Were you old enough to play Doom when it first came out?

I barely was a sperm in my dad's nutsack when it came out. Played it the first time when I was 4-5years old

Fun fact: When I was a kid, like many, I had to wait for either Christmas, or my Birthday to get the cool new game that I wanted.

I had magazines like Gamepro, and I was obsessed with Alien 3 for SNES, but I never got to play or own it. (I think I may have checked it out on an emulator for like 5 mins when I was older, and lost interest) I was also fascinated with the idea of making my own game. If you would have told me I would have made Aliens-related mods later on in life, I would have bounced off the walls in excitement like an ADHD-kid that just took a massive hit of crack cocaine. It wasn't until the failure of Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013) did I say "Fuck it, I'm going to make one of my own".

I'm only 28, so I wasn't eligible. But I kind of feel like the games I played (and comprehended well enough to beat them) when I was around 7-10 were more complicated than DOOM. I did get stuck playing HeXen (on PSX unfortunately) when I was about 8 or 9, but I also got stuck on HeXen when I was 25, so I don't think that one counts. But I think PSX platformers like MediEvil/Nightmare Creatures, and games like Banjo Kazooie and especially Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask are a lot more complex than DOOM, and I beat those when I was a young kid. I think that even a six year old could probably beat the original DOOM on UV if you just gave him enough time to practice. I think playing video games since I was a kid really improved my hand and eye coordination and reaction time. Probably my sense of navigation too. I'm glad I was born into a time where I was able to shoot demons instead of watching reruns of Married with Children every night. I think that kids are generally smart enough to figure out most video games as soon as their reading capability and coordination are good enough. Hell, a lot of times they can hack through it even if they don't know how to read yet.

I wasn't even born back then.

Once it becomes easier to create a game engine than it currently is to mod for Doom that will be a huge game changer. The big thing for doom is that there is a solid game you can easily build on so the heavy lifting is already done but that heavy lifting is becoming lighter every year. People that enjoy Doom will continue to but less new people will get into it. A good cross generational and cross cultural community to bring in new people would help maintain it somewhat but unfortunately the larger sites that would serve that purpose appear to be run by intolerant self-serving xenophobes so not very good long term survival chances from what I would guess.

I'm born in 1987, but i didn't play Doom until 2019-20. I got into pc gaming in the late 90's and got to experience Half-Life, Quake 2 and Unreal when they we're new releases, and because as a kid i was into what was new for its time, i missed on the original Quake, Duker Nukem 3D, and i never heard of Doom up until the Dwayne Johnson movie. And for some reason i still didn't play Doom 3 at the time. Then i've spend 15 years without playing any FPS games, because i got hooked on the RPG genre, which before that point i was unnable to appreciate, because i didn't know any english. Thenone night in late 2019 i decided to replay Half-Life for the first time in more than 2 decades, and i got so hooked, that i went on and played all bunch of classic shooters in the following months, including Doom/Doom 2, which both made really strong impression on me. I'm was to appreciate how amazing Doom is, and tell how wrong are the people who think the game is still popular out of nostalgia... because i never had any nostalgia for it.