More (though not much more) information on the port: I know for the longest time that Doom was incredibly obscure there, though it seems to've picked up in recognition at least a bit from Eternal, and Japanese Vtuber Korone Inugami's steams of Doom. Additionally I wonder how exactly this port came to be legally with the guys at id and all that. PC as a game platform was rapidly declining at the time of Doom due to the immense popularity and market dominance of the Super Famicom, though I can't say for certain why the SFC/PS1 ports also flew under the radar. I find this interesting not just because of its obscurity, but also because FPS's never took off in Japan until just a couple of years ago as of this post. Ported by a company named Infinity, it was published by Imagineer just a few months after the initial US DOS release, and as you can see here it kind of sucks. I only just found out yesterday that Doom was released in Japan for their then-popular PC-9800 series of computers (MS-DOS did horribly in Japan), probably best known internationally for the first five Touhou games. Everyone talks about the different console ports of Doom 1 and 2, but rarely those to different PC architectures of the time.
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