[Lewis Scott Childs]

So, not only was it recently the 25th Anniversary of Half-Life, but it was also just recently the 30th Anniversary of Doom! These games, they grow up so fast!

Among my favourite series. Came to it late. Turn of the millennium to be exact. But it meant I did so at the right age, rather than younger than I should have as many people seem almost proud to admit.

First experienced the Snes version of the original, was an unintended loan from a friend as the cartridge was buried in a box Warhammer! Was able to keep it for a while, coming straight from having played Jurassic Park I thought 'Wow this whole game is like those interior sections from Jurassic Park' where truth was that game had interior sections like Doom!

Had to return it before could even get halfway through the first episode. Mainly because of not finishing something I started I wanted more. That Christmas brother got the PSone and with it PSX Doom. What a change! I had only the briefest experience of the original but enough to acknowledge the shift in tone here. Summer I finished high school, and when purchasing newly released Blue Shift for my self birthday present, was able to also get Ultimate, and experience Doom where it began and belonged at last.

Been at it ever since, every release of the originals for PC and PSX, and last able to experience 64 with the original TC back in mid noughties. Doom 3 and expansion I first played on the Xbox and they were fine ports, not yet played those on PC but one day for sure.