Doom, Myst, and the War for the Soul of Video Games
In the 1990s, Myst and Doom fought a war for the soul of video games. Myst sold almost twice as many copies. Within ten years, the entire industry had remodeled itself around Doom. Special call out to Jimmy Maher at the Digital Antiquarian (https://filfre.net) whose work covering early video games I drew on extensively.
Some Corrections:
* I mention the Nintento 64 as the rival to the Genesis when I meant the Super Nintendo
* Doom was not Id's last Shareware game; their next game, Quake, was also distributed as Shareware
* First person mode was the primary mode of Ultima Underworld
* There…
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