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Following the successful sale of his Doom T-short last week, John Romero has put another one up for auction.

Romero is selling a XL Doom II T-shirt that features the over of the game. The shirt was listed on eBay on October 22 with a starting bid of $10 and in three hours 15 users had made an offer with the highest being $75.

The announcement was made via Twitter with the following:

 

This announcement comes a week after the successful sale of a Doom T-shirt from 1993 for $390. In the last few months he has been putting a lot of Doom memorabilia up for sale including his personal copy of Masters of Doom and his floppy disk copy of Doom II.

John Romero is a pioneer in the gaming world having co-founded id Software in the 90’s alongside John Carmack and Tom Hall. His gaming credits include work on Wolfenstein 3DDoom and Quake just to name a few while also coining the multiplayer term “deathmatch”.

In 2015; he established Romero Games Ltd., an independent game studio located in Galway, Ireland. Their first title, Gunman Taco Truck was released in January 2017 and it was highly praised by critics along with gamers.

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