The release of DOOM back in 1993 changed computer games forever. It was like Wolfenstein 3D but with monsters instead of Nazis, and our minds were blown by the fact that it had EIGHT guns plus a chainsaw. Over time it's been ported to nearly every device with a screen.

The creation of the modern piano at the turn of the 18th century was also a bit of a big deal. Without it there would have been very little for Lawrence to do in School of Rock.

But a team of game developers at London Hackspace have cobbled together a beaten up old £30 piano into the hottest new arcade machine on the planet.

As you can see below, the keys have been linked to commands so that by playing the piano you can also play DOOM!

The screen was later moved into the piano, which has also been decorated to celebrate its new purpose.

The white keys are divided into regions that perform different functions (turn, strafe, change guns etc.) and you can fire your weapon with any of the black keys. One of the white keys was missing a string and makes a "thunk" sound, so that was assigned to open doors or flip switches.

Precise technical details haven't come out yet; team leader David Hayward has only said it consists of "a piano, three IPACs, and a whole load of wiring."

However he has commented on a CNET article that he plans to make a short YouTube video and write things up. When talking about his team and the creation of the machine, he noted the following:

"Every one of us did some work on the Doom Piano, whether it was moving it, decorating it, wiring it, advising on materials, or working on Doom's source code (Because piano hammers are designed to only briefly make contact with the strings, we had to edit it to make keypresses more persistent. Initially, basic movement required a lot of hammering on the keyboard!). Between us we made four different arcade machines this weekend, but this one is by far the most elaborate!"

Good God, they made it in a weekend?!

Here it is in completed form:

Take that Mozart!

What computer games would you turn regular household items into?