You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and I'd like to tell you a bit about the

podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC.

It's a massive area but I'd sum it up as stories to help us make sense of the forces shaping the world.

What podcasting does is give us the space and the time to take brilliant BBC journalism

and tell amazing compelling stories that really get behind the headlines.

And what I get really excited about is when we find a way of drawing you into a subject

you might not even have thought you were interested in.

Whether it's investigations, science, tech, politics, culture, true crime, the environment,

you can always discover more with a podcast on BBC Sounds.

Thank you for downloading the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Kurt Brooks and I'm taking you back to December 1993 when a new video game burst onto the scene and changed the industry forever.

I went to Galway in the west of Ireland and visited the office of legendary game designer John Romero to talk about the release of Doom. Hello?

Hi joke, it is Kurt. How are you?

How are you? How are you doing?

We were getting phone calls in the office asking where it's at and we're like,

how do they find our phone number but how they know

that we're almost about to ship the game. On the 10th of December 1993 Doom was

released on Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system. Developed by I'd software, Doom saw players take control of an unnamed soldier

stationed on a futuristic military base on Mars. After an experiment goes wrong, a portal to the underworld is opened and demonic entities escape.

The player must then dispatch the demons before they can reach and take over the earth.

Doom is known by gamers around the world for its rocking

soundtrack, ferocious gameplay and over-the-top gore. Unsurprisingly for someone whose

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