The "Can it run DOOM?" meme has been running for so long that it's basically a law of physics at this point: if a device has a screen and a button, someone is going to shove the 1993 shooter onto it. But the Casio Loopy? That one actually made me laugh out loud.

Released in 1995, the Loopy is a pastel-colored Japanese console aimed squarely at young girls — think sticker-printing, drawing, and a handful of super-cutesy games. It is, by any reasonable measure, the last retro machine you'd expect to see id Software's demon-killing classic running on. And yet, a developer just ported DOOM to it. Not only does it run — it can even use the Loopy's built-in sticker printer to... print screenshots? Post-demonic scrapbooking, anyone?

This isn't a practical achievement. It's not going to change how you play DOOM. But that's exactly the point. The porting scene keeps finding ways to breathe life into forgotten hardware, and every time a weird little machine gets a DOOM port, that hardware's story gets a second chapter. The Loopy went from "weird footnote" to "actually, you have to respect that."

If love letter to gaming history had a smell, it'd be thermal sticker paper and melted 90s plastic. This rules.