
Man, if you were gaming back in ’93 when Doom dropped, you knew it was something special. Seriously, never had I faced so many undead monsters, crazy mutants, and just straight-up demons! It wasn’t like anything else at the time. What really blew my mind was how it looked – it used clever 2D tricks to feel like a real 3D world, which people started calling ‘2.5D’ later on. It wasn’t id Software’s first attempt at this kind of thing, though. They’d already made Wolfenstein 3D, which was a pretty groundbreaking early first-person shooter – everyone called it the ‘grandfather of FPS’ – but Doom just took everything to a whole new level.