You can play Doom in this NY Times article about how you can run Doom almost anywhere (in a PDF, on an iPod, on a pregnancy test, on a treadmill, etc.) “Doom was developed in a really unique way that lent a high degree of portability to its code base.”
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Fun fact: You can play asterioids on this article from 2012:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html
I recall an article from the late 90's or early aughts (I think it might have been in Wired) which grappled with the definition of "computer". As a broader array of devices became capable of performing computing tasks of one sort or another, how were we to draw the line between what was and was not a "computer"? The article concluded, only half-jokingly, that from now on they were going to define a "computer" as "anything that could be made to play Doom."
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