DOOM MOWER: LAWN OF THE DEAD
Since its 1993 debut, fans have attempted to run the iconic video game Doom on very non-standard consoles, including pregnancy tests and refrigerators, powering Doom with potatoes, controlling the character with a rotary phone, and displaying the game on E. coli bacteria.
These days, Doom runs on anything from an air hockey table to a literal keyboard keycap. You can even make it (or at least its video output) run within Notepad! Yet of all the devices not intended for playing Doom, who'da thot one that produces sweet green leaf mowed grass smells would be next?
Recently Husqvarna, the Swedish manufacturer of outdoor cultivation equipment, announced the next software update to its robotic lawnmower Automower NERA models will permit users to play Doom, albeit just episode 1, Knee-Deep in the Dead.
The main caveat is this is a time-limited offer that will end in September 2024. You must also opt-in to receive the game in the April software update. More limiting, though, is where the update is available. Alas, US Doom lovers may be out of luck.
In any case, even if they appreciate gaming, not everyone would like Doom to run on their Automower. One needn't have seen Terminator movies to know teaching self-controlled robots with powerful blades to kill everything in sight will not end well.
- Via Neatorama & Tom's Hardware