DOOM had players ripping around corridor mazes of a Martian space base in a descent down to the depths of Hell as a nameless, generic marine known simply by fans as “DOOMguy.”ĭOOM designer John Romero explained years later, “There was never a name for the DOOM marine because it’s supposed to be you ” ( link ). “ DOOM clones,” as they were then called, had flooded the market after former business partner id Software’s 1993 cultural juggernaut took the computer gaming world by force. Scott Miller, founder of Apogee Software, doing business as 3D Realms, stated that the mission of Duke Nukem 3D was to break the cookie-cutter mold of first-person shooters.
