The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

These ports of Doom have the characteristic of running on virtual machines such as the Java Virtual Machine or Adobe Flash while still being based on the Doom source code.

With Vic's consciousness dormant, but his desire for companionship controlling the actions of the Technis ' planet, it began kidnapping former Titans members-his conscious mind so suppressed that he was not only searching for deceased Titans, but even sent one probe looking for himself as Cyborg-and plugging them into virtual reality scenarios, representing what he believed to be their " perfect worlds "; for example, Beast Boy was back with the Doom Patrol, Damage was spending time being congratulated by the Justice Society, and Nightwing was confronted by a Batman who actually smiled.

* The Scissormen, a race of beings that attack non-fictional beings in the " real world " ( i. e., the world the Doom Patrol live in ) with their large scissor-like hands and literally cut people out of reality.

In a reality where villains have won and divided up America amongst themselves, Emma Frost marries Doctor Doom in order to ensure the survival of her species.

In the Earth-110 reality, Ultron assisted Doctor Doom, Hulk, Magneto, Namor, and Red Skull in taking over Manhattan.

In reality, she was assigned to get close to him so Doom could copy the Tallus, which he does.

The Exiles then visit a reality where Valeria Richards has traveled and has called them for help to save the world from the Fearsome Quintet of Gold Goblin, Magneta, the Blood Skull, Black Baron Dormammu, and Doom.

During the " Heroes Reborn " company-wide crossover, an alternate-universe analog of Wingfoot was purportedly a government agent assigned to monitor independent spaceflight and extraterrestrial meetings, but was in reality a spy working for that universe's version of Doctor Doom.

Things took a turn for the worse when Dr. Doom takes Scarlet Witch's reality warping powers and fights the combined forces of the Avengers and X-Men.

However Franklin Richards, Mister Fantastic's son who possessed powers that enabled him to warp reality, and Valeria von Doom pool their powers and reconstitute Galactus from his star-like remnants, though the siblings burn out their powers in the act.

Delta City more recently appeared in an issue of Giffen's Doom Patrol series, undergoing considerable damage because of alternate reality versions of the team appearing and causing melee.

The series started to lose mainstream appeal as the technology of the Doom game engine was surpassed in the mid-1990s, although fans have continued making WADs, speedruns, and modifications to the original.

The franchise again received popular attention in 2004 with the release of Doom 3, a retelling of the original game using new technology, and an associated 2005 Doom motion picture.

A retelling of the original Doom using entirely new graphics technology, Doom 3 was hyped to provide as large a leap in realism and interactivity as the original Doom, and helped renew interest in the Doom franchise when it was released.

Starting with the Wolfenstein 3D franchise and continuing with the Doom and Quake series, Id pushed the boundaries of video game technology — particularly 3D computer graphics technology — and creates game engines that are heavily used throughout the video game industry.

Id Software has developed their own game engine for each of their titles when moving to the next technological milestone, including Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Shadowcaster, DOOM, Quake, Quake II, and Quake III, as well as technology used in making Doom 3.

Id Software has also overseen several games using its technology that were not made in one of their IPs such as Shadowcaster, ( early-Id Tech 1 ), Heretic, Hexen ( Id Tech 1 ), Hexen II ( Quake engine ), and Orcs and Elves ( Doom RPG engine ).

This forces Reed Richards to seize control of the country, attempting to pry the populace out from under the thumb of Doom, while at the same time disarming all of Doom's weaponry and technology, so if he ever returned, he would come back to absolutely nothing.

He has pioneered or popularised the use of many techniques in computer graphics, including " adaptive tile refresh " for Commander Keen, raycasting for Hovertank 3-D, Catacomb 3-D, and Wolfenstein 3-D, binary space partitioning which Doom became the first game to use, surface caching which he invented for Quake, Carmack's Reverse ( formally known as z-fail stencil shadows ) which he devised for Doom 3, and MegaTexture technology, first used in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

In June 2000, id Software's game engine designer John Carmack posted an internal company plan announcing a remake of Doom using next generation technology.

However, after the positive reception to Return to Castle Wolfenstein and the latest improvements in rendering technology, most of the employees agreed that a remake was the right idea and presented the two owners with an ultimatum: allow them to remake Doom or fire them.

According to John Carmack, the lead graphics engine developer at id Software, the technology of Doom 3 was supported by three primary features: unified lighting and shadowing, complex animations and scripting that showed real-time with fully dynamic per-pixel lighting and stencil shadowing, and GUI surfaces that add extra interactivity to the game.

