DJ Allyn – The Soundtrack for my Life

DOOM  

In 1993,  id Software released the landmark first-person shooter computer game DOOM.  It is widely recognized for having popularized the first person shooter genre, pioneering immersive 3D graphics as well as true third dimension spatiality, networked multiplayer gaming, and support for customized additions and modifications (called “WADs”). Its graphic and interactive violence, as well as its Satanic imagery, also made it the subject of considerable controversy. With a third of the game (9 levels) distributed as shareware, Doom was played by an estimated 10 million people within two years of its release, popularizing the mode of gameplay and spawning a gaming subculture; as a sign of its effect on the industry, games from the mid-1990s boom of first-person shooters are often known simply as “Doom clones”. According to GameSpy, Doom was voted by industry insiders to be the greatest game of all time in 2004.

This highly-addictive game was responsible for sucking up hours of  otherwise productive time and now I have included DOOM as well as its cousins, Heritic and HeXen.

Navigation

Moving around – Hold the LEFT BUTTON on your mouse to move around.
Fire Weapon – Space bar
Open doors or secret passages – R Key

Play in Full Screen Mode

Here are some cheats for you

This game is likely to kick your ass when you play for the first time.  It isn’t so much that you kill everything and move on to the next level, but you also need to be able to find all of the secrets and do so in as little time as possible.  The higher the levels, the harder it gets.  So to help you out, I will give you some of the cheat codes…

idbeholda: Gain Computer Area Map item (active until next map level)
idbeholdi: Gain Blur Artifact
idbeholdl: Gain light-amplification visors
idbeholdr: Gain radiation suit
idbeholds: Gain Berserk Pack
idbeholdv: Gain Invulnerability Artifact
idchoppers: Gain chain saw
idclev#$: Warp to map #$ (# is Episode number, $ is map 1 to 9)
iddqd: Toggle invincibility on/off (toggled on, health is 100%)
iddt: Type 3 times in Automap mode to 1) Reveal map, 2) Add Objects, 3) Reset
Alt-tiddt: Like iddt but Objects include opponents (game versions before 1.9)
idfa: Gain all weapons, full ammo, 200% armor
idkfa: Gain 3 keys, all weapons, full ammo, 200% armor
idmus##: Use music track ## (## is a number from 11 to 45; full version 1.9)
idmypos: Flash a message giving player’s angle and coordinates in hexadecimal
idspispopd: Toggle player’s ability to walk through walls on/off

Galaga  

In 1984, this was one of the most popular arcade video games out there. The usual thing was to get completely baked and play the game for hours.

Korean Arse Shooter  

I think the object is self-explanatory.

Asteroids  

This is a classic game and like so many other classic games it is, of course, classically pointless. The idea is to shoot the asteroids and not get hit by any of the rocks in the process.

How simpler things were back then…

River Crossing  

Here a test the Japanese use for hiring employees in the IT sector. (At least that is what it says)

Click on the round button

You see a family of six, (Mother, Father, two boys, two girls) and a policeman and a prisoner. The goal is to get everyone seen here across the river following these rules:

1. Maximum of two people can go on the float.

2. Father cannot be with any of his daughters without the mother being present.

3. Mother cannot be with any of her sons without the father being present.

4. The prisoner can not be in the presence of family members without the policeman.

5. Only the policeman and parents can drive the float.

Go ahead and give it a try. The average person is supposed to be able to do it in about 15 minutes.

If you figured out how to do it, you can share it below. Correct answers will be moved to the Solutions Page to keep it challenging here.  You can check them out, but try to do it on your own.

-DJ Allyn