New DOOM II Secret Discovered After 24 Years

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Video game secrets are the best. Especially old video game secrets. And especially original DOOM and DOOM II secrets.

That said, one player has discovered a brand-new secret in the latter game, 24 years after it first released.

The news comes way of series co-creator John Romero, who tweeted out on Friday that a YouTuber by the name of Zero Master had unearthed a secret that had been hiding for almost a quarter of a century.





As Mashable notes, the location involved with the secret isn't an unknown quantity. Modders have unlocked every area in the game long ago through rigorous tampering, however, Zero Master is the first to unearth the secret without cheating, or as the game intended for it to be found.

Meanwhile, the fact that it took 24 years for players to discover this secret raises the question: just how many secrets are out there -- not just in old games, but even new games -- that haven't been discovered? The DOOM community is infamously large and dedicated, and equal communities are rare. In other words, there are plenty of games over the years that have come and gone that don't possess the same community, and somewhere in these games are secrets that may never be discovered, ever. It's an interesting thing to think about.

For the DOOM community, this discovery is not only monumental because it's not often something new is discovered in the series, which has been combed over an innumerable amount of times, but this means that players can finally 100 percent DOOM II. It only took 24 years and a little bit of luck to get here.

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JastyPosted:

I love seeing when an old Easter egg is finally discovered... Can't believe it's been 24 yrs

ihave3armsPosted:

Pssssh I found that secret teleporter years ago I just didn't have a way of recording it to YouTube

CraigPosted:

Well, gg to the dev that put that in. I couldn't hide anything for 24 hours let alone years...

JimboPosted:

Wow that's actually insane. 24 years without anyone finding this out.

MazePosted:

Damn that is so cool. Love little secrets like this

TOXICPosted:

That's ridiculous lol, pretty cool to be the only one who has found it in 24 years jeezzzz.

XboxPosted:

That's awesome. It would be cool to get an achievement no one else has done or even discovered yet.

GodzookyPosted:

That's one heck of a secret, fair okay to the guy that discovered it