Month: October 2025

As a 90’s kid in the US, our family PC naturally had Doom and Doom II installed. My dad loved playing it with my brothers and I watching and providing support (mostly as an extra set of hands to quick-swap weapons and offer directions when he got lost in a level). Mom didn’t approve of exposing such pixilated violence to kids that were still in elementary school, but we all knew she was putting shotgun shells in demon skulls while we were at school.

This eventually led to one of my family’s most inspired Halloween ideas in 1995. We had a pretty standard setup of decorations (cobwebs, jack-o-lanterns, a few spooky lights and fake headstones) but my parents wanted to add some audio flair without having to spend extra. Do my dad decided, “Well, Doom involves demons and sounds pretty tense and scary.” So he decides to boot it up on our Windows 95 setup, cranked the small speakers as loud as they would go, and opened the front door so all visitors could hear the demon slaughter within.

The idea ended up being a huge hit with the kids and parents visiting our house that year. It’s also given me some ideas for using Doom audio for future Halloween setups.

Really need someone to hop on multiplayer on Doom 2016 for the trophys

Being Halloween let’s talk about the literally darkest entry in the series.

The light amp visor

Classic Doom always had darkness in levels and even a power up that complemented it (and stuff like switches or line triggers that change lightning).

So i wonder why they didn’t think of having the Light Amp Visor as a power up, like an excuse for the player to have moments where they don’t need to use the flash light.

Maybe because even in classic Doom, people saw it as a useless power up since D64 only used it one time and i think either Plutonia or TNT had none of it.

I like to think it could’ve had some extra features like body heat vision to see demons behind walls or to even see secret hidden text (I know Duke 3D did this with the glasses and some text in that Beach expansion)

Spectre

The original “ghost” enemy besides maybe the Lost Soul

Somehow not in the most horror focused Doom title.

I did have some ideas on how a modern Spectre could be, specially as distinct from Pinkes in the same way Hellknights became distinct from Barons

• Have the Spectre’s design be like the D3 pinky but replace cyberlegs with a fleshy tail, so they’re more ghost-like

• Make them transparent and go through walls, projectiles and other stuff

• Maybe even a melee bite that attacks health directly and ignores armor

• Have a mechanic so that they can either charge or simply bite when they’re fully visible AND solid

• Basically, they’re real ghosts most of the time but when they’re about to attack, they drop the ghost nature (both visually and mechanically) to attack

• The solid/100% visible state is when you can attack them, so they’re vulnerable like that

• Also, they could have a green color as both a D64 Spectre homage (Who gets visible when hit) and because, you know, PINKIES are the Pink ones

• This mechanic also suits the “green light” stuff from modern Doom but it’s put in a horror context

I guess that’s it?