`Doom' Becomes Digital Game World Phenomenon

From: All Things Considered (NPR) | Date: September 29, 1994 | Copyright information
00-00-0000
LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: There are demons loose in cyberspace - green monsters heaving fireballs, pitiless pink chomper demons that will bite the life out of you if you stumble on one of them in the dark corridors of the computer game Doom. Doom has become a digital world phenomenon. Advanced sales of the new version out this weekend have hit half a million. The game enjoys almost cult-like loyalty and is making its creators rich. NPR's John McChesney survived a bout ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from HighBeam Research

FANS LIVE WITH DOOM AS QUAKE APPROACHES.(BUSINESS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ; ... games for this year. ``I've never seen a game before with entire news groups and Web sites dedicated to it,'' said Todd Copilevitz ... columnist who examines and critiques software for The Dallas Morning News. ``They've really got their work cut out.'' The Doom popularity ... month, the company put out a test ...
Small Tech Firms Gain By Working in Partnership
The Journal Record ; "For us, it's a labor of love, and the rewards just happen to come along with it." _ Jay Wilbur, id Software By Dwight Silverman Houston Chronicle Long ago and far away, the two owners of a very small software company shook hands on a deal with representatives from a very big hardware company. The
The boffins give the game away
The Independent - London ; ... world to life. But it also gave the diehard gamers something to chew upon, something to rant or rave about in newsgroups such as news:rec.games.computer. quake.misc, rgcq.announce and rcgq.editing. The diehards even devised their own "patches" to fill in gaps ...
EA Partners with Development Studio id Software on 'Rage'
Wireless News ; EA Partners with Development Studio id Software on 'Rage' WIRELESS NEWS-July 19, 2008-EA Partners with Development Studio id Software on 'Rage' (C)2008 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Electronic Arts ...
Jamdat Mobile Brings id Software's 'Doom' to Mobile Phones in Japan
Wireless News ; Wireless News 12-05-2005 Jamdat Mobile Brings id Software's 'Doom' to Mobile Phones in Japan WIRELESS NEWS-January 12, 2006-Jamdat Mobile Brings id Software's 'Doom' to Mobile Phones in Japan (C)2006 10Meters - http:// www.10meters.com Global wireless ...