A closer look
Doom was programmed so efficiently in 1993 that modern tech enthusiasts have made it a running internet joke to port the legendary demon-slaying shooter onto literally any electronic device possessing a screen and a microchip. The game has been fully verified to run on digital pregnancy tests, John Deere tractors, office printers, ultrasound machines, electronic toothbrushes, and even the touch bar of a deeply overpriced Apple MacBook. The source code is so remarkably lightweight and adaptable that getting Doom to run on wildly inappropriate household appliances is basically considered the ultimate rite of passage for bored computer science majors. It is incredibly funny to think that id Software set out to create a terrifying, controversial, ultra-violent masterpiece about defending humanity from the literal forces of Hell, and thirty years later we are using it to check if our smart fridges are properly calibrated. At this point, it is practically a scientific certainty that when humanity inevitably colonizes Mars, the first thing we will do is try to boot up Doom on the rover
