The Playdate? Yeah, it runs Doom.

The Playdate is a curious handheld console under development by Mac software lifers and occasional game publishers Panic, with an odd concept about games being delivered wirelessly at regular intervals and, uh, a turn crank controller on the side. Might be cool.

Developer preview units have been sent out to a lucky, randomly-chosen few, like indie dev Nic Magnier, who thankfully decided to answer the question this blog’s existence eternally poses by way of adapting a pre-existing port of Chocolate Doom to an embedded platform.

The attempts to shove Doom’s detailed pixel art through a purely two-colour display are interesting, but a 3D game on this platform would definitely need artwork to be specifically authored for the display’s limitations. Might be a fun concept to play around with…

Thanks Mechadon for bringing this to my attention!