NE #22: Does it run Doom?
A 30-year-old milestone among computer games that can be played on Lego bricks, a toaster or an oscilloscope? Part 22 of the Nerd Encyclopedia on Doom!
Doom is a very successful and advanced 1st-person shooter of id Software from 1993 for the time. Together with his successor Doom 2, Doom was on the list of articles that endangered youth between 1994 and 2011, this did not detract from success.
Doom can now be counted as the “cultural heritage of the games industry”, it served and still serves as an inspiration for other games and has developed over the years into a fairly successful franchise with films, board games and even books.
The source code of Doom was made available for free in 2011 and could be modified to make the game running on other devices as well. This was the starting signal for a very special challenge that follows the question: which technical devices can be used to port the game? In short: “Doom afterwards run ” (Will it run doom)?
This is not only about devices that are designed to run games, i.e. computers or consoles, but also about unusual things such as mobile phones or cameras. Not unusual enough? This is a certainly incomplete list of devices on which Doom can be played:
- an oscilloscope [YOUT2YOUT2]
- a printer [YOUT3YOUT3]
- A display board for advertising [YOUT4YOUT4]
- LeapTV, a learning system for children [YOUT5YOUT5]
- ATM [YOUT6]
- a piano [YOUT7YOUT7]
- a toaster [TUMB1]
- within teletext [YOUT9]
- as Christmas tree decoration [YOUT10]
- Inside Notepad [YOUT11]
- on a Lego stone [YOUT12]
And of course Doom also runs within Doom…#Doomception![YOUT8]
