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Encyclopedia > Doom
Look up doom in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Doom refers to a state or feeling of impending and inevitable destruction and ruin, far beyond mere trouble. It can also mean the following things: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

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id Software property

Doom is a series of video games by id Software, and several licensed properties have been based on the series. id Software (IPA: officially, though originally ) is an American computer game developer based in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. ...

  • Doom (video game), a first-person shooter computer game released in 1993
  • Doom II: Hell on Earth, the 1994 sequel
  • Final Doom, a 64-level continuation of the Doom II story released in 1996
  • Doom 64, first person shooter for the Nintendo 64 released in 1997
  • Doom 3, the 2004 game
  • Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil, the 2005 Expansion to Doom 3.
  • Doom (film), a movie based on the computer game series of the same name
  • Doom RPG, a role-playing game for mobile phones, based on the first-person shooter computer game
  • Doom: The Boardgame, a board game adaptation of the computer game

Doom (or DOOM)[1] is a 1993 computer game by id Software that is a landmark title in the first-person shooter genre. ... The cover artwork for Doom II, painted by fantasy artist Gerald Brom, depicts the Doom space marine firing a shotgun at a gigantic Cyberdemon. ... Final Doom is a first-person shooter computer game that uses the game engine, items and characters from Doom II. It consists of two 32-level megawads (level files), TNT: Evilution by brothers Dario and Milo Casali and TeamTNT, and The Plutonia Experiment by the Casali brothers. ... Doom 64 is a video game for the Nintendo 64 released by Midway Games in 1997. ... Doom 3 is a science fiction, survival horror, first-person shooter video game. ... Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil is a first-person shooter expansion pack for the 2004 video game, Doom 3. ... Doom is a 2005 science fiction horror film adaptation of the popular Doom series of video games created by Id Software. ... Doom RPG is a mobile phone game developed by Fountainhead Entertainment. ...

In popular culture

Countdown to Doom is a text adventure computer game, more recently termed interactive fiction, written in 1982 by Peter Killworth. ... Doom is a Japanese thrash metal band by former Zadkiel members Takashi and Koh. ... Cover of Police Bastard (1989) EP Doom was a band which were pivotal in the rise of crust punk/hardcore punk and oringinated from Birmingham, England. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mount Doom, or Orodruin, is a volcano in Mordor where the One Ring was forged in the Crack of Doom, a fiery chasm within the mountain. ... Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) is a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. ... Judge Doom throttles Roger Rabbit. ... Black Doom is the fictional antagonist from the game Shadow the Hedgehog, created by Sega Studios USA. Black Doom is the leader of the Black Arms. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Doom was a professional wrestling tag team in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling that consisted of Ron Simmons and Butch Reed which existed from 1989 to 1991. ... Doom is the 1997 debut album of hip hop group Mood. ... Job for a Cowboys first album released on a record label after a self-financed Demo. ... This article is about the Final Fantasy franchise. ... Thulsa Doom is a villainous fictional character first appearing in the Kull novel Delcardes Cat by Robert E. Howard. ... James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is an American Academy Award-nominated, Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage well known for his deep basso voice. ... This article is about the 1982 film. ...

In history

  • dōm (pronounced "doom"), the Anglo-Saxon word meaning "judgment", "law"
  • Doom book the Laws of King Aelfred, Legal Code of Alfred the Great, Code of Alfred 893
  • Doom Book, a list kept in the 1930s by United States censor Will Hays
  • Doom (painting), a painting that depicts the Last Judgment

Anglo-Saxon law is a body of legal rules and customs which obtained in England before the Norman conquest, and which constitute, with the Scandinavian laws, the most genuine expression of Teutonic legal thought. ... The Doom Book was a list kept in the 1930s by United States censor Will Hays and major Hollywood studio moguls. ... For the 10th century Bishop of Sherborne, see Alfred (bishop). ... The Doom Book was a list kept in the 1930s by United States censor Will Hays and major Hollywood studio moguls. ... A Doom is a painting that depicts the Christian eschatological belief of the Last Judgment. ...

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Doom metal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1871 words)
Doom metal is a form of heavy metal that emerged as a recognized genre of metal in the mid-1980s.
Doom metal is slow and heavy, with a pessimistic nature and often with intentions to evoke an atmosphere of darkness, despair and misery.
Doom metal first became widely recognized within the metal scene with Sweden's Candlemass, who are hailed in the mainstream metal press as one of the most important and influential doom metal bands; their 1986 album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus is considered a genre-defining release.
Doom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4042 words)
Doom is notable for the weapons arsenal available to the player, which became prototypical for first-person shooters.
Doom was not the first first-person shooter with a deathmatch mode—MIDI Maze on the Atari ST had one in 1987, using the MIDI ports built into the ST to network up to four machines together.
Doom was and remains notorious for its high levels of violence, gore, and satanic imagery, which have generated much controversy from a broad range of groups.
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