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posted by chromas on Tuesday December 11 2018, @11:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the Anniversary-Spectacular-of-Spooky-Doom dept.

Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984

Ready to feel ancient? The original Doom is 25 years old -- and co-creator John Romero wants to make sure you know it. He's preparing an add-on for the 1993 game, Sigil, that serves as a "spiritual successor" to the classic shooter's fourth episode ("Thy Flesh Consumed") with nine single-player story levels as well as nine multiplayer deathmatch levels. The expansion will be free if you're just looking for some nostalgia-fueled demon slaying, but you can also spend a lot of money on it if you're determined to flaunt your fandom.

[...] Both the new levels and the physical copies are expected to arrive in mid-February.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/10/john-romero-doom-sigil-expansion/

According to Paul Thurrott, there will be 9 new single players levels and 9 new death match levels released for free but you will need the original DOS game in order to play them. It's planned for mid February so comfortably misses the 25 year anniversary.

"SIGIL is the spiritual successor to the fourth episode of DOOM, and picks up where the original left off."

I'm guessing you could get a legitimate copy from Good Old Games or fire up DOSBOX if you still have a version on floppy that will actually load.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 12 2018, @04:58PM (#773522)

    May? Will, F-man, will.

  • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Saturday December 15 2018, @03:52PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Saturday December 15 2018, @03:52PM (#774788)

    I hate to break it to you, but the modern "internet" works fine, as long as it doesn't mean you're talking about what the World Wide Web has turned into.

    For an OS with the browser built in, it doesn't work the way they intended anymore, but that's OK, because I never quite used it the way they intended.

    It actually demonstrates pretty well why they want everyone on windows as a service--there'll be no way to work around things with them in control. But anyway, the laptop works great for everything I used to do on it back before I got a new one in 2000 or 2001. It actually does those things *better* now that I've been able to upgrade it with things I couldn't afford, or didn't even exist at the time.

    That said, I don't use it for much. I have to turn it on now and then to keep the flash storage from going stale. And of course, make sure its in working shape for the occasional hexen/heretic/doom/descent and other older games like red alert and age of empires.

    Emulation can't capture the roland sound canvas music; there's also a certain ambience to surpassing limitations on old hardware or getting that upgrade you never dreamed you could get, and reliving some of the games with options enabled you couldn't try before (even if it it all pales compared to modern gear). Going retro can make a geek feel a little younger and a little older at the same time, and it's that much more appealing when its on original hardware that actually works in ways you couldn't afford in the past.