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id Software's second FPS only brought in $5,000, and the studio might not have made Wolfenstein and Doom if the game hadn't made a dev fall out of his chair: 'That was just one of the craziest things in a videogame I'd ever seen'

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id Software
Role · Developer / Publisher
Active · 1990–2025
Latest · Doom: The Dark Ages
Top genres · fps, platformer, adventure
930 articles 274 writers 63 games
Doom
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Doom
Active · 1994–2026
Latest · Doom: The Dark Ages
Top genres · fps, arcade, rpg
786 articles 243 writers 30 games
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Wolfenstein
Active · 1981–2019
Latest · Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Top genres · fps, adventure, rpg
264 articles 145 writers 22 games
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