Doom

About

As of 2026, it's 33 years old.

Doom didn't just refine the first-person shooter in 1993 — it became a cultural force, a piece of software so ubiquitous that 'can it run Doom?' is now a running joke applied to everything from calculators to pregnancy tests to a literal potato.

Fast, demonic, and built for both carnage and creativity, it pioneered multiplayer deathmatch and a modding community that has kept it alive for over three decades. People are still making levels for it.

Influential, relentless, and apparently impossible to kill, Doom is the game that conquered hell and then quietly conquered every other piece of electronics on Earth.