Are these drums sampled?

It's certainly a highly-produced sound, most likely triggered or even programmed IMO. Not a natural drum sound at all.
 
I remember this!

Yes, they are. The most obvious example lies with the cymbals. Listen to the crash - it's the same every time.
 
It's sequenced, so yes, those are samples. On top of it, some dynamics were added (poorly) to try and give it a natural feel. They don't.

Bermuda
 
Man, that is one piece of MIDI music that really hits my childhood. I loved that game as a kid.

All the doom music was created on a keyboard as I recall from something I read back then. It had to run on very basic hardware as dedicated sound boards of the day were expensive and even so, not very robust.

This sounds like the same midi progressions, with better sounds applied than we had back in the early 90's.
 
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