14 DAY TRIAL // Who didn't play Doom? If there's anyone present that didn't play Doom please raise your hand and then slap yourself. Now, as much as we've all loved playing the game when it was first released (I didn't even own a computer back then, I had to skip school an go to a friend's house), it seems we didn't actually get everything from the creators. Don't get too excited, they're not rolling out a next-gen version of the original, but just some 31 music tracks that never made it into the game.
Doom co-creator John Romero is the one who has posted the selection of music that never made it into the original and primitive PC first-person shooter, as CVG reports. Here are the man's comments:
"I've been doing some digging around in the original Doom development directory since I'm working on consolidating all my data in a sane arrangement," says Romero in his blog. "The Doom source that was released years ago wasn't the nice raw development directory otherwise you would have all seen the NeXTSTEP DoomEd source, Doom map source files, and what I have here: unreleased Doom MIDI files.
There's a reason these weren't released - they're not very good, at least not as great as the music we actually shipped with the game. Some of the songs are just repetitive riffs. All the songs are named unXX.mid where XX is a number.
Some of the standout tracks are:
opening: this was an idea for the original Doom title screen song. un17: Would have actually fit in the game. un30: I like its funkiness. Reminds me of Wolfy. un36: I hated this song. I assigned it to e3m6 originally and everytime I ran that level I just cringed. I eventually removed it. un39: Would have been a cool intermission screen. un52: A better version of this song was in the game.
I think a few of the songs are early versions of some that were in the game. So for any of your Bobby Prince fans out there, here's more of the man's work."
You can download the 31 tracks right HERE (courtesy of John Romero). I'm currently waiting for them to be converted into MP3 files.