Aldra1 t1_iug4x82 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 1:42 AM

It ain't - it's literally just for the memes. Really old so insanely light, code so small it can run on anything + one of the most famous games of all times, don't need much more to make it a phenomenon.

spider-bro t1_iuge7bt wrote on October 31, 2022 at 2:55 AM

It’s light now but the joke is that back in the day it was hard to run in some cases.

I had to do various weird things on my computer to get Doom working. My mom was so mad that I’d “screwed up” my computer when one of her friends reconfigured a bunch of stuff so Doom would run.

It was a Packard Bell 486-SX 33 with 4 MB of RAM.

Trying to un-fuck my computer was the beginning of my tech career.

ReallyGargoyled t1_iugv074 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 5:59 AM

It was unique in the way it was made, when it was made, it was a game that visualised 3d gaming before computers were ready for 3d games.

the reason for it to be ported to anything, is a mix of the source code being public for modding and the fact that the game is a 2d game looking and playing like a 3d game.

the real reason, Doom was and still is an awesome game and doom is the grandfarther of all shooters today.