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Four straight home losses to the dreaded New York powers (Clarkson, Cornell, Colgate and St. Lawrence) seemed to spell certain doom for the small band of Harvard players struggling to hang onto home ice advantage in the playoffs...
...cloak-and-dagger antics aren't just a publicity ploy. When Doom was released to its waiting public on midnight of Dec. 10, 1993, via the University of Wisconsin's computer system, the weight of 1,500 simultaneous download demands crashed the whole network. "Maximum overload," gloats Jay Wilbur, the marketing superego behind id. "We took the whole university...
...With Doom, id perfected a clever strategy. The company gave away the first third of the game over the Internet, hooking huge numbers of players who then later paid $40 for the rest. "Shareware" versions of Doom may have been copied 30 million times. Doom generated more than $30 million in sales, $15.7 million last year...
...Doom's charm wasn't its almost non-existent plot line, which involved space marines--or something. The attraction was hunt-and-be-hunted action that put the player behind a shotgun barrel (or a chain saw or a nail gun) in a hellish 3-D world of demons and fireball-spitting ogres...
Quake has a similarly empty script, but by using a radically different "graphics engine," it will deliver mesmerizing 3-D modeling. Doom addict Trent Reznor, of the rock band Nine Inch Nails, has created Quake's heavy-metal sound effects. The enhancements make Quake much more realistic than Doom--and yes, bloodier. (Kids: heads fly off and roll around on the ground! Zombies actually pull chunks of flesh out of their hides and fling them at you, then explode like red water balloons when you shoot them with your nine-inch nail...