Is Doom as old school as the NES?
 

I know it's not much of a first thread, but this has been plaguing me since the first time I'd browsed the forums.

I know this is mostly a console-centric site, but I wanted some opinions on whether or not DOOM would actually qualify as 'old school' as, say, Excitebike or Duck Hunt/ Mario Bros. (or Final Fantasy to be obvious).

I would also like to hear some opinions on if DOOM's run-and-gun gameplay is simplistic enough to be fun every time you play it, whether or not you're continuing a save (i.e. similar to Galaga or Space Invaders where you can just up-and-play without a bunch of fancy backstory or special graphics, and still have the game fun to play).

Lets see doom came out when I was in 7th grade(*note I'm a college senior now*).. so yes. It is old school. Perhaps not as much as NES, but old school none the less.

Doom was the most intense thing I ever played... and I remember ducking at the screen in attempts to dodge virtual bullets.

DOOM was based on Wolfenstein, which if I remember was on the old computer systems and we're talking C64. And I think that was before console...do we remember before consoles?

So yeah DOOM is old school and so was Wolfenstein.

It can be considered old school because it laid the foundations for the genre the way Super Mario and FF1 did.

Doom was based on Wolfenstein 3D, which was quite a bit different from the old Castle Wolfenstein game for the Apple II. Gameplay-wise, Castle Wolfenstein had more in common with Metal Gear than with Wolf3D.

And Doom isn't as old-school as the NES, coming as it did almost ten years after the NES was released, but it still belongs in the category of classig games.

(Although with a few updates, it still holds up quite well, even today.)

Definately old school, and I too did the screen duck. It was probably what screwed me up so bad, seeing dead bodies stuck on pikes while in 3rd or 4th grade will do that to you.

Doom is old-school, but indeed a classic.
I didn't do the screen duck... rather the screen run away :rolleyes:

The game scared the crap outta me whenever dad was playing.

On the Great Scale Of Old-Schoolishness, only Wolfenstein 3D would be roughly equivalent in OQ (Oldschool Quotient) to the NES.

DOOM would, by comparison, be comparable in OQ to (though overall still not quite as Oldschool as) the SNES.

Well, if you think about it, true old school would be atari...

no, scratch that, there are those old apple computers, and the C64, and who knows what else.

So, in comparison with the NES as oldschool, I'd say yes. I also very much like the definition someone else brought up, about it laying foundation for future games, which Doom does indeed do.

Doom is oldschool. But then, when is the turning point between old school and new school?

Text Adventures!! THOSE are old school. Not many gamers these days remember them....

*feels old again*