The Official Doom Survivor's Strategies & Secrets

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The Official Doom Survivor's Strategies & Secrets is a book by Jonathan Mendoza and published by Sybex Inc. (ISBN 978-0782115468). The book is Doom's official strategy guide and was developed with assistance from id. The book was sold with two floppy disks containing shareware Doom v1.25.

The book is divided into several sections:

• Basic training: covers basics about how to play Doom, what weapons and powerups can be found in the game, monsters that can be encountered, and strategic tips.
• Kicking interdimensional butt: contains level maps of each level in registered Doom, including each of the secrets.
• Intelligence briefing: how to play Doom multiplayer, technical information and interviews with the game's developers.
• Appendices: Troubleshooting how to set up Doom, cheat codes and information about add-on resources.