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There are lots of interesting things you can collect. You've listed some of them already. As I have some of them myself I figure that the easiest way is to show you my collection and I'll give some insight into some of the more interesting items. I'll skip over the things that are less interesting.
http://www.soulsphere.org/img/doom-collection-montage.png
From top to bottom, left to right.
- Chex Quest
- Demon Gate - shovelware CD. There are dozens of different shovelware CDs - some of them are quite rare, I don't find them that interesting.
- Depths of Doom collection. You describe it as expensive, and my experience is that it isn't that expensive. Often it's quite cheap if you get it without the box, although obviously with the box is much more desirable. Contains the Master Levels/Maximum Doom, but not Final Doom.
- Doom II EU/Virgin release. There are many releases of Doom II. This is one of the DOS versions.
- Doom II French edition. This is probably one of the rarer items in my collection. I went to the trouble of writing a post a couple of years ago about it and how I got hold of my copy.
- GBA Doom II
- Doom II for Mac. This is obviously a bit rarer than the PC versions. It's also unique in that the box cover art shows more detail than the normal boxes.
- Doom II: The official strategy guide. One of many strategy guide books that you can find on Amazon fairly easily.
- Doom 3
- Doom 3: ROE
- Doom 64
- Doom "Battlebook"
- Doom Collector's Edition. There are two releases of this (from 2001 and 2003) with slightly different covers, and the EU/US versions are different. The 2003 version has a second CD with Doom 3 preview content. Contains Final Doom but not the Master Levels.
- Doom comic. There are two versions of this with different adverts (I have both). Check out this post for some comparison shots.
- Doom Construction Kit. Book about making Doom levels.
- GBA Doom
- Doom movie DVD.
- Doom shareware CD. The nature of shareware is that there are lots of CDs from different shareware companies and none of them are worth much. The exception is the official Id ones (I think they're only on floppy)
- Doom shareware floppies. Same deal.
- Official Doom Survivor's Strategies and Secrets guide. This is actually quite an interesting book, partly because of the fact that it's the official strategy guide. But the really interesting thing is the shareware floppies it comes with - it has a unique version of Shareware Doom (v1.25) not found elsewhere.
- Final Doom. I don't have the big box, which is a shame because it's quite nice.
- Heretic
- Hexen
- Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel (expansion pack)
- Id Anthology. These are probably the most sought-after item for collectors, and they aren't cheap, but they are very nice. There are lots of incomplete versions of the anthology floating around on eBay, especially versions that are just the "Book of Id" without the rest of the box. Finding complete versions can be quite hard. Worth noting is that there are two versions of this, one of which is notable because it has a different version of the Final Doom files that fixes a bug.
- Lost Episodes of Doom. A commercial WAD file masquerading as a hintbook for itself (a cunning publishing strategy). Quite nice.
- Masters of Doom. Novel about the making of Doom: a good read and pretty cheap.
- Strife
- Strife
- Boxed Windows 95 version of Ultimate Doom.
- DOS version of Ultimate Doom. For some reason, the CDs for different releases of Ultimate Doom all seem to look different (Doom II ones all look mostly the same).
- Ultimate Doom for Mac
- Urban Brawl \m/
To answer a couple of your other questions:
DoomCollector said:
• Doom, post-order
I don't think there's any significant difference between pre-/post-order? Except the version number obviously. Earlier versions like v1.1 are probably rarer.
• The Ultimate Doom... how many editions are there? All with demon cover? I've seen one that says CD-ROM and the Win95 edition, is there any difference?
Earlier versions were for DOS, while later ones were for Win95 and used Doom95.
Bear in mind that there's Registered Doom as well as Ultimate Doom. Registered are rarer and worth more.
• Doom II, exists on 3.5" floppies and CD I guess?
Yes. And Registered Doom was on 5.25" floppies as well. By the time they did Doom 2/UD they only did 3.5".
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