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Doom = 1993.
Descent = 1995.
Doom II was already out by the time Descent came out and no Descent was never as popular as either Doom.
I remember when Doom hit the scene. I saw it being demo'd at a local Radio Shack on the TRS80. It was the entire reason I switched to IBM based gaming (now known as Windows platform). Prior to that I was a C64 and Amiga gamer, and Doom was not available for those platforms. In fact, Doom was the entire reason I learned all about networking computers together using serial ports at first and then token ring networks, which eventually launched my training into modern network topology and security.
I then remember when Descent was released. It was a good game, but it did not trump Doom in terms of popularity. Doom and Wolfenstein and Hexen to some extent, were the shooter kings of the time.