Finding strange contents inside your Halloween candy has become a little bit of a meme of late. While hiding small amounts of illegal substances inside Halloween candy wrappers is fairly easy to understand, the one thing no one really expected was to find a fully functional game inside a candy bar, namely, Doom.
Thanks to a group of developers at Adafruit, this has now become a reality. The developers have created a Milky Way bar featuring a fully functional screen capable of booting up a copy of Doom. Even though this took a great deal of conceptualization and forethought, not to mention the actual development behind the immersive candy-coated Doom experience, this was primarily done in jest.
The move to include something as unlikely as Doom inside a piece of candy is likely a harmless play on the age-old fear of finding illicit substances surreptitiously smuggled inside your Halloween treats.
Adafruit accompanied the photograph of their new gimmick development with a tongue-in-cheek statement reading: ‘Parents, please carefully inspect your kids’ Halloween candy! We found Doom running inside this Milky Way bar.’
This is, of course, also a play on the fact that people have been porting Doom to all sorts of machinery, devices, and even plain old objects. As of this year, Doom has been run on a tractor, rotary phone, Lego brick, and even a pregnancy test. The most motivated players have even managed to run Doom in their BIOS (Basic Input/ Output System) as well as Notepad, the Windows word processing utility. By the way, apparently, Notepad supports Doom with a smooth frame rate of 60fps.
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