Download the legendary Dooma for Atari 2600 -apkrig

Doom has always been a technological benchmark. From the moment he came out, players found out what and how he was running. And they judged the performance of their machines accordingly. And in modern times, it has once again become a symbol of efforts to port the game to almost every conceivable platform that has a screen. We have one such really unconventional attempt right now. So it’s more of a demo, because the target platform was the age-old Atari 2600 console.

You have to show a lot of imagination when watching the result. Nevertheless, you should be able to recognize at least three types of known enemies. The author, nicknamed Star Raider, is already planning further improvements such as new weapons or bosses. You can try the game yourself. It is available for free on the AtariAge forum.

Late but still

Of course, this is not the first or last such attempt. On the Atari 2600, people successfully tried to get both Maria and Sonica and many other well-known games that fans could only dream of at the time. Perhaps even more interesting, however, is that Dooma originally gave birth to a myth for the Atari 2600. Doom 2600 was a widespread mystification from the mid-1990s. Everything was created as a school project.

James Catalano was to create advertisements for some existing or fictional product. As a retro player, he created two fake images of the game itself, its cover, cartridge, and full-page magazine ad. It also contained the logo of the non-existent company Retroware Games. The result was so convincing that it began to spread on the Internet and reached Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM) magazine. Although with a warning that the information is not based on the truth.