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id Anthology

PC MS-Windows/Macintosh CD published 28 years ago by ID Soft., Inc.

Listed in MAME

id Anthology © 1996 ID Soft., Inc.

The id Anthology is a collection of all the games made by id Software. This compilation has 19 games on 4 CDs.

The first CD has the games id Software made from 1991 to 1993: this includes all the Commander Keen games, both Wolfenstein games, and really early games such as Dangerous Dave and Slordax. Commander Keen: Aliens Ate my Babysitter is only the CGA version.

The second CD titled DOOM has The Ultimate DOOM, DOOM 2, Master Levels, and Final DOOM. Master Levels does not include Maximum DOOM on the DOOM CD, however it does on the Mac CD. All the DOOM games apart from Master Levels have both the DOS and DOOM95 versions of v1.9 (the latest). Master Levels comes with a DOS launcher doomit v9.5c where the player may load the .wad files from. The DOOM CD also has a copy of DirectX 4, Dwango95, and xband.

The third Quake CD has Quake on it with the audio CD music.

The fourth Mac CD has Mac versions of Wolfenstein 3D, Ultimate DOOM, DOOM 2, and Final DOOM.

TECHNICAL

BARCODE: 7 42725 10252 1

TRIVIA

Released on November 30, 1996 in the USA. This anthology was limited to 10,000 copies worldwide.

UPDATES

There exist two versions of the Anthology. There are no obvious differences in packaging, but the rarer version contains different TNT.WAD and PLUTONIA.WAD where some bugs have been fixed, among a few other minor changes.

SOURCES

Game's discs.