Haldor Zaake-Hertling, who bought the remaining box off of eBayĪction Doom began life in 2001 as a simple weapons mod that fired projectiles instead of bullets, and went by the name Metal Slug Doom."Scuba" Steve Browning, who kept one for himself.Mike "Mancubus II" Lightner, for hosting the website.Julian Aubourg, for creating the Action Doom music.Mike "Cyb" Watson, for his help on scripting.The remaining 6 boxes were awarded to members who contributed to or others. Owen "Sarge Baldy" Lloyd and James "Doom Anomaly" McChesney were the two recipients of boxes. The first two people to complete a fake pre-order form received a box. Third place was Ben "Benj" Marshall, who received a t-shirt.Ī third unofficial contest was held on the website.Second place was Maximillian Augustus "BlackFish" Daley, who received an Action Doom box.First place was Ralph "Ralphis" Vickers, who received a copy of the Action Doom box and a t-shirt.The second contest was a High Score contest with three places. James "Doom Anomaly" McChesney was the winner of the t-shirt, and the results of that can be found here. The first contest encouraged people to submit their own advertisement and say how much they loved Action Doom. The 10 boxes were given out in various contests the author held through Doomworld's forums.
In addition to countless silly "ads", the author also went as far as to make three t-shirts which had the Action Doom logo, and even more extreme lengths to create a DVD case with a fully assembled instruction manual, high gloss cover, and printed CD. All the ads are chronicled here on the Action Doom webpage. Coupled with the hopes of invigorating the stagnant Doom community, the author tried to generate as much hype and interest while showing almost no preliminary screenshots or information, leaving those items up to the community's imagination.Ī prequel, Action Doom 2: Urban Brawl was released in September 2008.įrom late October 2003 until its release on July 3, 2004, the author ran a series of advertisements on his blog on Doomworld. The purpose of Action Doom was to not only create a modification for Doom, but to invent and market an imaginary product with the intent of simulating the environment surrounding the golden era of gaming of the early 90s. The author of Action Doom dedicated a significant portion of time to creating blogged "advertisements" and held contests for various events to give away prizes that related to Action Doom. The project was spearheaded by Stephen "Scuba Steve" Browning with additional help from Mike "Cyb" Watson, Julian Aubourg, and Kara "Nanami" Rader. Action Doom is a total conversion that attempts to simulate 2D sidescroller shoot-em-up gameplay in Doom's first person perspective.
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