Talk:List of commercial compilations

# of WADs vs. # of levels / claimed vs. actual numbers
I'm not sure that the current field is clear enough on what it's actually reporting. In my experience these compilations are more likely to be marketed with a number of "levels" rather than a number of "WADs" which can be a relevant distinction when a single .WAD sometimes contains multiple levels. This also makes it more difficult to test the veracity of the publisher's claims.

An actual number of levels vs. claimed number of levels might be interesting, but given the tediousness of checking this, perhaps it's better to consider that this field be dropped as too lacking in real information? -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 21:10, 30 May 2014 (UTC)


 * I know it's a bit of a problem determining "levels" vs. "WADs" but it's still useful information to judge the relative size of the compilations by. However I would request that you not include/add things like "1000's" - if you are unable to get an actual numeric figure and cannot download and mount the image to manually count, then don't include the information at all.


 * I also removed the word (registered) from the Launcher field because it is not part of the launcher program's title and was causing that column to increase in length and the table width is already maxing out. --Quasar (talk) 21:33, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Shovelware list
Doomworld forum user buttspit probably not exhaustive but still more complete than what we have in the article currently. There are much less details about them though, having only the title and for some an approximate level count. I'm pasting the list below for posterity. --Gez (talk) 10:56, 30 November 2014 (UTC)


 * A few of these I'm aware of, such as the alternate versions of Demon Gate that claim 600, vs 666, levels, but I've not had time to research them yet. If you branch out into German, some of them are documented here, but to be honest I feel like some of these obvious hack jobs somebody had printed up at the German version of Kinko's, don't even list a publisher at all, and are probably owned by 10 people in the whole world have to be below our notability standards. Thanks for the list though, it'll give me (or anybody else) something to work off of. --Quasar (talk) 16:16, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

