Surprise, Doom Runs on the New Game & Watch Console

Doom has appeared on everything from calculators to pregnancy tests. Why should Nintendo's new Game & Watch console be any unlike?

The Game & Sentry re-release is now dwelling house to a scaled-downward version of Doom, likely to the surprise of no one. YouTuber stacksmashing managed to accomplish the feat, just non without making several compromises commencement.

Though the game is running on the Game & Watch, stacksmashing had to end upward taking out several textures, removing the audio, and reducing screen resolution to bring the parcel together. Only despite all of the changes required to brand the game run, it still does and then, with panache.

The video in a higher place offers up an explanation behind the process as well as a shut look at the game running on the device. Stacksmashing advises in the video they will be releasing another video that explains bringing Doom to the system even further.

With the Game & Sentinel'due south hack that'south already occurred days afterward the arrangement striking store shelves, nosotros'll likely exist seeing a lot more projects just like this 1. Doom is likely only the tip of the iceberg. Of course equally long as at that place are diminutive pieces of hardware, people will keep to attempt and run Doom on them. That seems like one of the unwritten rules of the universe at this bespeak.

Otherwise, the Game & Scout can officially run the original Super Mario Bros. in bright colour every bit well every bit Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. It also includes a special Game & Sentry game in the form of Ball, with Mario front and center. Though it's a collectible piece of Nintendo history, it's capable of running several titles, many of which we've seen through the hacks that take surfaced over the last calendar week or so.

If you'd like to go your hands on 1 of the systems yourself, they're available at present.