This is a DHT4 exam file. Its place is in the doom/dht-exams directory.
The DOOM Honorific Titles
Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01
Anthony "zippy" Kerschen hereby conquers the title of DOOM 1 Speedy Gonzales.
Exam file name: D1SG-AMK.ZIP
Title Conquered: DOOM 1 Speedy Gonzales
Author: Anthony "zippy" Kerschen
Completion date: 1995 03 06
Game and version used: DOOM 1 v1.9
Log entry
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CHAL: D1SG AMK Anthony "zippy" Kerschen 17 29 19 FFL-LLL-LRL
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[email protected] (Anthony M Kerschen)
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Substitutions: Certainly NOT!
System used: 486/33, Logitech "TrackMan" mouse, GUS
Controls used: Keyboard + Mouse with the standard configurations.
Free interpretation: E3M9-hmp, from the normally excluded "hardest" set.
Comments: Even though time was the goal for this assignment, I went ahead
and did the dance first, "instant carnage" or not on every LMP.
My brother convinced me that a good speedy gonzales should finish with
some extra health (say 72%) to show that he could continue on at the
same pace for multiple levels without wearing down.
The hardest level was ironically the "easy" level, E1M7. I spent
more time on that one than any of the others. It's not quite perfect.
I wish I could have missed a few less shots, and dodged a few more
fireballs, but there isn't much time for finesse on this one so I
just tried to cause as much carnage as possible on the way through.
I used the shotgun because the chaingun takes too much time to pick up,
and the shotgun is almost as effective with good aim.
E2M9 was cake. I did the dance a few seconds late so I could try
to hide around a corner from the four barons, but they found me anyway.
Try to ignore the baron's fireball hitting me during the dance, it was
a pitiful and unsuccessful attempt to keep me from finishing with
200% health, 100% items, and 100% secrets. There isn't much time
for 100% kills, so I did a circle around the cacodemons to make them
dizzy, and headed straight for the exit.
E1M9 was pretty easy too once I figured out that doing the dance
first got all the former humans and sergents to fight among themselves
and out of my way later. Grabbing the chaingun early was a key too,
and I used up almost all my ammo by the end.
My free interpretation was E3M9 because it was listed as "hardest".
That might be true for a Doom Master, but a Speedy Gonzales can run
right past the cyberdemon, grab the cheese (rocket launcher and
invincibility, oh yes!), and be out of the room before he knows what
happened.
Author info: Who me? That's a boring subject. I'm in the Phoenix area
and I'm open for Deathmatch challenges, or comments about these LMPs.
Contact me via email if you wish.
