One more fucking thing to blame Tom Cruise For!

Along with The Warriors I have recently also been consigned to bowels of hell (as if Norwich’s post-apocalyptic architecture wasn’t enough!) by playing Doom 3 on the Xbox. My recent computer game history (apart from the Alex Kid in Miracle World on the Sega Master Sytem II years) has been Doom on the PC, Half-Life on the PC and Halo on the Xbox so I do demand excellence from my first-person shooters. Doom 3 is great in parts and manages to make the funny versions of the original PC game genuinely terrifying. Anyway, I was looking up Doom on Wikipedia and came across this gem from Doom developer John Carmack:

"There is a scene in "The Color of Money" where Tom Cruse [sic] shows up at a pool hall with a custom pool cue in a case. "What do you have in there?" asks someone. "Doom." replied Cruse with a cocky grin. That, and the resulting carnage, was how I viewed us springing the game on the industry."

Christ is there no element of popular culture that gurning, possible murderer Cruise does not touch. Imagine! Doom 3 could have been called 'Sometimes you just gotta say fuck it' or 'You Complete Me' or 'Everybody Runs'.