Brand new Doom for... SNES?

[A Black Falcon]

Still, we're arguing which piece of garbage we'd rather eat at that point. 

... Garbage?  What in the world?  Absolutely not!  SNES Doom is pretty good.  I looked it up on my collection list and yeah, I have it at an A- grade.  It's a great game.  (I have the 32X version at a C grade.  That's maybe a bit harsh but between that it's missing twice as many levels as the SNES and that the music is terrible... eh, deserved.)

  On a related note, circle-strafing isn't about being able to strictly run in a huge circle around groups of enemies.  Simply being able to change direction WHILE strafing is all I ask for, and lacking that made navigating around obstacles frustrating.

But in Doom for DOS you can't circle-strafe, right?  I mean, you move with the arrow keys and strafe in a line with Alt, with Control for fire and Space for opening things.  That's the only way I've ever played it.  Maybe there's some way to do it I don't know about?  I don't think I've ever even finished the first episode of Doom for PC.  Booting it up now I see a save file in level 1-5, that's probably about as far as I got most likely.  And I've definitely never played any Windows versions of Doom for any amount of time, only the DOS versions with arrow key movement and control/alt/space for the controls.  So yeah, circle-strafing in Doom is barely something I've done... that's something for slightly newer FPSes once separate movement and aiming was a thing... and sure, that kind of control scheme has been hacked into Doom later, but I've never wanted to try playing it that way.

Though I have tried some of the newer console ports, those have dual-analog control schemes so I'm sure I did it a bit there, that's how dual analog controls work after all.  I didn't stick with it though and barely played those.


Oh, I didn't have Doom for PC in the '90s but did have Hexen.  Good game, though it's very hard.  I most certainly didn't finish it.