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385: First Person Shooters: Exploring 40 Years of History - The Retro Hour EP385

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

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What Made Doom So Special?

I remember as a kid, I actually found the secret level in Wolfenstein 3D. One of the jokes among the id guys was that they were basically making Pac-Man with guns. Scott Miller put it best in our documentary when he said that the secrets gave you the impression of there being more to the world just than what you can see by default.

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