# I got the yellow key! Or, life sucks without the combat shotgun. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411 "2008-01-29T03:26:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/1 "2008-01-29T03:26:05Z")
I found an install of Doom 95 Shareware that will run on my XP machine. I haven’t been able to get Doom II to work or Doomsday to network with XP. While I was courting Mrs. Plant we played Doom II over modem between Arkansas and New Hampshire. No M16 patch, either. I hate running backwards and popping the demons thrice instead of once with the combat shotgun. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/2 "2008-01-29T03:39:36Z")
That was one badass game, wasn’t it? I remember playing a lot of Heretic. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/3 "2008-01-29T03:43:08Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I remember playing a lot of Heretic. [/QUOTE] Man, I hated those damn bats! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/4 "2008-01-29T03:48:52Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I found an install of Doom 95 Shareware that will run on my XP machine. I haven’t been able to get Doom II to work or Doomsday to network with XP. While I was courting Mrs. Plant we played Doom II over modem between Arkansas and New Hampshire. No M16 patch, either. I hate running backwards and popping the demons thrice instead of once with the combat shotgun. :rolleyes: [/QUOTE] Not sure it’ll fix your networking issues, but you should be able to run Doom or Doom II in DOSBox. [Rip and Tear!](http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/5 "2008-01-29T04:10:47Z")
Damn, I was so hoping so very much that this was a thread about **Fallout**. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/6 "2008-01-29T04:24:23Z")
DOOOOOOOOOOMMM!! I still play it and Quake religiously. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/7 "2008-01-29T04:40:59Z")
[QUOTE=Jeff] Damn, I was so hoping so very much that this was a thread about **Fallout**. [/QUOTE] Bah. The .223 pistol was _way_ better. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/8 "2008-01-29T06:54:29Z")
My DOOM skillz got me $50 in a small tournament at a local computer shop. I remember in the opening round, I owned both my opponents. It was Doom 2 map 7. I had the BFG and I came across the two newbs, freshly respawned, pecking at each other with their pistols. I shot my BFG at point blank and splattered their guts against the wall, and the whole crowd erupted in laughter! The “final” round was a later level that was very bad for deathmatches. (I forget which one). I found the rocket launcher and camped the main hall for the last five minutes. It was a landslide victory. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/9 "2008-01-29T08:31:29Z")
Ah, Doom. The game so big you had to download the shareware in four chunks on separate days or the sysop would kick you off. 🙂 I think I spent about ninety percent of my teenage years sleeping, watching TNG, and playing Doom. That’s why I’m such a hit with the ladies. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/10 "2008-01-29T08:34:25Z")
[QUOTE=CoG888] The “final” round was a later level that was very bad for deathmatches. (I forget which one). I found the rocket launcher and camped the main hall for the last five minutes. It was a landslide victory. [/QUOTE] n00b. Campers suck. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/11 "2008-01-29T15:06:57Z")
I’m down with the yellow key. And I hate those !@#!@ bats. But when did [Adventure](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_%28Atari_2600%29) get a combat shotgun?! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/12 "2008-01-29T15:18:16Z")
[QUOTE=asterion] Not sure it’ll fix your networking issues, but you should be able to run Doom or Doom II in DOSBox. [Rip and Tear!](http://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/) [/QUOTE] Or use [Zdoom](http://zdoom.org/News). Or if you want the pretties turned on, [Doomsday.](http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/deng/deng-inst-1.8.3.exe?download) Once you have Doom running on a modern platform,\* then get your ass a copy of [Oblige](http://oblige.sourceforge.net/) for your random doom level generating goodness.\*\* - Which should also fix your networking problems. Zdoom, at least, is pretty easy to network. \*\* I play a hell of a lot of this. It’s replaced Slige as my “take a 15 minute break from whatever I’m doing” tool. My only gripe is that the latest update, while adding a lot of cool detail, and fixing a lot of things with the Hexen/Heretic support, also removed the brutal traps and monster ambushes. I miss those. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/13 "2008-01-29T15:34:21Z")
Doomsday is great, mouse look like a real shooter, 🙂 but it rapidly loses track of the other player on a network. The latest version I couldn’t get to install. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/14 "2008-01-29T15:36:30Z")
I remember my first day playing Doom. From a few years playing Mario Bros. I suddenly graduated to putting an imps chest through his back with a shotgun 😃 Infuriatingly it was installed on the day Dad was heading up to an autojumble with me and I’d only just reinstalled the CDROM drive after the lead had come loose in transit. My sister gleefully picked up where I’d left off, Mum didn’t approve. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/15 "2008-01-29T15:41:26Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Doomsday is great, mouse look like a real shooter, 🙂 but it rapidly loses track of the other player on a network. The latest version I couldn’t get to install. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I just threw it in because I knew people would mention it. Personally, you’ll have to pry Zdoom from my cold dead hands. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/16 "2008-01-29T16:06:05Z")
I just played a little of Fallout before I showed up here. I had to stop, because it’s just to old. I did play Doom a few weeks ago. I didn’t even apply the cheats. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/17 "2008-01-29T16:13:07Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] I did play Doom a few weeks ago. I didn’t even apply the cheats. [/QUOTE] Wimps use cheats. Real Doomers play it all the way through without dying. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-the-yellow-key-or-life-sucks-without-the-combat-shotgun/435411/18 "2008-01-29T19:12:17Z")
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright] Bah. The .223 pistol was _way_ better. [/QUOTE] Real men kill deathclaws with supersledges.