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later admitted that he made the WAD while addicted to marijuana. Not that you have that luxury at first, of course, because the cheat codes have also been changed for some reason. It combines the problems of flatness and bad gameplay with annoying sound effects, custom textures made up mostly of Doom textures repainted in eye-searing colors, and seemingly endless switch hunts that defy human logic, to the point that cheat codes may be required to solve certain levels. But his last known release, Nightmares of Loki 1999, takes the cake.

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He would qualify as Horrible with his Nightmares trilogy-the first of which was the second ever WAD rejected from the /idgames archive for quality reasons-and his early WAD pack, which is worse than most people's early WADs because its four WADs largely consist of the same flat and simplistic level repeated over and over again with different object and hazard placement each time.

seldom rise above the level of the community's earliest custom maps, even the most mediocre, because they mainly consist of rooms and corridors with little to no height variation and lousy gameplay consisting of shooting clumps of low-level monsters with a shotgun or chaingun. The text file claims that it's a 'MAJOR upgrade' from the now-missing v2.2, which just makes one wonder how bad the previous version was. The other two episodes are a slew of repeated levels that the author admits are terrible and yet still felt the need to include.

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The first episode's levels are poorly balanced (you get a BFG with full ammo on the first level with a tiny number of enemies), badly designed (you can often access the exit immediately), and little more than freehand scribbles-and yet one level manages to repeat itself, only with an edit that makes it easier to complete. It features horrible custom MS Paint graphics for the wall textures (slathered with smiley faces) and the HUD (a solid-yellow rectangle), and sound effects that are unfitting at best (breaking glass for the shotgun?) and annoying at worst (the author shouting things with sound filters applied).

The 1996 Doom WAD ' Boom v2.3 ' (not to be confused with the Boom source port) gained infamy with a review on the classic Doom Underground website declaring it to be the worst such addon the writer had ever seen.

note As this video reveals, this was another Doom WAD converted to one for Doom II, further highlighting the primitive quality of the converter they used

His experience was full of shoddy design, beautifully bad texture use, and bugs, including an example that defies explanation.

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A community member named Tarnsman started a series of livestreams on his Twitch account called 'The Great Shovelware Extravaganza' in which he plays through Maximum Doom's Doom II content, on which he spent over 60 hours. The Master Levels Disc, often accompanied by a book, containing 1,830 amateur WADs mostly for Doom II-with a great number of them being Doom WADs turned into Doom II WADs using a converter that includes Doom II monsters by randomly replacing exactly one monster each per level.

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Determined to beat these distributors at their own game, id Software included a disc known as Maximum Doom as bonus content to the Master Levels for Doom II.

Several YouTube users started a series called The D!Zone Experience to showcase some of the weirder WADs included. The back of the boxes often show stuff that isn't even in the game. A large chunk of them are horrible, most of them unfinished, and some won't even load correctly at all.

WizardWorks published D!ZONE, a series of CDs sold containing hundreds of WADs collected from both the BBSes of the time and the early Internet.

Their only redeeming quality was that they were helpful to some players who didn't have the resources to check out WADs online. They were invariably huge collections of WADs downloaded online and put on a disc without considerations of quality or permission from their designers.

In Doom's heyday, many shovelware discs were created by low-budget companies to cash in on its popularity.

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With over 15,000 Doom mods (and many more to come) on the /idgames archives, there are many horrible ones to go around as the ones below demonstrate.

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