id Software article. "The early years"

[RyaNtheSlayA]

An interesting article though i gather many of you already know most of this. I put this in the Microsoft/Sony section because of ids influence on PC gaming, although many of their games were refined and then ported as Mac games.

http://retro.ign.com/articles/912/912758p1.html

[RyaNtheSlayA]

This sure got alot of replys didnt it

[jackspicer]

id, your so cool....you put first-person shooters on the map with wolfenstein and doom

[skate323k137]

thanks for posting this, i played the sh!t out of Id games growing up. my parents hated video games and wouldn't let me buy any consoles during the 8 bit through 16 bit era. By the time the Saturn came around I was delivering newspapers and started collecting old games, but up until that point the only gaming i could do was on PC. when i think about pc gaming, Keen, wolfenstein, doom, OMF, monkey island and tyrian all come to mind from different years of course. since my dad was a programmer and we had computers around the house all the time, i built several 486/33 and 486/66 pc's, and i had a 100mhz pentium as soon as it was on the market. if i remember right it was roughly 2,000 dollars at the time (including monitor/keyboard/etc) for a p100 with a 1.2gb hard drive and 16 or 32 mb of ram. I think i still used that PC to play text-based games on a BBS, and I probably still have my old gravis gamepad somewhere.

[baphomet_irl]

seriously I do adore id software, I spent so much time playing Quake I, II and III, which I will never forget. I have every release they ever produced (admittedly a lot of the earlier stuff is in the form of the 'Book of id' boxset).

Even though as im getting older Im playing FPS's less and less, I will always buy any primary id game, and I would still read any Carmack interviews I see, the guy is seriously a genius.