IlGialloMondadori
Member
Just like he was going to make a demo and return to Kickstarter with his Oldschool RPG? I'll believe it when I see it.
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John Romero is selling his original Doom II disks
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Just like he was going to make a demo and return to Kickstarter with his Oldschool RPG? I'll believe it when I see it.
ScaryShark
Banned
lol @ anonymous Internet posters speculating about someone's personal finances based on what they put up on eBay. It's hardly like these disks are some personal heirloom.
Marty Chinn
Member
The point is that they are his disks. It's like the difference of buying a Michael Jordan jersey in a store and buying a jersey he wore in a game. One is worth way more than the other.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
I don't know if he's hard up for money or whatever but I saw him at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didnt want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, Oh, like youre doing now?
I was taken aback, and all I could say was Huh? but he kept cutting me off and going huh? huh? huh? and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like Sir, you need to pay for those first. At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually to prevent any electrical infetterence, and then turned around and winked at me. I dont even think thats a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
He said, Oh, like youre doing now?
I was taken aback, and all I could say was Huh? but he kept cutting me off and going huh? huh? huh? and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like Sir, you need to pay for those first. At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually to prevent any electrical infetterence, and then turned around and winked at me. I dont even think thats a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
SebastianM
Member
But why?
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
To what extent are they his disks? Nowhere in the listing does it state any kind of backstory, not even a 'these were stashed in a shoe box for 20+ years, just found 'em' etc. There doesn't seem to be any significance to the actual items themselves other than John Romero has retail Doom disks that he could have acquired any time between the early 90s and now, and is selling them. Now, If they had some kind of quirk or unique attribute to Romero, or were even development disks of some sort (highly unlikely he would sell that sort of thing, but just using as an example), then that would really be something to get people in a spin. Of course, he has his fans, and whatever someone wants to spend their money on is up to them.
bytemovies
Member
I dont know what to make of this other than it sounds like a Bill Murray story.
Simply Sami
Member
This isn't funny when it's been posted 100 times before.
uncredited male
Member
It would be kind of cool to have the same disk read errors that John Romero got on his PC.
You have absolutely no idea of what you're talking about.
Take a deep breath and understand/accept the wrongness of your opinion, because it is wrong. There is a market for this, no matter how ridiculous you think this is.
That moment when you feel like you've been living under a rock, finding out that this has been circulating for 5 years... and this is the first I've seen of it. LOL