American biotechnologist Lauren Ramlan from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has managed to run the legendary 1993 first-person action video game Doom on a computer system using intestinal bacteria. Unusual development in the game attracted attention portal Rock Paper Shotgun (RPS).
In previous years, researchers and enthusiasts have run Doom on all sorts of systems and devices, from smart refrigerators to electronic pregnancy tests to mouse brains in a laboratory tank.
Ramlan created a 1-bit, 32 x 48 pixel black and white display made from E. Coil cells. Each bacterial cell acts as a separate pixel and is activated using a special fluorescent protein.
Despite its functionality, the bacterial platform turned out to be very slow; It took approximately 8.5 hours to display one frame of the game.
By comparison, if Doom takes about five hours to complete on average and the original game runs at 35 frames per second, it would take 599 years to overcome all the levels using the power of the gut microflora.
Previously aspiring developer was created Version of Doom that works on older TVs with teletext functionality.