The Weirdest Devices That Can Play Doom, Including a LEGO Brick And An ATM

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Doom is one of the most influential video games of all time, but surely its creators had no idea how their work would eventually be immortalized. id Software's 1993 first-person shooter helped define the genre when it first released on PC. Now, its reach has gone far beyond PC, launching on everything from handhelds, to smartphones, to modern consoles, to... a LEGO brick?

"Will it run Doom?" is a longstanding internet challenge where modders and programmers attempt to get the game to run on any device imaginable. When you ask the question, "Will it run Doom?", the answer is — more often than not — yes. Below you'll find a list of some of the wackiest devices that can run Doom... with visual and gameplay quality varying greatly depending on the gadget.

In what may be the smallest possible way to play Doom, Twitter user James Brown actually got the game running on a LEGO brick. In the video below, you can see very fuzzy gameplay on a tiny, blue, angled LEGO piece. Brown says the resolution on the brick monitor is a whopping 72x40 pixels, with just 1 bit per pixel. While actually attempting to play and complete this version of Doom would be more painful than stepping on a LEGO brick, it's still an incredible novelty to look at.

I wired the brick up as a very small external monitor, so you can, for instance, play Doom on it. pic.twitter.com/uWK2Uw7Egr

Back in 2014, a few very crafty Doom fans figured out how to make Doom work on an ATM. In a YouTube video, the creators walk through how Doom works on the money machine, including use of the side buttons and the PIN pad. Some commenters suggested how the idea could be taken even further, including printing off a receipt with your score after each run, or forcing you to beat a level