The original Doom recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, making me feel quite old. As well as being an early blueprint for the FPS genre, id Software’s iconic shooter is also a popular modding playground. Sometimes, these mods harken back to even older gaming days.
Modders Gokuma and Kontra Kommando have crafted a love letter to an absolute classic ’80s slasher film. Specifically, they’ve turned Doom into Friday the 13th. More specifically still, they’ve based it on the NES adaptation, turning the 1989 side-scrolling game into a first-person shooter.
Set in Camp Crystal Lake – as you would expect – the mod brings back Jason Voorhees to “slaughter all those that would dare to step foot” into the camp. It’s up to Doomguy to stop him, presumably. Currently, there’s no full release date, but you can download the current beta from ModDB to try it out.
Life before Doom
It’s interesting to see this kind of mod. While it could have been just set in the Friday the 13th universe in any respect, the creators chose to breathe new life (resurrect, if you will) into a game that’s even older than Doom.
A lot has certainly changed over the decades for the plucky FPS. Thirty years is a long time in any form of media, but to see id Software’s legendary 1993 release keep coming back for more is a strong testament to just how important the game has been to the industry.
There are so many Doom mods out there, some of which change up the formula immensely, not to mention the countless ways of porting the game. There’s not really anything else like it in the video game world, so hats off to the studio for bringing it to us.
