The 90s FPS game Doom is powered by Dogecoin through Ordinals

Dogecoin (DOGE), a blockchain born from memory and innovation, is now hosting Doom after a 90s first-person shooter game developer wrote his game in the network.

Using the Dogecoin Ordinals protocol, an anonymous developer called “Doginals” has created a “mini Doge” with an X-inscribed doom on the Dogecoin blockchain, where anyone can access the encrypted link and play the classic game on their computers or mobile phones.

Doom was first released in 1993 and became one of the most popular games of the time. According to Mini Doge, a free version of Doom was written in the Dogecoin network to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary. The game in the blockchain contains nine game levels that can be published without running into legal issues.

After being based on Bitcoin (BTC), the Ordinals protocol has entered the Litecoin (LTC) network, an anonymous Twitter user with the username Indigo Nakamoto has offered $500 in LTC to anyone who can bring the Ordinals protocol to Litecoin. After this, DOGE enthusiasts followed Doge Labs, which enabled the protocol to be deployed on Dogecoin.

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As a result, users can write images, videos and audio to the two blockchains. In the year On May 18, the Dogecoin network reached a new 24-hour transaction record of 1.2 million transactions due to the arrival of the Ordinals protocol in the DOGE blockchain.

Sheebs, officially decided by the one and only @MilkRoadDaily: #Doginals on #Dorsey20.

#Cardinals It's been a good few days with you! pic.twitter.com/ta2ZDIXrbB

– Doge Labs | Dogecoin Standard (Doginals) and Drc-20 (@verydogelabs) May 18, 2023

Before Doom was deployed on the Dogecoin blockchain, other developers wrote classic game emulators on the Bitcoin blockchain using Ordinals. On January 8, developers at Bitcoin Ordinals portfolio tracker Ninjalerts deployed an emulator on Satoshi for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

Ninjalerts CEO Trevor Owens cited research showing that 90% of classic video games are at risk. The executive argued that Bitcoin is the best place to preserve games that are “cultural digital heritage” for future generations.

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