You will never believe -seriously- where they have managed to port Doom this time

Fans, not satisfied with that, have made it ubiquitous, creating playable versions on refrigerators, printers, and all sorts of devices. If it has a screen, ‘Doom’ can be played on it… and fans don’t know the meaning of “going too far.

Since its launch in 1993, Doom has appeared on literally dozens of different consoles, from Game Boy Advance to Atari Jaguar, passing through Sega Saturn and Super Nintendo. But fans, not satisfied with that, have made it appear everywhere, creating playable versions on refrigerators, printers, and all kinds of devices. If it has a screen, you can play Doom… and they don’t know the expression “going too far”.

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Listen to the Doom, Doom, Doom of my heart

Aaron Christophel, youtuber and technology wizard, has managed to install the game on the screen of a male masturbator called Tifforun that, for some reason, has a screen. Of course, as soon as Christophel could, he ordered it online, opened it up completely, and installed some additional components to make magic happen and get ‘Doom’ to work on a sexual device.

And you may be wondering “How does it work?”. Well, it’s not as difficult as it seems: there were already existing buttons to move forward, backward, left and right, and another button fires the weapon. In addition, if you kill an enemy, the machine fulfills its function once. However, you will need to kill a lot of enemies to achieve the purpose for which it was created. Phew. It’s not easy to speak euphemistically about this.

This fleshlight joins a gigantic list of devices where you can play the classic by Romero and Carmack, which includes everything from toothbrushes to a lawnmower, thermostat or the original iPod. Of course, if by this point you haven’t played ‘Doom’, you can’t use the excuse of not finding it anywhere.

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The hacker who used his skills to play ‘Doom’ on a printer

A basic hacker could take control and endlessly print test pages, blowing up some of your office supplies budget… or they could go further.

When John Carmack, John Romero, and Dave Taylor created ‘Doom‘ in 1993 for DOS, they probably never imagined that just twenty years later someone would manage to put the code on a printer’s screen and make it playable. At the time, the video went viral, but there was still one question left to answer: Why would someone do something like this? And the answer is an incredible journey through internet security.

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Canon is doomed

The protagonist of this story is Michael Jordon (no, he doesn’t play basketball), an online security expert convinced that the Canon Pixma printers, which the company had just released and were permanently connected to the internet, were extremely easy to hack. With that ease, anyone could obtain classified information, unique documents, or launch a virus that would spread throughout the office.

Or, as Jordon did, play ‘Doom’ on a tiny screen. You see, the Pixma has a small screen that allows for basic user interactions, such as checking if it’s functioning correctly, displaying ink levels, and so on. A basic hacker could take control and continuously print test pages, eating up part of your office supply budget—or they could go further.

Indeed, Canon’s firmware updates had a tremendous security flaw. They occasionally happened, even if no one cared, and were sent automatically over the Internet, changing the proxy and DNS settings. Since they didn’t require any password or username, it was eventually possible to hack their basic encryption system and force the printer to download whatever one wanted.

Even if it’s not connected to the Internet, it was terribly easy to get into the system and expose a company’s secrets. Or, as Jordon did, install ‘Doom’. The good part is that, after the video went viral, embarrassed Canon improved the security of their printers. Carmack probably didn’t imagine this either. The future is absolutely terrifying.

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Check your Halloween candy for copies of Doom

Finding strange contents inside your Halloween candy has become a little bit of a meme of late. While hiding small amounts of illegal substances inside Halloween candy wrappers is fairly easy to understand, the one thing no one really expected was to find a fully functional game inside a candy bar, namely, Doom.

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Thanks to a group of developers at Adafruit, this has now become a reality. The developers have created a Milky Way bar featuring a fully functional screen capable of booting up a copy of Doom. Even though this took a great deal of conceptualization and forethought, not to mention the actual development behind the immersive candy-coated Doom experience, this was primarily done in jest. 

The move to include something as unlikely as Doom inside a piece of candy is likely a harmless play on the age-old fear of finding illicit substances surreptitiously smuggled inside your Halloween treats. 

Check your Halloween candy for copies of Doom

Adafruit accompanied the photograph of their new gimmick development with a tongue-in-cheek statement reading: ‘Parents, please carefully inspect your kids’ Halloween candy! We found Doom running inside this Milky Way bar.’

This is, of course, also a play on the fact that people have been porting Doom to all sorts of machinery, devices, and even plain old objects. As of this year, Doom has been run on a tractor, rotary phone, Lego brick, and even a pregnancy test. The most motivated players have even managed to run Doom in their BIOS (Basic Input/ Output System) as well as Notepad, the Windows word processing utility. By the way, apparently, Notepad supports Doom with a smooth frame rate of 60fps.

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