Show & tell us about your physical DOOM collection

[kaleb.]

4 hours ago, famicommander said:

It's a freaking cardboard box. Video games are for playing and hoarding idiots like that guy in the video above are just driving up the prices for actual gamers with their shelf porn they never have any intention of playing.

yea fuck people for buying things they want...lol

[VGA]

4 hours ago, famicommander said:

It's a freaking cardboard box. Video games are for playing and hoarding idiots like that guy in the video above are just driving up the prices for actual gamers with their shelf porn they never have any intention of playing.

You don't need physical boxes for games, do you? It seems to me, boxes for old games are for collectors nowadays.

[Loud Silence]

Now i recognize Tom Hall under Romero.

[nrofl]

1 hour ago, Loud Silence said:

@Linguica I recognize only Romero's sign. Who are owners of other signs'?

center to the right might be Jay Wilbur's and the bottom one is Tom Hall

Edited September 17, 2019 by Rhebiz

[Loud Silence]

Top left must be Donna Jackson.

[Chezza]

@famicommander must hate museums, preserving old limited items showing off.

[famicommander]

1 hour ago, Chezza said:

@famicommander must hate museums, preserving old limited items showing off.

If some idiot put a bunch of perfectly playable video games in a museum just to be stared at in their boxes, sure, I'd hate it.

 

A painting exists to be stared at. It can fully be enjoyed in a museum setting.

 

You don't put a copy of Spaceballs on DVD on display in a museum. You freaking watch the movie. You don't put a copy of Animal Farm on display in a museum, you crack it open and read it.

[Doomkid]

I have well over 200 cartridges for old game systems, I actually have played all of them over the years though (although some not to completion) but I still kept the carts after I was more or less totally done with some of them, they're all on a shelf downstairs. Do I qualify for the hoarding fuckface asshole who drives prices up awards?

 

I also have a VASTLY SUPERIOR box to linguica:

 

 

-Doesn't contain Doom2

-Loads of shovelware maps that are unplayable

-Only signed by Romero rather than the whole crew

-Box is even more bashed up

 

BOOOOOOM! beat that!!!!

 

Oh I also intend to keep my Sigil box unopened for a long ass time like a proper crater-brained POS since I had already played it a bunch by the time the box arrived

 

[WadArchive]

or prices/demand goes up because those that had those system or games when they are younger want to go back and play them for nostalgic reasons. Or now have some disposable income to be able to buy the games when previously they didn't.

 

why else are all the console companies producing mini consoles? I doubt it is because of the collectors out there

[CyberDreams]

It's basically whatever's hot at the moment. Classic FPS games are really hot right now (well so is anything retro really) so anything Doom related is expensive as balls. I don't want to start a big collection but i do want to own at least The Ultimate Doom and Doom II but i can't find a box that's complete with everything and in decent condition for a reasonable buy it now price on ebay. I don't ever bid on anything so i doubt i'll find one anytime soon, especially since i don't work (that means that i don't have a lot of money lol). The Macintosh versions seem to be cheaper though so maybe i'll pick up one of those (although i wouldn't be able to actually play it).

 

I did manage to finally buy Doom 3 and Resurrection of Evil CIB for PC in nice condition but those are easy to find and really cheap as i really do like Doom 3.

 

@OneDoomedSpaceMarineBut yeah, to store your box just make sure it's not in a humid or wet place or in direct sunlight. Direct sunlight will fade it over time. Just use common sense really and it'll be fine :)

 

I do sort of have a hatred (as well as jealousy obviously lol) for people who just collect games and don't play them. I kind of understand it though as i do want to start collecting just mainly Doom related items but i don't want to collect every damned boxed PC game that is out there. But most of those big time collectors know other people who have the items so they get hooked up or they find them for dirt cheap so it's not like they actually paid the going rate for them. How they manage to actually find things in thrift stores i'll never know as i can never find anything worth of value at my local Goodwills ect (i stopped going last year but my dad tells me that they still never have anything). People still find CRT's and stuff at certain ones. They haven't had CRT's at mine in 3-4 years or more as they stopped accepting them because no one was buying them lol.

 

It doesn't really have anything to do with older video games not being produced anymore as 10-15 years ago SNES games weren't produced either and they weren't that expensive tbh but they have shot up significantly in price lately as well as a lot of fakes appearing. It's just the whole "nostalgia/retro" craze that's been going around lately.

Edited September 19, 2019 by CyberDreams

[kaleb.]

13 hours ago, Doomkid said:

*dzone box*

i always love the cover for dzone showing 3 pictures of someone shooting at walls for no reason

[famicommander]

14 hours ago, WadArchive said:

or prices/demand goes up because those that had those system or games when they are younger want to go back and play them for nostalgic reasons. Or now have some disposable income to be able to buy the games when previously they didn't.

 

why else are all the console companies producing mini consoles? I doubt it is because of the collectors out there

You are apparently not into the classic game scene because most people don't play their mini consoles either. They buy them and put them on the shelf forever.

 

If you check Atari Age, the same people buy the Flashback every single year and that thing barely changes its games lineup and the emulation is still ridiculously bad. They buy it, put it on the shelf, and the immediately start asking about box variants or special editions, if not next year's release.

