The player must indeed kill it in order to win the game. In the same level, John Romero's severed head on a stick features as the main boss creature, although the head is hidden behind the face of the final boss, and can only be approached with the noclip cheat. The voice is shifted down in pitch and is that of John Romero himself. This is stored in the Doom2 wad file as DSBOSSIT, and if reversed it becomes a voice saying "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero". In MAP30: Icon of Sin, after the player teleports into the huge room with the head of the final boss, a strange, unintelligible noise is played. John Romero's head on a stick Romero's head idspispopd is a reference to the SPISPOPD phenomenon which arose on Usenet before Doom's release.iddqd forms a reference to DQD, a supposed college fraternity called Delta-Q-Delta, for programmers which could only be joined by having at least one "Q", a common grade assigned for dropped courses, on one's transcript.iddt, besides consisting of Dave Taylor's initials, also causes those initials to appear as part of the player arrow on the automap.The message "Doesn't suck - GM" is a reference to his friend's defensiveness over the game being "not quite finished" at the time of its release. idchoppers references a game Choppers, created by a friend of Dave Taylor's for a state programming contest.Most of the cheat codes in Doom contain or otherwise trigger easter eggs as part of their name or function: While the presence of a swastika would have caused Doom to be banned in Germany (where the display of Nazi iconography in video games was illegal, regardless of context), and not just restricted to adults due to the game's graphic violence, according to developer John Romero, the symbol was removed after an objection to its presence was sent to him by a veteran of World War II. The swastika was removed in v1.4 of Doom. Alpha versions of this level, dated April 2 and May 22, 1993, included the same room, but did not have the swastika design. In released versions of Doom prior to v1.4, E1M4: Command Control contained a swastika design on the floor of one room, meant as an homage to Wolfenstein 3D.
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