#HTE

Doom turns 25 - the FPS that wowed players, gummed up servers and enraged admins

Who cares about that, let’s whip out the BFG and blow up some of our coworkers

On December 10, 1993, after a marathon 30-hour coding session, the developers at id Software uploaded the first finished copy of Doom for download, the game that was to redefine first-person shooter (FPS) gaming. Hours later IT admins wanted their guts for garters.…

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