It’s Now Possible to Play Doom Within Doom

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At this point in time, it would be difficult to come across a gamer who hasn't played at least one Doom title. At the very least, pretty much everyone is familiar with it in some form or another. As one of the best examples of an isekai game, which is a game where the protagonist gets transported to another world, the original 1993 release continues to influence fans and the industry at large. One such outlet for this inspiration is the many ways that id Software's classic can get ported to other devices.

One recent example is by kgsws, a YouTube user who recently uploaded a video of them getting Doom to run within Doom itself. It sounds pretty bizarre, but the end result is something to behold. There's a fairly lengthy discussion on coding, and the modder can be seen tinkering with the game by changing states of enemies and items. It then moves to them building a one room map, on which is a screen showing a running demo of the game. Essentially, kgsws is watching a playthrough of Doom while also running around inside the classic FPS.

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Things don't end there, either. They then take control of the second Doom game to show that it's possible to play either one, though the second version doesn't have sound. The video then shows a custom-built cinema, which shows the game as a kind of movie. There are so many wild things that Doom can be played on, and kgsws' own port is just one of many astonishing ways people can mod this beloved title. Examples by other fans include porting it to an iPod Mini, a vape pen, an old scanner, an ASCII text terminal, and someone has even got it to run inside Minecraft.

As one of the most influential and innovative first-person shooters ever, its legacy