Nice, I like reading people’s cherished memories of old games!
My story is very different though. The first time I saw DOOM was shortly after my family got our first brand new computer, a 386. The best game we had on that machine was Wolf3D, which I thought was absolutely mind-blowing at the time.
When I saw DOOM on a friend’s computer you might expect me to be even more amazed, but I had only just sold my soul to Wolf3D, and I didn’t want to accept anything being more advanced or better than that game. Especially because it felt really special to me to have a cool new 386, and it would never be able to play DOOM.
So I actually resisted DOOM for quite a few years. I only came round to it about 8 or 10 years later, once it had become pretty much irrelevant and no longer such a threat. I eventually played the shareware episode, realised it was actually pretty fuin, then, on a class excursion to the Queen Vic Markets, I bought a discounted boxed copy of Final Doom.
I guess the rest was history.
