This Limited-Edition 'DOOM' Release Comes In a Box That Runs 'DOOM'

A caller DOOM re-release from Limited Run Games comes successful a container that tin tally DOOM. Available for $666 connected April 18th, the container acceptable is constricted to 666 units, truthful you'll request to aftermath up aboriginal if you're consenting to stroke the large bucks connected what is fundamentally a collectable meme.

The caller DOOM + DOOM II: Will It Run Edition contains carnal versions of the archetypal 2 DOOM games, positive a handheld Cacodemon that tin tally DOOM, a magnetized floating Cacodemon figurine, immoderate trading cards, 4 cassette tapes featuring the DOOM soundtrack, and the aforementioned container that plays DOOM.

Customers tin take from Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox, and PC versions of the container set, each of which see immoderate bonus games—TNT: Evilution, The Plutonia Experiment, No Rest for the Living, Sigil, Sigil II, DOOM II Master Levels, 25 caller Doom deathmatch maps, and Legacy of Rust (a DOOM enlargement that came retired successful 2024).

For those who don't privation to stroke a luck connected the Will It Run Doom box, Limited Run Games volition besides merchantability slimmed-down Big Box Edition and Standard Edition versions of this set. But you gotta walk $666 if you privation a container that runs DOOM—the different sets don't travel with the chill container oregon the handheld Cacodemon toy.

Unfortunately, Limited Run Games hasn't shared immoderate high-res images oregon videos of the Will It Run Doom box. We besides don't cognize the specs of the box, though it appears to tally the archetypal mentation of DOOM (rather than a remaster) and astir apt runs connected an SBC (that said, the container seems to incorporate a comparatively ample motherboard). It doesn't person an integrated controller, truthful you'll request to plug 1 successful via USB. You could propulsion unneurotic thing akin for acold little than $666 if you truly wanted to.

"Can it tally DOOM" is simply a well-established meme and a communal situation for machine nerds. Within the past twelvemonth oregon so, we've seen DOOM tally connected Word documents, PDFs, pinball machines, and Nintendo alarm clocks. Biotech researchers are trying to play DOOM connected a clump of rat neurons successful a jar, and instrumentality learning experts person recovered a mode to make AI hallucinate a playable DOOM.

Limited Run Games' caller DOOM-in-a-box is astir apt the astir self-referential DOOM merchandise we've ever gotten, but it's a beauteous mild instrumentality connected the DOOM meme, each things considered. The $666 terms tag is arguably much shocking than thing included successful this container set.

You tin bargain the DOOM + DOOM II: Will It Run Edition container connected April 18th astatine 10AM ET. It's disposable for the Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox, and PC. Again, the container acceptable costs $666 and is constricted to 666 units.

Source: Limited Run Games via Engadget