A week before the game's release, it became known that an agreement to include EAX audio technology in Doom 3 reached by id Software and Creative Labs was heavily influenced by a software patent owned by the latter company.

Richards became fascinated with history and discovered the time travel technology created by one of his ancestors, Victor Von Doom.

Spacebridge technology was taken to its ultimate extreme in " The Ultimate Doom " when Shockwave and Megatron co-ordinated the transportation of Cybertron itself into the Solar System via the use of a colossal spacebridge.

The Doom 3 novels show the UAC to have been created by Tommy Kelliher based on ion drive technology.

As of 2010, two upcoming evolutions of major existing engines have been released: id Tech 5 ( which was used with Rage and will be used for Doom 4, and makes use of the new Virtual Texturing technology ), and the CryEngine 3, which powers Crysis 2.

Doctor Doom had managed to figure out how to operate a machine utilizing alien technology, and used it to grant her the ability to transform into a molten lava form, and fire powerful thermal energy blasts, hence her choosing the codename " Volcana ".

Marsha Rosenberg gained superhuman powers through genetic manipulation by highly advanced technology and performed by Doctor Doom.

" Released the following year, id Software's Doom included the ability to record gameplay as sequences of events that the game engine could later replay in real-time.

Though the other rings could be destroyed in dragon-fire, the One could be unmade only in the Cracks of Doom where it was forged.

Production designer Norman Reynolds could not return for Temple of Doom because of his commitment to Return of the Jedi.

The description depicts a typical deathmatch based on major titles such as Quake, Doom, Unreal Tournament and others, the purpose served is to give a basic idea of the concept ; however, given the many variations that exist and the manner that options and rules may be manipulated literally everything mentioned could be different to a minor or major degree in other games.

Descent introduced an elaborate static lighting scheme as well as simple dynamic lighting, where the environment could be lit with flares — another advancement compared to Doom.

Puke, supposedly attempting to rescue Hawk, climbed after him, only to apparently throw Hawk over the side ( with a special effect being used to make it appear as though fans could see Hegstrand's body plunging a fatal distance behind the screen ); Puke then revealed that he had been enabling Hawk's drug addiction in order to kill him and take his place in the Legion of Doom.

The two led the team to the Eastern Conference Finals, where they were eliminated by the Philadelphia Flyers in five games, as the Rangers could not match the size and strength of Eric Lindros and his " Legion of Doom " linemates.

The player is seen reloading a double-barreled shotgun, a weapon that could not be found in the original Doom.

* Vandal Savage hired LexCorp to make a device that could steal information ( in a discussion with Mirror Master ) from the Batcomputer in Justice League: Doom

After the defeat of Doom, his parents rescued him, but Franklin had a hard time coping with the traumatic experience of being tormented in Hell, to the point that he imagined that he was still in Hell rather than accept that he had escaped because he had trouble accepting that his parents wouldn't always be able to save him and preferred to ' remain ' somewhere where he could be rescued rather than face the potential dangers of the world.

Jost, meanwhile, learned that he could not own the rights to the Doom Patrol, since the man who signed the rights over to him was not actually Cliff Steele.

Despite the fierce denunciations of sinners and the terrible images of damnation in The Day of Doom, its author was known as a " genial philanthropist, so cheerful that some of his friends thought he could not be so sick as he averred.

He encountered the time machine's creator, Doctor Doom, who allowed him to return to the past, not believing that Strucker could win the war even with the knowledge he had obtained.

The Shadow volume approach used in Doom 3 permitted more realistic lighting and shadows, however this came at a price as it could not render soft shadows, and the engine was primarily good indoors.

This is due to many of the original PC levels being designed as more complex than those featured in the original Doom games, because, since the original PC version of Final Doom was released several years after them, potential players of the game had generally upgraded their machines to the point that they could play such levels.

The Doom of Mandos was placed on them so that they could not return to Valinor.

With an unexpected bequest of $ 5, 000 from his mother's life insurance, he purchased a top-of-the-line computer and a friend arranged for Internet service so they could play Doom online together.

The next night, Hart revealed that he put a clause in the contract that stated that the championship could change hands on a disqualification, thus making the Giant the new champion and Hart the manager of the Dungeon of Doom.

Furthermore, with the inclusion of two separate versions of each character's sprite set, the game allows up to two players to select the same character ( in Tower of Doom each of the characters could only be selected once ), effectively giving the game twelve " different " characters to choose from.

In Doom of the Darksword, Saryon asked Joram to create a setting for a piece of darkstone so that Saryon could wear it as an amulet.

Kull sought the crown because he believed he could use the army of Torranna to help him retake the crown of Valusia from Thulsa Doom.