I remember a very very brief window of time when doom was a powerhouse of a game, and you needed a powerhouse PC.

And then within a year or two it became laughably the opposite. Suddenly Windows 95 came around, and any PC that madr PC sales explode. Suddenly the computers that people had were no longer PCs they bought in 1988, trying to run a game from 1993. Suddenly EVERYONE had modern hardware.

So “Will it run doom?” originated as a legitimate question you’d ask, because most peoples hardware was 5-10 years old by this point.

My dads PC that he bought in 1981 cost like 3k. Adjusted for inflation, that was like 10k today.

Yeah. People back then didn’t just buy computers every few years. If you bought one, it was a long term investment. One that most homes didn’t see as being worth it.

The combination of lower cost, higher spec PCs, running a brand new innovative OS, and complimented by this new fangled internet thing, well that helped sell a LOT of PCs in a short time. All of which could run doom easily.

So now “Will it run doom?” became a joke.

Then after some time, it became a challenge. Find the most obscure hardware to run this old popular game.