DOOM

DOOM is a popular first-person shooter done by id Software in 1993. In this game, you take the role of a space marine, who has been brought to Mars where secret experiments were done by the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC). It ends up in having to fight against monsters on the two moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) and the hell. Due to pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming and wide support for custom game modding, it became a milestone in the PC game industry. The resulted boom of first-person shooters in the mid-1990s were often known as “DOOM clones“. Originally developed on NeXT workstations and released for MS-DOS, DOOM has been ported to a lot of platforms like QNX, BeOS, Solaris, Linux, Amiga, Mac OS, Sega 32X, PlayStation, SNES, Nintendo 64, Xbox and others, too. Since more people had DOOM on their PC than Win95, Microsoft developed a Windows port to promote Windows 95 as a gaming platform on the PC.