Rumour Buster: No, The Original DOOM Doesn't Take Place In March 2022

He is right, Doom IS Timeless.

By the Way, his Level for Charity is pretty much Fun.

Silly Nintendo, don't they know? Doom is eternal.

I looked it up so you don't have to: the manual says 15th March 2022 is the last date the PREVIOUS manual for the force the Doomguy is part of was REVISED, and it is only brought up because the (styled as a military binder) SNES game manual is a NEW manual that supercedes the old one.

So, "this manual replaces the old one, which was put into use on July 1st 2021 and last updated on March 15th 2022" is what it says.

Some doofuses saw A DATE on the cover and decided that is the date the game takes place on when in fact it could be seven or seventeen years ago from the character's perspective.

@Noelemahc

Thank you for looking it up

Offtopic: This artwork is so bad! It looks like something a teenager painted, and I wonder if this was done intentionally to appeal to the targeted market.

@r0mer0 but, but it's awesome, in a heavy metal album cover way, particularly the uncropped original mural (which is vertical and which the SNES version rearranged awkwardly).

Does this not just sound like a typical media (MSM) response to being called out?

Can you do more rumour buster articles. The last one before the Wii rumor was all the way back in June

Now we need a rumour buster about the Switch "pro". It's time to put 5 years of stupid rumours to sleep.

@Rhaoulos,

Those rumors will never ever die, some will cling on to them as if their lives depended on it.

@Brad_Hogan I think maybe you're looking a little too deeply into this so called rumour. No origin was even mentioned.

There's 1.0.7 Update for DOOM 2 on Switch indeed, but... how can it help Ukraine if I don't have to pay a buck or two?
I was ready for paying for a Mini-DLC or something like this...

@r0mer0

As said, it is very Metal and great!

@Coxula
The Wad was made for the PC Version and is aviable through Romeros Store for 5€

Recently picked up Doom 3 since I only vaguely remember playing it when it came out and never tried the expansions. Still a pretty great game (especially for $2.50) and holds up well, just sorely wish it had gyro controls.

I see Caelid every time I see this image now.

@Slowdive Probably because the Super NES was one of Romero's favorite console. It was brought to the Super NES by passion though and not because of money. Though the game is rough by today's standard, you had to remember this was a work of magic back in the day. To be able to port the full game to a 16-Bit machine and still manage to make it playable within its limitation is unheard of at the time.

That is ID covering their behind.
They know it took place this month and they are nervous they will be blamed for the incoming Doom upon the planet.

I bet the date did come from someone on the team years ago and he just wasn't aware of it, or they've retroactively decided that the March 2022 date was no longer canon.

I love spreading misinformation on the internet though.