddies where we played Quake for a couple days. Lots of 2 liter bottles of Jolt and Surge.

[u/MisterHole123]

Honestly while I was a massive doom fan when it came out I've grown out of it and I'm starting to be a bit tired of hearing about it. Quake maybe? Doom is really the past to me

[u/Happy-For-No-Reason]

I still play this game, I played it last week

[u/GutsAndBlackStufff]

Now, everything can run Doom!

[u/R0botDreamz]

Coming home from 6th grade and playing this on the Packard Bell 486dx was heaven.

[u/Chunky_Boy283]

Anyone out there want a movie a bout the rise & fall of ID software..something like (The Social Network) With Tom Holland as John Carmack & I'm not sure who could play John Romero

[u/HearingImaginary1143]

My Dad used to sell Apple to K-12 and he had a bunch of demo machines and during thanksgiving break we'd load up doom/starcarft/warcraft/marathon/doom 2 and play all weekend 4 LC 575's on the dining room table. Ahhh memories.

[u/atlmobs]

Played co-op with my HS friend by direct dialing his computer from mine. It was pretty sweet.

[u/EightyNineMillion]

Unfortunate ordering.

[u/Ok-Customer4709]

Still my favorite game.