Human ingenuity knows no boundaries, especially not when it comes to gaming. Despite having access to eight generations of perfectly good consoles designed specifically to play video games, intrepid, tech-savvy gamers can\u2019 t seem to stop modding everything with a chip and a screen to…<\/b>
\nHuman ingenuity knows no boundaries, especially not when it comes to gaming. Despite having access to eight generations of perfectly good consoles designed specifically to play video games, intrepid, tech-savvy gamers can\u2019 t seem to stop modding everything with a chip and a screen to play video games.
There\u2019s a difference between mini-computers\/ad hoc consoles \u2014 it\u2019s amazing what you can build with a Raspberry Pi \u2014 and running games on something that was never intended for that purpose. So this list won\u2019 t have anything like that \u2014 just the original hardware and software, hacked to run games.
Side note: you\u2019 ll notice most of these devices have been modded to play Doom specifically. This is because Doom \u2018s source code has been available for public use for 20 years. That\u2019s not to say they can only run Doom \u2014 but it\u2019s more impressive to watch the gory grandaddy of first-person shooters on a miniature screen than it would be to see, for example, Pong.
These are the weirdest things people have modded or hacked to play games on.
As revealed by Motherboard, someone hacked a TS100 soldering iron pencil to play Tetris. The real estate is miniscule at 5.5.mm by 2.5 mm, but it\u2019s got two buttons and a screen, so by gosh, we will play some Russian block puzzles on it.
The soldering iron heats up every time you lose, making it simultaneously the tiniest and riskiest Tetris game you\u2019 ll ever play.
Speaking of something that doesn\u2019 t have a lot of screen real estate \u2014 the narrow Touch Bar isn\u2019 t an ideal place to play a gory first-person shooter like Doom, but it can be done. As Bryan Clark pointed out when he first saw it, it\u2019s playable, only just.
At least it won\u2019 t heat up like a soldering iron.
Out of all the non-consoles hacked to play Doom, a car looks by far the most dangerous to actually play. YouTuber vexal demonstrates how to run Doom on a Porsche Cabriolet\u2019s smart display screen, using the car\u2019s wheel and gearbox as a controllers.
Unless you have access to a street layout exactly similar to the layout of Doom \u2018s levels, it\u2019 ll be difficult to play \u2014 though if you do, let me know. I want to move there.
If you ever get the urge to use some other piece of office hardware to play a game, then look no further than the Canon Pixma Inkjet printer. This was actually done for a practical reason: it was intended to demonstrate a security flaw in the Pixma\u2019s firmware. But it still shouldn\u2019 t surprise anyone that, when security researcher Michael Jordon had the chance to use any software in the world to point out the flaw, he chose to use Doom.
Playing a game on a thermostat simultaneously surprises me the most and the least out of everything on this list. On the one hand, it\u2019s a pretty complex piece of hardware similar to the PCs Doom originally ran on. But on the other hand\u2026 it\u2019s a thermostat. I pass by one every single day without thinking, \u201cBoy, if only I could hook my SNES controller up to that and enjoy a round of demon-killing.\u201d
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