DOOM Creator Shares "Holy Grail" Of Original CD Copies

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Doom co-creator John Romero claims to have found the «Holy Grail» of Doom, in the form of a CD copy of the game from its final print run. It's easy to play the Doom trilogyon modern consoles, thanks to an amazing Unity port that cleans up the visuals and adds controller support, but it's also not difficult to find the old PC versions online.

There was a time when Doom was seen as a technological marvel, with developers racing to get the game running at an acceptable rate on consoles. The original console ports of Doom during the 16-bit era were notoriously terrible, but the game was running pretty much flawlessly on 32-bit systems. Over time, video game hardware improved to the point where running Doom was no longer a challenge. Nowadays, it has become a running gag for people to get Doom running on all kinds of devices, with there even being a version of Doom that runs on a pregnancy test.

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There were a number of different versions of Doom on PC, and now a particularly rare version of the game has been found. John Romero uploaded a photo of a Doom CD to Twitter, which he described as the «Holy Grail» of the original registered versions of Doom. It's a CD pressing of the v1.9 version of the game, which has an unusual history.

This CD is from registered DOOM and was sold by mail by id Software in 1995. It’s the last CD pressing of the game and is v1.9. More… pic.twitter.com/Mby1MQANO6

The original version of Doom released in 1993 received several patches, the last of which was v.1.9. There was an updated version released in 1995, called The Ultimate Doom, which added a fourth episode. The original version received a final update to coincide with The Ultimate Doom. The CD version