Doom 30th Anniversary Gold Floppy

[Eurisko]

First piece of 30th anniversary merch I’ve seen. 
GAME in the UK are doing a Gold replica floppy disk of the original Doom limited to 1993 copies. Priced at £19.99.
 

Link below. 

 

https://www.game.co.uk/en/m/doom-30th-anniversary-limited-replica-floppy-disk-2895703

[Tompig]

Compulsive purchase, moi? Noo....

Okay, sure.

[Average]

^

Link works for me.  Are you in the UK?  

[Azuris]

So, you can't actually use it XP?

[roadworx]

...okay, but does it actually work?

[Eurisko]

No, It’s just a collectible. It comes with a display stand. 

[Murdoch]

That looks monstrously ugly.

[Noiser]

Access denied...

[arsac]

Brazilian here, also isn't working. Damn.

[,,,]

For those outside of the UK:(I would have taken a screenshot of the page itself, but it is formatted HORRIBLY and requires you to scroll multiple screens worth of awful HTML/CSS just to get short spurts of meaningful info. Modern web and UX design is... not in a good place. I'm actually not convinced it loaded correctly, it's probably one of those websites that thinks anything running an OS other than Windows or MacOS is a mobile device, as the page I was served was obviously designed for mobile, everything is extremely horizontally stretched which wouldn't be an issue on a squished, vertically-oriented mobile display, and it has what terminally hip UI designers like to call a "hamburger" menu.)

Edited February 19, 2023 by Individualised

[Murdoch]

4 minutes ago, Individualised said:

For those outside of the UK:(I would have taken a screenshot of the page itself, but it is formatted HORRIBLY and requires you to scroll multiple screens worth of awful HTML/CSS just to get short spurts of meaningful info. It is obviously designed for mobile as everything is extremely horizontally stretched which wouldn't be an issue on a squished, vertically-oriented mobile display.Modern web and UX design is... not in a good place. I'm actually not convinced it loaded correctly, it's probably one of those websites that thinks anything running an OS other than Windows or MacOS is a mobile device. )

 

The problem is the OP posted the mobile link. Here is the correct one.

 

https://www.game.co.uk/en/doom-30th-anniversary-limited-replica-floppy-disk-2895703

 

It's also not the original floppies. The original was 1.1, not 1.2.

[,,,]

Just now, Murdoch said:

 

The problem is the OP posted the mobile link. Here is the correct one.

 

https://www.game.co.uk/en/doom-30th-anniversary-limited-replica-floppy-disk-2895703

 

It's also not the original floppies. The original was 1.1, not 1.2.

Thanks. That's actually a useable page.

[arsac]

3 minutes ago, Murdoch said:

The problem is the OP posted the mobile link. Here is the correct one.

 

https://www.game.co.uk/en/doom-30th-anniversary-limited-replica-floppy-disk-2895703

Both aren't working. Guess it's not available outside of the UK.

 

Spoiler

Basing off what @Individualised posted, it looks ugly as sin.

 

[,,,]

I think it's cool for what it is. They could have done something much more disgraceful to Doom's history, like a "gold replica" Doom... NES cartridge, or a web port of shareware Doom 1... that was entirely recreated from scratch in Javascript and plays awfully. Stuff of similar vein to both things I mentioned has happened in the past with other games before, where the developer/publisher of the game is somehow clueless about their own history. So I can appreciate stuff like this, because I know it could be much worse lol.

[Eurisko]

Here’s a pic of it on the display stand. 

I think it’s ok for the price.
 

No doubt something of outrageous cost for the 30th will be announced as time goes on. 

 

[Kute]

I like it. If it was being done by ID software, I'd be pretty tempted, but this is just some UK game company of some sort?                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

[Eurisko]

‘GAME’ are the UK equivalent of Game Stop. 
They are just a retailer.  

[Murdoch]

13 minutes ago, Kute said:

I like it. If it was being done by ID software, I'd be pretty tempted, but this is just some UK game company of some sort?                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

 

It is improbable that id are involved in any merchandising decisions whatsoever. Their corporate overloards will be calling the shots. This will be "officially licensed" in the sense that someone at MS gave the go ahead, otherwise these guys would get nuked for trademark infringement.

[Biodegradable]

So it's not even a real floppy disk with Doom on it and just sits on a stand to act as a pseudo gold-plated dust collector? Kind of lame, honestly.

[Murdoch]

1 hour ago, Biodegradable said:

So it's not even a real floppy disk with Doom on it and just sits on a stand to act as a pseudo gold-plated dust collector? Kind of lame, honestly.

 

It honestly looks more like cardboard to me.

[indigotyrian]

That doesn't look like gold or even gold-plated. If it were it wouldn't be 20 pounds. This looks like a plastic tchotchke not really worth anything.

Edited February 20, 2023 by segfault : fixed ignorant americanism

[,,,]

1 hour ago, segfault said:

That doesn't look like gold or even gold-plated. If it were it wouldn't be 20 euros. This looks like a plastic tchotchke not really worth anything.

Pounds, not euros.

[Azuris]

12 hours ago, segfault said:

That doesn't look like gold or even gold-plated. If it were it wouldn't be 20 pounds. This looks like a plastic tchotchke not really worth anything.

 

I guess it is some sort of Spray with a small amount of Gold in it.

 

Imo it would be actually more fun if they sell working Floppies :)

 

No Gold, just official Floppies with Doom in it.

 

[AbeAwesome]

It's ugly, gaudy, an incomplete set, and isn't even a real floppy!

I hope it flops.

 

Thanks for sharing though, it's cool to see what's coming out, I just hope the rest of the 30th anniversary stuff is cooler.