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'Doom': Lock and Load on This Free, Pixelated Reboot

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As much as we love new gaming experiences, sometimes we hanker for the classic games of our distant youth. Luckily, many of these can be revisited in browser-based iterations. This week, we'll take a look at timeless classics -- like Monday's 'Pac-Man', Tuesday's 'Lemmings', Wednesday's 'Duke Nukem' and yesterday's 'Civilization' -- that are always worth wasted productivity. If you haven't played these in a few years, or if (heaven forbid) you've never undertaken them, then what are you waiting for?

What can we say about 'Doom' that does it justice? It's one of the most addictive games ever made, it revolutionized how we play (essentially cementing the First-Person Shooter as the most popular genre in gaming), and its first person run-and-gun gameplay makes it the perfect healthy outlet for workplace aggression. The controls in the first episode of this Flash version are similar to the original PC iteration; you use the arrow keys for movement, the space bar for shooting, R for opening doors and the tab key for accessing the game's auto-map. The only thing missing is the pumping MIDI soundtrack, although the lack of background music does make the screams of our dying enemies all the more satisfying.

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