There's a somewhat inexplicable urge among developers and hackers to port the ancient first-person shooter Doom to every piece of electronics with a processor and a screen. We've seen them do it to an ATM machine, a Samsung Gear Live smartwatch and even a virtual version within Doom itself.
The latest victim of this crazy trend is the Apple Watch. The 1993 video game was ported to Apple's smartwatch by a group of Facebook employees in Israel during a 10-hour hackathon at the company's Tel Aviv office.
Though itnew apple looks quite cool, we doubt anyone can actually play it on the Apple Watch's tiny screen. Lior Tubi, one of the developers behind the project, explains the trickery needed to enable a rudimentary user interface for the game.
"As you can't overlay UI elements on the watch, we used interface groups to create a 3x3 grid of buttons. The lower buttons are toggles for walking around, and the upper are used for shooting and opening doors," he wrote in a Facebook post.
Sounds like fun.
Another dev who worked on this port, Mehdi Mulani, later also managed to run the game on Apple's new Apple TV. Although it makes more sense, it's somehow far less impressive. Check out that port in the video below.