Dogecoin blockchain is hosting Doom, a first-person shooter (FPS) game from the 1990s after a developer recorded the game on the network to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
A developer going by the alias “Mini Doge” on X, utilizing the Dogecoin Ordinals protocol, also known as “Doginals,” etched Doom onto the Dogecoin blockchain. Individuals can access the inscription link and use their computers or mobile devices to engage in the classic game.
Since its initial release in 1993, Doom has remained one of the most well-liked video games. In observance of the game’s 30th anniversary, the accessible version of Doom was reportedly inscribed into the Dogecoin network, as reported by Mini Doge. Legal complications do not apply to the publication of the nine-game levels contained within the blockchain.
An anonymous Twitter user with the handle Indigo Nakamoto offered a reward of $500 in Litecoin to anyone who could port the Ordinals protocol from Bitcoin to the Litecoin network, facilitating the protocol’s migration from Bitcoin to Litecoin. DOGE Labs, a devotee group for Dogecoin, subsequently enabled the protocol deployment.
Users can encode audio, video, and images into the two blockchains. With the introduction of the Ordinals protocol to the DOGE blockchain on May 18, the Dogecoin network surpassed 1.2 million transactions in 24 hours.
Other developers inscribed a classic game emulator into the Bitcoin blockchain using Ordinals before the deployment of Doom on the Dogecoin blockchain. Ninjalerts, a Bitcoin Ordinals portfolio tracker, had developers deploy a Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) emulator on a Satoshi on January 8.
As the group unveiled the inscription, Trevor Owens, CEO of Ninjalerts, cited a study indicating that 90% of classic video games were in jeopardy. Additionally, the executive posited that Bitcoin was the optimal medium for safeguarding games that constituted “cultural digital artifacts” for posterity.
