Human ingenuity knows no boundaries, especially not when it comes to gaming. Despite having access to eight generations of perfectly good consoles designed specifically to play video games, intrepid, tech-savvy gamers can’t seem to stop modding everything with a chip and a screen to play video games.
There’s a difference between mini-computers/ad hoc consoles — it’s amazing what you can build with a Raspberry Pi — and running games on something that was never intended for that purpose. So this list won’t have anything like that — just the original hardware and software, hacked to run games.
Side note: you’ll notice most of these devices have been modded to play Doom specifically. This is because Doom‘s source code has been available for public use for 20 years. That’s not to say they can only run Doom — but it’s more impressive to watch the gory grandaddy of first-person shooters on a miniature screen than it would be to see, for example, Pong.
These are the weirdest things people have modded or hacked to play games on.
Soldering Iron
As revealed by Motherboard, someone hacked a TS100 soldering iron pencil to play Tetris. The real estate is miniscule at 5.5.mm by 2.5 mm, but it’s got two buttons and a screen, so by gosh, we will play some Russian block puzzles on it.
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