Although most users did not purchase the registered version, over one million copies have been sold, and the popularity helped the sales of later games in the Doom series that were not released as shareware.

To promote Windows 95, Bill Gates, aware of the video game's popularity, showcased a video presentation while digitally superimposed into Doom.

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.

) Such was the popularity of Id Software's Doom and Quake games that, rather than work from scratch, other developers licensed the core portions of the software and designed their own graphics, characters, weapons and levels — the " game content " or " game assets.

Due to its popularity and success, Doom II was later released for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, the Tapwave Zodiac in 2004, and on Xbox Live Arcade in 2010.

In 1662 he published The Day of Doom or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment, a " doggerel epitome of Calvinistic theology ", according to the anthology, Colonial Prose and Poetry ( 1903 ), that " attained immediately a phenomenal popularity.

The popularity of CCD imaging among amateurs has led to large numbers of web sites being written by individuals about their images and equipment.

The popularity and reputation of the cricket series has led to other sports or games, and / or their followers, using the name " Ashes " for contests between England and Australia.

Other writers acknowledge his extremely high popularity at home, but suppose his occasionally rigid and even irrational political loyalties and convictions contributed greatly to Spartan decline, notably his unremitting hatred of Thebes, which led to Sparta's humiliation at the Battle of Leuctra and thus the end of Spartan hegemony.

Speed improved with the introduction of 1200 bit / s modems in the early 1980s, and this led to a substantial increase in popularity.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The popularity of Bubble Bobble led Taito ( or its licensees ) to port to many home computers and video game consoles.

Ditka's success and popularity in Chicago has led him to land analyst roles on various American football pregame shows.

Disco's popularity led many non-disco artists to record disco songs at the height of its popularity.

The popularity of the comic strip within the corporate sector has led to the Dilbert character being used in many business magazines and publications ( he has made several appearances on the cover of Fortune ).

Her popularity as a radio performer and vocalist, which included a second hit record " My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time ", led directly to a career in films.

The continued popularity of his 1971 Brady Bunch appearance led to his being cast as himself in The Brady Bunch Movie.

The special popularity of his longer films, which were several minutes long from 1899 onwards ( while most other films were still only a minute long ), led other makers to start producing longer films.

The period after the American Occupation led to a rise in diversity in movie distribution thanks to the increased output and popularity of the film studios of Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, and Toei.

In a bid to secure the loyalty of his troops and his own popularity with them and with the Roman people, he led them on a spectacular but brutal raid against the Marsi, a German tribe on the upper Ruhr river, in which he massacred much of the tribe.

The popularity of this variation of the gin and tonic has led to the establishment of Gin Tónica bars, in which customers can choose their preferred gin, tonic, and garnish from a menu.

This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.

At the same time the rising popularity of Firefox, its status of the default browser in major distribution and the overwhelming number of its extensions led to decline of Galeon's user base.

Even Julian's intellectual friends and fellow pagans were of a divided mind about this habit of talking to his subjects on an equal footing: Ammianus Marcellinus saw in that only the foolish vanity of someone " excessively anxious for empty distinction ", whose " desire for popularity often led him to converse with unworthy persons ".

The brand's popularity has led to it being used as a generic term for gelatin dessert across the U. S. and Canada.

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

The popularity led to the founding of local Lindy Hop dance communities in many cities.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

Ohloh, a web service founded in 2004 and launched in 2006, monitors the development activity in the free software community, providing detailed metrics and quantitative analyses on the growth and popularity of projects and programming languages.

As a result of this popularity, Geoffrey's Historia Regum Britanniae was enormously influential on the later medieval development of the Arthurian legend.

Arab-plan mosques were constructed mostly under the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties ; subsequently, however, the simplicity of the Arab plan limited the opportunities for further development, the mosques consequently losing popularity.

Because of its popularity and recognition, the campus was visited by President Barack Obama on February 10, 2011, where he praised the development in wireless technology and promoted a National Wireless Initiative to bring high-speed Internet to 98 % of the U. S. by 2016.

The increasing popularity of Windows prompted Microsoft to shift its development focus from cooperating on OS / 2 with IBM to building a franchise based on Windows.

In 1987, enduring fan interest, partially preserved by the first four installments of the Star Trek film franchise from 1979 to 1986, those films ' popularity led to the development of the Star Trek sequel Star Trek: The Next Generation, which became extremely successful, and led to the later sequels Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and finally Star Trek: Enterprise, which ended in 2005.

The improvement in traction and performance was so immense that from the wheel's release in 1972 the popularity of skateboarding started to rise rapidly again, causing companies to invest more in product development.

Up until the 1990s, SLR was the most advanced photographic preview system available, but the recent development and refinement of digital imaging technology with an on-camera live LCD preview screen has overshadowed SLR's popularity.

By 2003, while the popularity of Linux ( and hence the installed base of X ) surged, X. Org remained inactive, and active development took place largely within XFree86.

By 2002, while Linux's popularity, and hence the installed base of X, surged, X. Org was all but inactive ; active development was largely carried out by XFree86.

In the U. S., the development of the National parks system and the growing popularity of vacationing saw a similar development of patch collecting.

A variety of issues such as sideband and harmonic emissions, broadband sources, and the increasing popularity of electrical switching devices and their victims, resulted in a steady development of standards and laws.

In North America, the American lobster did not achieve popularity until the mid-19th century, when New Yorkers and Bostonians developed a taste for it, and commercial lobster fisheries only flourished after the development of the lobster smack, a custom-made boat with open holding wells on the deck to keep the lobsters alive during transport.

“ Seneca has been claimed as a forerunner of radio drama because his plays were performed by readers as sound plays, not by actors as stage plays ; but in this respect Seneca had no significant successors until 20th-century technology made possible the widespread dissemination of sound plays .” Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s.

Its development was instigated by ATV producer Renee Goddard, who wanted to produce a programme that could challenge the popularity among children of the BBC's science fiction series Doctor Who ( 1963 – 89 ; 1996 ; 2005 – present ).

Poetry and literature profited from the rising popularity and development of the ci poetry form.

With the development of chinoiserie in Europe, Chinese fireworks began to gain popularity around the mid-17th century.

This played a major role in the popularity and quick development of the quartz watch, which in less than a decade was dominant in the watch market, nearly ending an almost 100 years of mechanical wristwatch heritage.

Because of its popularity, the typeface has been influential in the subsequent development of a number of serif typefaces both before and after the start of the digital-font era.

The popularity of the game led to development of its numerous ports to other systems, including most recently ports to the PlayStation Portable, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 in 2006 and 2007, and the creation of several sequels.

In 19th century Western scholarship, the hypothesis of matriarchy representing an early stage of human development — now mostly lost in prehistory, with the exception of some so-called primitive societies — enjoyed popularity.

Larsson's popularity increased considerably with the development of colour reproduction technology in the 1890s, when the Swedish publisher Bonnier published books written and illustrated by Larsson and containing full colour reproductions of his watercolours, e. g. A Home.