While id Software's classic first person shooter Doom was a huge hit mostly on the game alone it didn't hurt that the box cover artwork for the game was incredible as well. Last month, the artist for the box art, Don Ivan Punchatz, died at the age of 73.
An updated game client has been released for Skulltag, a Doom and Doom II mod now available for download.
Shortly after the id ZeniMax news broke, John Romero released the following comments via twitter...
Rockpapershotgun: While adult-me might have baulked at Killing Floor's testosteronal presentation, I still revert gladly back to dumb little teenage-me whenever I play the original Doom. To this end, I am diligently ensuring I'm able to play the thing anywhere and anywhen. There is nowhere in my house from which I cannot reach Doom within a matter of seconds, be it on my PC, my 360, my hacked iPhone. In case of grumpy, old-man-y emergency: fire up the game. This has become even easier now there's a proper-shiny, free in-browser version of id's medium-defining dumbass shooter. Bonus: it includes Heretic and Hexen too.
Yesterday, Doom turned 15. What were John Romero's plans for the occasion? According to him, "tonight I'm going to be playing some DeathTag with my son (our team) against my friend and his son and do some serious skullcracking."
On December 10th 1993, id Software introduced a title that would change the face of gaming as we knew it. Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the revolutionary FPS, Doom.
Kotaku writes: "What hasn't Doom been ported to at this point? You can't answer "Flash 10!" anymore, as an enterprising Newgrounds contributor has gone to the effort to port the id Software classic to Adobe's platform, making the first-person shooter playable in the web browser of your choice. It's a tidy little port, if a bit slow on this writer's 2 year old MacBook Pro."