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Doom is 20 years old already! Here, have a dancing Cyberdemon


Gamers in the 1990s who got their dose of nightmare fuel from the first-person shooter game "Doom!" would likely do a double-take upon seeing this video marking the game's 20th anniversary.
 
The video posted Dec. 10 on YouTube features the deadly alien monsters from the classic, but with a twist: they're not out to kill, they're out to party.
 
 
The "game" starts normally, with the player finding his way around a maze, with his weapon drawn in case he meets a hostile alien or monster.
 
But there is a momentary darkness - and the player finds himself face to face with all the game's monsters, all at the same time.
 
Nothing to fear, though - the monsters are wearing party hats and dancing to the "Happy Birthday" song, with a birthday cake right in the middle.
 
Shooting at the cake uncovered a dancing monster.
 
An article on tech site Mashable said "Doom" debuted on Dec. 10, 1993, when id Software uploaded it to a bulletin board system and file transfer protocol (FTP) server - at a time the Internet was in its relative infancy.
 
It said that while there were shooter-type games before, including Wolfenstein 3D, Doom "was by far the most influential, spawning plenty of imitators."
 
"So happy birthday, Doom. On behalf of gamers everywhere, thanks for the many hours of fun, guiltless slaughter as we blasted evil, low-res monsters to smithereens. Perhaps you even helped a few otherwise craven gamers feel invincible in their real lives for a little while, bestowing a bit of virtual courage that gave them some direly needed confidence... Then again, maybe we all just wasted a lot of time in the '90s," it added. — TJD, GMA News
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