1001 Nights of Doom - ? 3D Game Achlemy - >2400? 3D Nightmares - ? 4-Ever Doomed - >1200 Absolute Mayhem - ? Aliens Doom - 11 Aliens Doom (different from above) - 27 Boom Power Pack [OHBOOM1] (German) - 440 Boom Power Pack [OHBOOM2] (German+English) - 650 Boom 2 Power Pack [B-OHBOOM2] (German+English) - 1000 Boom 2 Supplement - >1321 Boom Classic Power Pack (German+English+French) - 2000 CD Powerplay - 695 CD Powerplay Total Carnage Issue 3 - 550 Chex Quest - 5 Club Software 1996 Doom WADS - ? Cream of the Crop (#3-11, #20-26) - ? Cobra Doom Utilities (1st Ed?) - >350 Cobra Doom Utilities 2nd Ed - ? Cobra Doom II Episodes Volume I and II - 60 Cobra Powerpack - ? Cobra Utilities for Doom and Doom II - 1200 D-1000 - 1000 D!Match 150 - 150 D!Match - 500 D!Zone - 150 D!Zone 150 - 150 D!Zone 2 (1 shot box; French version also exists) - 1000 D!Zone 2 (3 shots box) - 1000 D!Zone 2 150 - 150 D!Zone 3 - 1000 D!Zone Collector's Edition (1 shot box) - >900 D!Zone Collector's Edition (3 shots box) - >900 D!Zone Gold 3000 - 3000 D!Zone Mac - 2000 Deathday Collection - >1000 Deathmatch for Doom and Doom II - ~1300 Deathmatch 2 for Doom and Doom II - 900 Death Match The Ultimate Game Player's Kit (UK and US versions) - >7000 Demon Collection - ? Demon Gate - >600 Demon Gate 666 - >666 Demon Gate Mac - >600 Demon Gate Mega Collection - >6000 Depths of Doom Trilogy (Master Levels+Ultimate Doom) - 3030 DM2 Magic for Doom II - >270 DM2 Super Magic - 440 DO.M I Do.M II Dark Forces (English+German) - ? Doom & More - 0 Doom + Accessories - >500 Doom 1 & 2 Add-On Levels (2 versions with rearranged text) - >300 Doom 2 Addons (centipede on cover) - >1500 Doom 2 Explosion - >2218 Doom Add-Ons - 800 Doom Add Ons - ? Doom Advanced Utility CD-ROM - ? Doom Alien Adventure - 27 Doom Collector's Edition (2001; Ultimate Doom) - 9 Doom Collector's Edition (2003; Ultimate Doom) - 9 Doom Companion (bundled with Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus) - >1000 Doom Companion CD-ROM - ? Doom Companion Edition - ? Doom Construction Kit - 30 Doom Deluxe CD-ROM - ? Doom Developers Kit Vol 1 - 850 Doom Expert - ? Doom Explosion - >1200 Doom Extra Hard - 27 (unaltered maps, different monster placement) Doom Extra Levels Vol 1 - 40 Doom Extra Levels Vol 2 - 70 Doom Extras - >361 Doom Extras II - ? Doom Game Editor - >1000 Doom Fever - >500 Doom Hacker's Guide CD - >42 Doom Heaven - >2500 Doom Heaven II - >2500 Doom Helper - >1000 Doom Helper 2 - 1900 Doom I/II Collection - >100 Doom II Explosion - >2000 Doom II Heretic Hexen CD Book - ? Doom II Mania!!! #1 - 432 Doom II Mania!!! #2 - ? Doom Mania!!! - 525 Doom Mega Set - ? Doom Shareware CD - >2900 Doom Special Edition - >169 Doom Unlimited - >879 Doom Utilities - ? Doom Utilities II - ? Doom2 Unauthorized Guide - 0 Doomania - 2600 Doomania: il passaporto per l'Inferno - ? Doomed Games - ? DoomII Megawad Collection #1 - >100 Dooms Day Collection - ? Doomware Developers Network CD Occurrence I - >1000 Enhancements - >1106 Final Doom - 64 Game Box Vol 1 - ? Gamers Arsenal - ? Games 1994 - ? Games 1995 - ? Games 1996 - ? Games Chameleon - 1140 Gaminator - 1300 Giga Games 2 - >616 Gold Medal Software (Volumes 3-5) - ? Hacx - 20 Hell on CD-ROM - ? Hell to Pay - 32 Home Edutainment Collection Volume IV - 1200 id Anthology (Ultimate Doom; PC Master Levels only; Mac Master Levels with MaxDoom) - 3030/3051 Instant Doom Levels - >1000 Instant Doom Levels 2.0 - ? January 1995 Current Shareware - ? July 1994 Current Shareware Volume II - ? Laura Beyer's Doom - 12 Level-ROM - >1112 Level Master - ? Level Master II - >2400 Levelmania - 2450 Levelmania 2 - ? MacGames 3 - ? Master Levels for Doom II - 3021 Maximum Death for Doom - 1600 Maximum Death for Doom II - 2400 MegaCD-ROM #5 - ? MegaDoom 3 Add-On CD-ROM - 500 MegaDoom Adventures - >300 MegaDoom II - >1500 Mega WAD Vol I - ? Mega WAD Vol II - ? New Doom Levels: Into the Fire - 27 New Horizons Shareware Collection - ? Night Owl Games 3 - ? Night Owl (#13, #15, #16-18, #20) - ? Over 1000 Doom Levels - >2064 PC Zone Bioforce (April 1995) - >1130 PC Zone CD Edition - 1000 PC Zone Explosive (December 1994) - >455 Perdition's Gate - 32 Power Duke - ? PSL Monthly Volume #3-10: Education - ? Quake 'Em - ? Shareware Extravaganza 8 - ? Shareware Medley - >443 So Much Shareware 6 - ? Software Vault: Diamond - ? Sprint Gamers Companion 5 - ? Soundblaster Multimedia Experience Volume 4 - ? Star Wars Doom - 21 Supercharged Doom - ? Supercharged Xpansion Pack - >500 Supergames Volume 1 - ? Supergames Volume 2 - >20 The Complete Doom Accessory Pack - >150 The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume II - 600 The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume III - 650 The Complete Doom Accessory Pack Volume IV - 2300 The Doom Hacker's Guide - ? The Hacker's Encyclopedia '98 - ? The Home Edutainment Collection Volume 4 3D Games and Extensions (Aztech New Media Corp) - ? The Lost Episodes of Doom - 24 The Pier Shareware (#5-10) - ? The Q Files - ? The Toom Parade CDR2028 - ? The Toom Parade CDR2133 - ? The Ultimate & The Classic (Ultimate Doom) - 9 The Ultimate Add On Collection For Doom/Doom II - >1000 The Ultimate WAD Pack - ? Time of Reckoning - 500 Toolkit for Doom Version 1 - 500? Toolkit for Doom Version 1 and 2 - 500? Toolkit for Doom Volume 1 - >1243 Toolkit for Doom Volume 3 - >3328 Total Ruin 1 - >3000 Total Ruin 2 - ? Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus - >1000 Ultimate Add-On's Tournament Edition - >2500? Ultimate Doom (basically an add-on) - 9 Ultimate Doom Companion - >3600 Ultimate Gameware Collection - ? UltraDoom - 400 Universe of Levels(?) - ? Video Game Solution CD Release 2.0 - ? Violence in 3D - >700 Violence Volume 2 - >1000? Virtual Reality - >100 WADS of WADS - >100 Xtra Shake - >1277

Level Master II
A few notes on my recent edit and the product. -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 17:50, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The contents appear to just be a copy of 3D Game Alchemy. I didn't get a sealed copy, but the book is pictured on the back of the box and the book fits the box just right.  My copy didn't come with anything beyond the box and book with disc.
 * The book is from SAMS, but the box says Macmillan Digital Publishing USA, so I changed it to this.
 * I do not see the phrase "Instant Doom Levels" written anywhere on the box or book cover.
 * I have seen Level Master III, IV and V offered for sale on eBay/Amazon, but never just plain Level Master (I). This kind of bugs me since the Level Master II box does say "Volume 2" on the side.  (I don't have 3-5, which are not Doom-related anyway.) What's with this?  Was there really a Level Master I out there somewhere?  Is it related to the previous edition of 3D Game Alchemy (Tricks of the Doom Programming Gurus)?


 * Most of my info came from here. This page says it comes with an eBook copy of Tricks of the Doom Gurus, which is not the same book as 3D Game Alchemy - see List of books. Are we sure this is the one-and-the-same product? --Quasar (talk) 18:51, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Some photos. I really don't think archive.org puts much care into those collections. -- ETTiNGRiNDER (talk) 19:39, 23 January 2015 (UTC)