Read something neat about how one of the most influential games of all time, Doom, got it's name.
"After the success of Wolfenstein 3-D, id Software programmer/designer John Carmack was already hard at work on a follow-up. The concept for the new game was said to be Aliens meets Evil Dead II, so the game’s working title, It’s Green and Pissed, seems pretty self-explanatory. But Carmack admits that a game with that name might have been a hard sell. Instead, inspiration struck while he was watching the Tom Cruise/Paul Newman billiards film, The Color of Money.
There’s a scene where Cruise’s character, Vincent, is holding his custom pool cue case, waiting for the next game on a table. The winner of the current game walks over to him and asks, “Whatchu’ got in there?” Vincent rubs the case and asks, “In here?” He smiles a cocky grin and replies, “Doom.” Vincent then goes on to destroy his opponent, which is what Carmack thought he and his id buddies would do to the industry once their new game hit the market. He was right.
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/139896#ixzz280ruIfOV
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So there you have it, spinning pool cues, Werewolves of London playing in every poolhall, and DOOM, all from COM.
"After the success of Wolfenstein 3-D, id Software programmer/designer John Carmack was already hard at work on a follow-up. The concept for the new game was said to be Aliens meets Evil Dead II, so the game’s working title, It’s Green and Pissed, seems pretty self-explanatory. But Carmack admits that a game with that name might have been a hard sell. Instead, inspiration struck while he was watching the Tom Cruise/Paul Newman billiards film, The Color of Money.
There’s a scene where Cruise’s character, Vincent, is holding his custom pool cue case, waiting for the next game on a table. The winner of the current game walks over to him and asks, “Whatchu’ got in there?” Vincent rubs the case and asks, “In here?” He smiles a cocky grin and replies, “Doom.” Vincent then goes on to destroy his opponent, which is what Carmack thought he and his id buddies would do to the industry once their new game hit the market. He was right.
Read the full text here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/139896#ixzz280ruIfOV
--brought to you by mental_floss!
"
So there you have it, spinning pool cues, Werewolves of London playing in every poolhall, and DOOM, all from COM.
