Bill Gates Doom

raij · 783.2K views · 2006-03-18 · 3:16

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Overview

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.

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Cited mostly as a retro-tech curiosity about Microsoft's push into PC gaming, and sometimes as a joke.

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Game history & retro gaming Tech company stories & documentaries

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bombcar · 2024-02 · Reference
> 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.
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Comevius · 2022-10 · Reference
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]
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Barrin92 · 2020-08 · Joke / meme
>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
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