Bill Gates Doom
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A short clip from Microsoft's 1995 Judgement Day event in which Bill Gates is inserted into Doom as a promo for Windows 95 and DirectX gaming. It was never publicly released at the time.
Cited mostly as a retro-tech curiosity about Microsoft's push into PC gaming, and sometimes as a joke.
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Surely you can't mention this without the Bill Gates "Windows 95 will revolutionize PC gaming" video. [VIDEO]
>You can go to reddit right now and find a video of some right wing whacko shooting someone to death on the front page. when I was growing up it wasn't just right-wing whackos glorying violence, it was Bill Gates himself dressed up in a trench coat advocating to 'clean up the neighbourhood' [VIDEO] You may be underestimating the weirdness of the internet and the culture around it in the 90s, reddit looks harmless compared to what I saw when I was young when kids on the schoolyard were talking about rotten com
Microsoft even ported Doom to Windows 95, though it could also run the DOS version. Bill Gates even appeared in the game in a DirectX promotional video. [VIDEO]
> While I still have you, did you know that Bill Gates once digitally superimposed himself into DOOM to promote Windows 95? No, no I hadn't. [VIDEO] Different era.