Great article. Anyone who had the joy of playing games during that period can relate to this. Back in '92, after having not played video games since packing away my commodore64, I bought a 386 PC to use as a 'word processor'. when I noticed a file called WOLF3D.bat . I click it and that was it.... the rest is... as stated above.

Would love to revisit these games, to wait on the reload screen after 54 attempts to clear a hall full of nazis, to hide in the shadows waiting an hour to decide on how to take on a Cyberdemon. i believe it was the Doom mods that first incorporated the army of darkness quotes. I listened to the Quake soundtrack more than playing the game. I swear, Nukem was basically Escape from LA.

Network play was also a ground breaking experience that got developed on Doom and Duke Nukem. Now I'm tempted to play these games again, won't be the same buzz, but good the remember.

*Shadow Warrior should be on this list.