For reasons unknown, one of the video game modding community’s most popular hobbies is forcing the most random of machines to play the classic DOOM.
For reasons also unknown, I really like this dumb, complex, and mostly fruitless trend, so let’s look at some of the weirdest places you can play DOOM thanks to some geniuses with a love for the game and some free time.
DOOM on Fortnite
Unreal Engine developer Jackson Clayton came up with a version of DOOM that runs inside Fortnite and even features Fortnite’s construction mechanics. You’re not just playing a version of DOOM inside Fortnite — you’re playing as the original Doom guy as if he’d been abducted and forced to survive on the Battle Royale Island.
The most beautiful part is the awkward gameplay, which really brings home the realities of an old man who cannot keep up with the games that the newer generations enjoy.
DOOM on a pregnancy test’s case
A few years ago, we got the news that someone got DOOM running on a pregnancy test. That’s not exactly true, as the modder removed most of what was inside the pregnancy test — even the CPU and display — but he still made a DOOM machine that looks like a pregnancy test, so that’s still cool.
In any case: congratulations, it’s a Doom. Please just avoid showing this instead of the actual results to your expecting loved one.
DOOM on a Tesla Car
I swear I didn’t just pick this one to engineer the ominous header. While it’s true that you can run doom on the screen of many-a-car nowadays, I like the idea of running DOOM on a Tesla specifically because these cars might sometimes go a bit mad. Don’t you love the idea of running DOOM on a car that might also prove to be your doom?
Doom on the Nintendo DS
You’d think that the only reason why we never saw an official port of the original DOOM for the Nintendo DS is that the tiny handheld was in no way equipped to deal with such a 3d powerhouse. You’d be wrong. The DS is totally capable of handling the original DOOM, as proven by the hack above.
DOOM on the NES
In fact, it turns out that even the original Nintendo Entertainment System can run the original DOOM — if you have a serious lack of eyesight and/or are ok with cutting down on a “few” graphical features.
Osciloscope
One of the weirdest places you can play DOOM is an Osciloscope. Osciloscopes are meant to measure voltage waves, but it seems like they can also serve purposes that aren’t boring. Case in point, this mad scientist got it to run Doom, and the best part is that this model, at least, runs it surprisingly well. Even the soundtrack sounds much better than it did on the Sega 32x!
Calculator (powered by potatoes)
And what about a devastating combo? Has anyone ever insulted your entire identity as a gamer by accusing your prized computer of being so slow it must run on a potato battery? Well, now you show that *sshole this video that’ll teach him it takes one hell of a lot of effort and potatoes to even get a calculator to barely run the most barebones imaginable version of DOOM.
DOOM on a Roomba
While a Roomba doesn’t come equipped with a monitor — likely because it wouldn’t be very practical to keep following it around to keep up with whatever you’re trying to watch — developer Rich Whitehouse decided, and succeeded, in turning it into a DOOM machine.
The coolest part is that instead of just running DOOM, this wild hardware mod allows Rich to control the Roomba as if it were the Doomguy in a sort of augmented reality map that is his house.
DOOM on Cells
It’s not a perfect port. It’s a really slow one, actually, but it’s a start. What I don’t know is if this is the start of something cool or the start of something devious.
PhD student Lauren “Ren” Ramlan is hijacking these poor cells to run a game, which I’m just going to say is very cool because I’m a bit frightened of what might come next. In The Matrix, the machines had us living in a world of their creation, These scientists are having these cells unwittingly run a game that they clearly aren’t equipped to run, and just for the memes. Wild stuff.
DOOM on DOOM
Well, you just knew it had to come full circle. YouTuber and modder kgsws came up with the greatest gaming-ception of all time by coding a version of DOOM that you can access through the original game — while it runs on a regular PC — I assume. Does that count as one of the weirdest places you can play DOOM? Or is it just DOOM?
We’ll update this list when we learn about some mad scientist who got DOOM to run inside a version of DOOM that’s running inside DOOM in Hell.
