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PC Gamer
Wes Fenlon

In the early 1990s, Doom was famously installed on more PCs than Windows itself—but how many was that, actually?

The iconic Doom cover art, with conspiracy-mad Charlie from It's Always Sunny in front of it.

We all know Doom was so popular, so monumental, that it changed videogames forever. As a society, we're still obsessed with installing Doom on increasingly improbable devices, from pregnancy tests to vapes. But sometimes I run into an old factoid about Doom, some detail from its heyday that I'd forgotten, that still puts it in perspective.

Like this one: back in 1995, Doom was installed on more PCs than Windows.

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