Another Doom addict
Yes, I had the Doom addiction too: Doom and then Doom II, though it never went beyond that. Heretic, Quake etc. never floated my boat.

I too would sit there playing right up until bedtime and then have the nightmares. I did it a couple of times too often and then made a rule that I stopped playing at least an hour before going to bed.

The level of my addiction? In a non Doom-related incident, I managed to fold a brand new, sharp and shiny Swiss Army Knife blade shut on the end of the ring finger of my right hand. It went in almost to the bone, it hurt, it bled a lot, it took about a year for the feeling to come back into the fingertip, and it left a permanent scar. But all of that paled into insignificance: It was the finger that operated the right arrow key when playing Doom, and it was too painful to play for about a fortnight. Not that it stopped me from trying.

Deathmatches were great. One guy at work was pretty evenly matched with me, and another was just cannon fodder. I even wrote software for Doom II that randomised the levels and disabled the exits (nothing worse than someone 'accidentally' quitting while they're ahead on a deathmatch.)

Yes, you could say that I was addicted to Doom.
( Horatio P Lemming, Thu 18 Dec 2008, 19:22, 1 reply)

I had a feeling there may be others out there.
I once read a magazine article that hypothesised that Doom was responsible for millions of failed exams, jobs, marriages.

I couldn't agree more.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Fri 19 Dec 2008, 9:20, closed)