 

The Neo Geo Mini screwed up the button layout on their own damn system and half the people on the Neo Geo forums bought all the different regional variants and put them on the shelf forever. Seriously, to understand the scale of this screw up, imagine if on the Super Nintendo Mini they had switched the A for the B button and the X for the Y button. That's what they did on the Neo Geo Mini. And they put analog sticks instead of digital joysticks on a freaking 1990 arcade machine replica.

 

The Playstation Mini is barely functional and people bought it. It emulates PS1 games MUCH worse than half a dozen other Sony devices (PSP, PS3, PS4, PS TV, PS2 [which actually uses hardware backwards compatibility). 

[WadArchive]

I am into collecting older games and systems. 

 

Those users on atariage and similar sites are still a small proportion of buyers of these mini systems. I agree that a lot will still end up on shelves collecting dust whether they are collectors or not for various reasons.

 

However this is offtopic.

 

@OneDoomedSpaceMarine I know for console boxes you can get protective cases for them so you might be able to find some for a big box. I should probably get some myself

[BabyGiggles]

On 9/17/2019 at 1:15 PM, geo said:

Put it into dirt, water it every day and talk to it. Praise often works.

thank you my guy

[CyberDreams]

On 9/17/2019 at 3:52 PM, Linguica said:

I have a Doom 2 box, and it's kinda beat up, but whatever. I store it on a shelf in a cupboard.

It also has some markings on the front which makes it worthless?

 

 

I forgot to mention that i love those markings btw ;)

 

On 9/17/2019 at 8:42 PM, Doomkid said:

I also have a VASTLY SUPERIOR box to linguica:

 

-Only signed by Romero rather than the whole crew

 

That fact that he signed that is funny and cool at the same time considering the fact that at the time id Software didn't like the shovelware companies releasing Doom content and released The Master Levels as a sort of retribution (or is that why you had him sign it, as a joke so to speak lol).

 

On 9/17/2019 at 8:42 PM, Doomkid said:

Oh I also intend to keep my Sigil box unopened for a long ass time like a proper crater-brained POS since I had already played it a bunch by the time the box arrived

 

Haha, yeah. When i read through the Sigil thread i remember reading that your's took a long ass time to come but at least it showed up after all. If i would of ordered one i would of probably kept mine sealed as well, just for the hell of it.

 

Edited September 19, 2019 by CyberDreams

[Doomkid]

I actually got the box (already signed) in a mapping contest held by Buckshot! Never had a chance to meet or see any of the old id crew unfortunately, so I’m really lucky to have it.

[TwinBeast]

Build a a little nest for it and feed implings for it until the first moulting. Then move onto adult imps and demon pups.

[AnthonyTankHD]

 

 

Despite the Fact that own Doom both steam and GOG
and i got it on my xbox as well
and also my wii, my VR  headset, My phone and also not  least on my USB Flash Drive so basically i got doom on everything and also i am a collector also i love collecting things and nothing wrong with tthat

[BigBoy91]

I don't own one. I feel like I'm being gatekept right now. This is very problematic.

[Nevander]

Here's everything physical Doom I own. From top left to bottom right: SIGIL, Final Doom (for Mac though, long story), D!ZONE 2 shovelware, Doom 3 RoE, Doom 3, Collector's Edition Doom, Doom 3 Xbox, Doom 2016. Oh and Doom 3 BFG Edition for 360, not pictured.

Edited May 8, 2022 by Nevander

[gwain]

this thread should be interesting because some pc stores made there own box art back in the day

[Jello]

I don't think I even have the original jewel cases for Ultimate Doom and Doom 2, the discs got transferred to blank cases at least 20 years ago because the original cases had gotten cracked over time so I transferred the discs and sleeves to new cases. All my original game boxes were thrown out during a move when I was a teenager.

 

I still have the original discs though, but for the last two plus decades I've just saved my Doom and Doom 2 folders along with everything else I want to save onto USBs and transferred the data to a new PC.

 

 

[ax34]

I only have some bootleg discs and Steam copy.

[ducon]

I also own DOOM (2016) but this picture was taken before.

Edited May 9, 2022 by ducon

[Valboom]

[spineapple tea]

It has come to my attention that I only own Doom on Steam. Shame.

[azerty]

I sadly wasn't born early enough to get a physical copy but I would love to have one.

[BlueThunder]

Bought the I and II at CompUsa in 1995 and Final Doom at Best Buy in 1996.

Edited May 9, 2022 by BlueThunder

[Alex S.]

7 hours ago, Valboom said:

I love the UK cover for The Ultimate Doom. That demon face is one of my favorites!

[Roebloz]

I don't have much in terms of physical Doom, I have Doom 2 GBA somewhere and I am getting Doom SNES for my collection, but otherwise the King of my collection and pretty much the only physical release of Doom that I have is my SIGIL Beast Box.

 

 

Aside from being the SIGIL Beast Box and being huge, the Beast Box is the crowned jewel simply because I got it for free from John himself since he was impressed with Doom 32x Delta's SIGIL port. Yeah I know I flex thisnat every opportunity I get but hey, this time you kinda asked, and it's metal as fuck.