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[Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? (www.youtube.com)
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[โ€“] Deestan@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's so funny to be reminded of that period in the 90s where any first person game was described as a "DOOM clone", because DOOM itself was the first FPS that hugely took off.

[โ€“] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 17 points 6 months ago

Exactly, DOOM is DOOM. I remember hearing Wolfenstein calls a DOOM Clone too.