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Doom is a first-person shooter game developed and published by id Software.Released on December 10, 1993, for DOS, it is the first installment in the Doom franchise.The player assumes the role of a space marine, later unofficially referred to as Doomguy, fighting through hordes of undead humans and invading demons.
Doom (stylized as DOOM) is an American media franchise created by John Carmack, John Romero, Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud, and Tom Hall. [1] The series usually focuses on the exploits of an unnamed space marine (often referred to as Doomguy or Doom Slayer) operating under the auspices of the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC), who fights hordes of demons and the undead to save Earth from an ...
Doom, a first-person shooter game by id Software, was released in December 1993 and is considered one of the most significant and influential video games in history. [1] [2] [3] Development began in November 1992, with programmers John Carmack and John Romero, artists Adrian Carmack and Kevin Cloud, and designer Tom Hall.
Doomguy or Doom Slayer [a] is the protagonist of the Doom franchise by id Software. He was created by American video game designer John Romero and was introduced as the player character in the original 1993 video game Doom. Within the Doom series, Doomguy is a demon hunting space marine dressed in green
Doom (2016 video game), the fifth installment; Doom Eternal (2020 video game), the sixth installment; Doom engine, which powers Doom games and others; Doom (novel series), a series of books based on the first two video games, by Dafydd ab Hugh and Brad Linaweaver; Doom: The Boardgame, a board game adaptation of the video games
id Software has also published novels based on the Doom series Doom novels. After a brief hiatus from publishing, id resumed and re-launched the novel series in 2008 with Matthew J. Costello's (a story consultant for Doom 3 and now Rage) new Doom 3 novels: Worlds on Fire and Maelstrom.
For the first time, Robert Downey Jr. has shared the story behind his return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Doctor Doom in "Avengers: Doomsday."
He also claimed that everyone involved at working on the original Doom was an atheist (although game designer Sandy Petersen is a Mormon). [54] On December 19, 2023, Romero acquired Irish citizenship, after living there for about 8 years. [55] Romero was referenced in the 2020 video game Doom Eternal as King Ormero. [56]