In the gaming and tech community's collective journey to port Doom to absolutely anything with a screen, a pregnancy test has been added to the list. Through some clever retooling and rejigging of the device's hardware, play the FPS game instead of wondering if you might be pregnant.
The contraption was created by hardware wizard Foone, who posted a thread on Twitter of their experiments on an off-the-shelf pregnancy test that eventually landed on whether or not it could play the demon-shooting classic. At first, Foone simply got a video of Doom playing on the test, but now the old PC game is fully playable, as seen in the tweet below.
There is a lot of cheating going on here - the screen has been switched out because the standard one can only display a set of symbols aligning with test results, and it's hooked up to a PC as a power source and way of switching what plays. But the visual of a level of Doom happening on an LED screen housed in a pregnancy test is hilarious, and has no doubt set off any number of tech-savvy fans to see if something actually playable using the device's limited buttons and assets isn't possible. Here's hoping Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson returns for the ensuing adaptation, Womb Eternal.
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