Games are meant to be played, but it's rare for a game to be as bad as Doom.

As a classic shooter, the original 1993 Doom has been ported to a variety of bizarre platforms by many geeks.

In October 2023, a news broke that a foreign do-it-yourself user hacked Apple's long-discontinued Pippin console and successfully ran Doom on it.

The 1993 game, running on a console launched in 1996, doesn't seem to be technically extremely difficult.

But if you know how weird the equipment is that can run Doom, you'll really recognize what makes this news unique.

The game, which successfully established the basic concept of FPS, is said to have been successfully implemented and played on "platforms" such as Porsche's central control screens, digital cameras, printers, smart refrigerators, ATMs, McDonald's food ordering machines, electronic pregnancy test sticks, ultrasound scanners, Lego bricks, and even Minecraft and GIFs without physical entities.

For example, a geek has a brainstorm to rebuild three toasters, connect them to a computer via USB, and use a toaster to perfectly replace the controller and keyboard and mouse.

One engineer goes even further, using a sensor polystyrene ball to control the rat to walk, and then fills the rat with the sugar water that the rat likes into different tubes at the right time to get the rat to open the door and shoot in Doom!

As a result, the dream came true that rats could also play shooting.

It's not a good idea for a geek to connect a traditional piano and a computer to play the piano to manipulate Doom.

After all, no matter how elegant, the music that plays to match the progress of the game is a random piano.

The reason why various spoofs chose Doom is mainly because this game is indeed extremely compatible, and it is also one of the originators of open-source games.

Since it is open source, it can support all kinds of magic changes.

Some players even used this game to make amazing "philosophical thoughts": whether they can play "Doom" in "Doom".

Again, the answer is yes.

In 2015, some players launched a mod to play the original Doom in the magic version of Doom.

But this is not the end, it can also be upgraded, after all, the magic version is not the original.

In 2022, some players have gone one step further and successfully run Doom 2 in the original DOS version of Doom 2:

Using the native editor to make a level with only one room, Doom 2 was successfully screened on one wall of the room, and in addition to the lack of sound, the game worked perfectly, and even supported the entry of cheat codes.

There seems to be no longer any controversy about what equipment can't run Doom.

But what is really amazing is that it is precisely such a series of spoof actions that make people feel unexpectedly many possible future poses.

For example, many years ago, a foreign tycoon used a USB flash drive to play "Doom" on the screen of a Porsche 911, using the steering wheel of a car to control the game perspective and honk the horn to shoot......

Considering that not everyone has the opportunity to play games on sports cars worth millions, this geek has also launched a tuning tutorial for other cars.

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this spoof that Musk finally promoted the installation of more ancient Atari games in Tesla, and also opened up the spread of more manufacturers' brains to promote smart cars into game consoles.

It can be seen that as soon as "Doom" appears, it can indeed always make people feel something.

For example, the appearance of the Pippin game console this time seems reasonable, but it inadvertently turns out Apple's black history back then, and the helplessness of always wanting to be a game manufacturer.

Published in the People's Post and Telegraph on December 15, 2023, Issue 383 of the column of "Le Youji".

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