Any discussion of the history of Doom WADs eventually arrives back at a single map from 1994 called Doomsday of UAC. But you might know it better simply by its filename: UAC_DEAD. Leo Martin Lim’s Doomsday of UAC is one of the earliest and most famous WADs ever made. If you can put on your 1994 glasses, it’s not hard to see why. The Doom community was ravenous for good custom content in that first year after the game’s release, and Doomsday was probably the best you could find. It towered, head and shoulders above the crowd, with a combination
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Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the second WAD I’ve reviewed by a creator who is no longer with us. And that’s two too many. Just this past Sunday, news made it to Doomworld that Ty Halderman, one of the most prolific and beloved members of our community, had died on July 31st. I never knew Ty myself, but everyone knows just how vital he was to Doom’s legacy — and to the longevity of its modding scene. If not for his efforts to archive and catalog Doom WADs over the last twenty years, who knows where we would be now? I almost certainly