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About
Doom is a first person shooter game series created by id Software. In the game, you asume the role of a Space Marine (known as Doomguy) who fights against hordes of demons to avoid a Hell invasion.
The game have become a popular game during the years, thanks to the release of mods and new levels creations.
Internet following
Doom has a large fanbase on the interwebs, stretching back to the release of the game. Due to the game’s easy to modify nature (id Software’s deliberate design to push the user-created content phenomena that originated with Wolfenstein 3D further), within a year after the game’s release players had programmed level editors, created forums and hubs for sharing modified content. Edited content is downloaded and added into game files through PWADS, custom patch files that are acquired through downloading from bulletin board system , purchased on compact disks at computer stores, and later on downloading from file transfer protocol servers became the primary method of distribution. The idgames’s archive currently houses more than 14,500 PWADS created over the years
Search Interest
Search queries for “doom” picked up in June of 2004, when “Doom 3” was released, and in October of 2005, when the movie was released.