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Doom

TitleDoom
First release1993
DevelopersNerve Software, id Software
PublishersActivision, Atari, Atari, Inc., Ocean Software, Sega, WMS Industries
Platforms3DO, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, DOS, Mega Drive / Genesis, NEC PC-98, PC (Windows), PlayStation, SNES / Super Famicom, Sega Saturn
Genresarcade, first-person shooter, horror video game, science fiction video game
Players1–4 players
Co-opYes
ESRB ratingM Mature 17+
Releases
DOS: 1993-12-10 (NTSC-U)
PlayStation: 1993-12-10 (PAL), 1995-11-16 (NTSC)
SNES / Super Famicom: 1993-12-10 (NTSC-J), 1995-09-01
Atari Jaguar: 1994-01-01
3DO: 1996-01-01
Sega Saturn: 1997-03-26, 1997-06-05 (PAL)
Wikidata IDQ189784

A nameless space marine, gets punitively posted to Mars after assaulting a commanding officer, who ordered his unit to fire upon civilians. The Martian marine base acts as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation UAC, a multi-planetary conglomerate, which is performing secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. Suddenly, one of these UAC experiments goes horribly wrong; computer systems on Phobos malfunction, Deimos disappears entirely and "something fragging evil" starts pouring out of the gateways, killing or possessing all UAC personnel! Responding to a frantic distress call from the overrun scientists, the Martian marine unit is quickly sent to Phobos to investigate, where you, the space marine, are left to guard the hangar with only a pistol while the rest of the group proceeds inside to discover their worst nightmare. As you advance further, terrifying screams echo through the vast halls, followed by a disturbing silence ... it seems, all your buddies are dead and you're all on your own now - fight back, exterminate every evil creature and get your ticket back home to earth!

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Image credits
Box art (1): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded, NTSC-U release) · © Activision · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Box art, Screenshots, Logos, Artwork (4): Source: TheGamesDB (user-uploaded) · © Activision · internal use only. TheGamesDB page
Screenshots (2): Source: libretro-thumbnails (upstream libretro-thumbnails (art by developers/publishers; see repo README)) · © Activision · internal use only.
Image: Bethesda, Copyright Microsoft, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (“Doom classic box art.png”)
Logo: id Software; Bethesda Softworks, LLC, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (“Doom – Game’s logo.svg”)
Sprites
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Videos
3DO Longplay [015] DOOM
World-of-Longplays · 3DO version · longplay · 3:34:24auto-matched
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:42 UTC
DOOM MS DOS (Longplay/Playthrough) PART 1 HD HQ By Urien84
By Urien84 Longplays · DOS version · longplay · 23:27auto-matched
Part of a multi-part series.
Watch on YouTube ↗ · auto:channel-harvest, checked 2026-10-25 18:41 UTC
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