A company has managed to get classic Doom to run inside some candy, complete with a tiny screen inserted into the fake chocolate bar. As one of the most important video games of the 90s, especially in the first-person shooter genre, id Software's iconic release has had a major impact on the industry over the years. Today, the series is still very much in vogue thanks to the 2016 reboot and Doom Eternal follow-up. But even the original entries are still in the gaming limelight.
Much of that is down to the sheer number of ways that fans have ported the game over the course of nearly three decades. The influential 1993 FPS has been shown to run on a multitude of devices not intended for the game, including someone who managed to get Doom running in Notepad. The game has also been seen playing on a John Deere tractor, in a ticket validator, a vape pen, an iPod mini, and inside Minecraft. It's even been possible to play Doom within Doom itself, showing just how creative the modding community is as it challenges itself in these extraordinary ways.
This latest endeavor from a New York based hardware manufacturer called Adafruit Industries is just one other way of getting Doom to run on unusual devices. In this case, it's a Milky Way bar, with a video showing the candy being unwrapped to reveal a tiny screen that's got the game already playing. The video itself is a joke commercial that warns parents to check their kids' candy this Halloween and look for any signs of Doom hidden within. The ad ends with the delicious slogan, "Do not eat if it's Turing complete." It should be pointed out that the chocolate bar is almost certainly fake, but it's a nice nod to a meme that has been doing the rounds recently, which showed a photoshopped image of the game inside some real chocolate.
As well as all the ways Doom has been ported, there have been a wealth of mods that have been released over the years, with more still coming out. Take the mod that allows Doomguy to battle a mecha-Margaret Thatcher, or the one that turns the Doom protagonist into Hank Hill.
It cannot be overstated just how influential the original games were, and they are still making an impact to this day. When the FPS series switched to true 3D, with the originals technically being 2.5D, though some debate this, id's high-octane franchise has managed to stand the test of time, and it will be interesting to see what other bizarre ways Doom can be ported.
Doom released in December 1993 for multiple platforms and has been ported to many systems.
Source: The Gamer