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Kyle Campbell

Doom is now playable on Notepad

Someone has made Doom, the classic first-person shooter, entirely playable in Notepad. Yes – as in the Windows text app!

On Sunday, Twitter user Samperson shared footage of Doom running in Windows Notepad. It’s not smoke and mirrors, either – the whole game displays in ASCII art-like characters. Every iconic sound effect can also be heard too, from the Imp’s grunts to shotgun booms.

There’s only video footage right now, but a publicly available build is in the works and might come out sometime this week.

“It’ll take some work to polish Notepad Doom into something releasable,” Samperson said on Twitter. “But it’ll almost certainly happen over the next couple [of] days.”

Check out a clip for yourself below. Naturally, the video is of Doom‘s legendary E1M1 level.

It’s a little hard on the eyes, especially that constant flickering, but ridiculously impressive nonetheless. That soundtrack never gets old, truly.

Fans have been adamant about getting Doom playable on virtually everything for years. Back in June, someone got the game running on LEGO bricks even.

Despite Doom‘s age, it’s still quite popular. The blooming boomer shooter genre is entirely made of new shooters that play just like ID Software classics like Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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