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...HAVE A PROBLEM. I'M STUCK AT Level 6. I've been playing the computer game Doom II for, what, a week? Two weeks? Does time even matter anymore? I've blasted my way up to Level 6, and I can't figure how to get out. Two dozen higher levels await me. I've slaughtered "hell knights" and revenants and blubbery pink things that resemble bulls on tiptoe. I've armed myself with shotguns, rocket launchers and plasma guns that can kill a zombie faster than you can say Hasta la vista, baby, but still...
...have finally discovered the dubious joys of Doom. I sampled the original two years ago, of course, shortly after it spread across the Internet. But the truth is, Doom made me sick. Not the blood and guts of it--Doom is no gorier than, say, a Sam Peckinpah movie. What nauseated me was the vertigo that came from peering over a gun barrel while twisting down narrow corridors...
...friend Audrey, a Doom aficionado, diagnosed my condition as dims. "Doom-induced motion sickness," she explained. "Lots of people get it. At first...
...interest of participatory journalism, I swallowed my rising gorge and tried again. I wanted to understand why Doom, in the hands of an estimated 10 million players, may be the world's most popular computer game...
Katherine T. Wen '99 subscribes to a method more traditional and accessible than Doom and prescription medication...