Doom 64

Doom 64 is coming to the Nintendo Switch on November 22

Bethesda’s love affair with Nintendo continues as the game publisher announced that the retro classic Doom 64 is coming to the Nintendo Switch on November 22.

Pete Hines, Bethesda’s head of marketing, made the announcement on Nintendo’s latest Direct livestream.

Midway Games originally debuted Doom 64 in March 1997 on the Nintendo 64. The game was released in cooperation with id Software (now owned by Bethesda).

Doom 64’s plot focuses on events following the original Doom trilogy (Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom).

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.