There were a ton of shareware versions of Doom.
They are usually a tad more now for a nice one from what i've seen anyways.
The Depths of Doom collection can be $100 or so but when its around that price it can either be missing something and/or the box is beat up. Sometimes they are cheaper but they could be missing the poster and/or other contents. The DOS/Win95 versions are much more (definitely $100 US or so). Even Ultimate Doom boxes can fetch around $100.ġ995 The Ultimate Doom release, which comes on both floppy disk as well as CD ROM. That's usually priced at 80-100 . Then there's the Depths of Doom collection at 100Įverytime i see "The Ultimate Doom" it's usually the Macintosh version and those ones are much cheaper ($50-ish or so). From what I've see they can go for $300+ depending on condition and completion. Id's Publisher definitely put out boxed versions of the shareware in stores (you were basically just being charged for the packaging).
I was born too late for that area with doom, but definitely lived through the era of shareware game collection disks full of stuff anyone with an internet connection could simply download for free. I think you might be seeing unofficial 'shareware' (in quotes because they took free content and charged money for it) releases that bundled up usermade wads onto a disk/floppy. But why would anyone have paid good money for the free part of it? Was there even a 'boxed' version of that at all? Offiical floppies, perhaps. Well, the point of the shareware releases is that they were free to share around in order to promote the full, paid version.