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 nostr:npub1wnaqnkvjp2qt2kzsqqycjdd6kcff6t873vr53ru7wgkntmah8zcqwjewh8 Yeah, id Software is so important to gaming that you can’t ignore them. Doom is probably the most important video game of all time. Not just for the game itself but for what it represented. 

Really, you could divide gaming history into two eras: before and after Doom. 

What makes it all the more incredible is that, at the time, id Software were the equivalent of today’s indie developers. The shareware scene were the renegades at the time.