Wow. Unbelievable! A friend slips me two floppies, says, "Go home, unzip these." I stick them in my 486 and five minutes later I'm Doomed. My jaw hangs open. I am way impressed. So you don't play games? Okay, don't play games. But get a copy of Doom and check out what a game can be. (The first level is free from many ftp sites. Try Sogang University in Seoul, Korea: ftp sogang/ac.kr and get the files in /msdos/games/ wuarchive_uploads/doom/).
You will be amazed. Run through a toxic death lab and try to stay alive. Bob and weave through real-time 3-D environments, fighting soldiers and demons. Use a good sound card and you'll get chills hearing them breathe down your neck.
The atmosphere of these first episodes borders on the satanic. You fight with a shotgun, plasma gun, and chain saw, but get over it. It's violent, but it's also great programming, great graphics, and a giant leap forward in PC game technology. Built on the 3-D technique of ID's Wolfenstein, this game goes way beyond: Lightcasting, networking, and more detailed maps push Doom into a whole new level. The remaining levels are just 40 bucks, and after you play the free ones, you'll gladly pay for the others. So loosen up, have some fun, and check out state-of-the-art game design. And if your PC is on a network, you can play doom in network mode with up to three other game freaks. There's the cooperative mode, but everybody goes for the death-match scenario - where the object, as stated in the instructions, is to "Kill everything that moves, including your buddies."
Doom for DOS: US$40. ID software: (800) 434 2637, +1 (214) 613 0132.
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