All the Weird Things You Can Play Doom On And Why
Released back in 1993, few could have imagined the heights to which Doom would rise, making it one of the most successful PC games of its time. Today Doom continues to thrive across an expanse of films, tabletop games, novels, and comics, but chief among them is the rebooted series of games for next-gen consoles with the latest entry Doom: Eternal. It might be strange to learn then that even in spite of these recent games, the original Doom continues to be ported by players, and stranger still ported to all manner of gadgets and devices that were objectively not designed to play the infamous FPS.
Examples of Doom ports range from the weird to the downright bizarre, including the likes of high-end Apple Watches to outdated photocopiers and scanners. Understanding how this is possible is a first step to determining why players might want to continue to port this cult classic on toy chainsaws or grand pianos, and it could further help explain why avid programmers would go out of their way to create such unusual and creative ports. Whether it has become its own absurdist art form or if it's just a committed fan base keeping a formative game alive and well is anybody's guess, but there's no denying the trend has been hugely popular and shows no signs of faltering.
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The reason why Doom is ported so readily is due to various factors behind its development and distribution. First and foremost, Doom broke tradition from other games of its time by being made publicly available as open-source and originally released as shareware by id Software. A Linux version of Doom'scode was made available in 1997, but it didn't take long for programmers to reverse engineer its original 1993 version.
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