Gamlet Trivia #11 — 2026-07-13

The answer was Doom — For years the industry called every game like it a clone of this one, until 'first-person shooter' finally stuck..

That day's clues

1. 🔴👹🔫☠️
2. Uploaded to a university FTP server in 1993 for DOS, with SNES and PlayStation ports following — hobbyists have since run it on almost anything with a screen.
3. The first-person shooter that defined the genre: strafe through demon-packed corridors on a Mars base, hunting red, blue and yellow keycards.
4. Built by a tiny id Software team in Texas on engine tech John Carmack wrote.
5. By some mid-90s estimates its shareware episode was installed on more PCs than Windows itself — Microsoft courted the studio to prove the OS could run it.
6. Anagram: MOOD

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