Theatre of Doom
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| Theatre of Doom | |
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 The starting area
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| Author | James Wilson |
| Port | Vanilla Doom |
| IWAD | Doom |
| Year | 1994 |
| Link | Doomworld/idgames |
This level occupies the map slot E1M1. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E1M1.
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Theatre of Doom is a single-level PWAD for Doom that was released in July 1994. It was designed by James Wilson (Shade). The level is reminiscent of a movie theater, with multiple screening rooms in various sizes. The level is an early example of a semi-realistic map with the usage of doomcute designs.
Contents
Walkthrough[edit]
Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.
Essentials[edit]
Other points of interest[edit]
Secrets[edit]
- Ahead of you at the start is a shotgun, whose sector counts as a secret. (sector 483)
- The far north-east of the opening area has a door leading to a shotgun guy, a cacodemon, 4 shotgun shells, a medikit, and an armor. (sector 489)
- The far north-west of the opening area has a door leading to a cacodemon, a stimpack, a barrel, and a backpack. (sector 492)
- The first indoor room has doors to the west and east leading to small rooms. The eastern room has a secret door on the south wall (marked with a different texture) leading to six light amplification visors and a medikit. (sector 55)
- In the west is a theatre with a rocket launcher behind the screen. There is a secret door to the south (marked with a green texture) leading to four boxes of rockets. (sector 279)
- Run up the stairs east of #5's theatre and continue towards the yellow key area. A small lift has briefly lowered (it can be lowered repeatedly), allowing access to a secret door to a megaarmor and a soul sphere. There are three secrets here. (sector 300)
- See #7. (sector 308)
- See #7. (sector 495)
- Head east from the first indoor room - the second door to the south is a yellow door leading to a rising staircase. Go through the door at the top - there is a secret door in the north of this room leading to a chainsaw. (sector 218)
- Go past the door to the room with the crusher near the red key - there is a secret door on the west wall which opens on shooting, leading to six energy cell packs, a plasma rifle, and a medikit. (sector 414)
- The room north of the blue key room has a secret door to the south-west leading to a partial invisibility. (sector 127)
Bugs[edit]
Line 452, a one-sided linedef, was given a manual door action, meaning it will crash the game in vanilla (or Chocolate Doom) upon use.
Demo files[edit]
Areas / screenshots[edit]
The main hall
Cinema view
Smaller theater room, near the yellow key
Yellow key area
Red key area
One of the various fake exits
Blue key area
The exit area
Speedrunning[edit]
Routes and tricks[edit]
Current records[edit]
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:
| Run | Time | Player | Date | File | Notes |
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| NM 100S | |||||
| UV -fast | |||||
| UV -respawn | |||||
| UV Tyson | |||||
| UV pacifist |
The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on November 30, 2021.
Deathmatch[edit]
Player spawns[edit]
This level contains nine spawn points:
- facing east. (thing 597)
- facing north. (thing 598)
- facing north. (thing 599)
- facing north. (thing 600)
- facing north. (thing 601)
- facing north. (thing 602)
- facing south. (thing 603)
- facing north. (thing 617)
- facing north. (thing 618)
Statistics[edit]
Map data[edit]
| Things | 729 |
| Vertices | 1867* |
| Linedefs | 2028 |
| Sidedefs | 3093 |
| Sectors | 498 |
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1563.
Things[edit]
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:
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