Doom ports book Kickstarter, Digi Mart USA News: Boss Fight Books is funding a new book on Kickstarter that catalogues some of the most unusual and technically fascinating ports of the 1993 first-person shooter Doom. According to the publisher’s article, the project celebrates tinkerers, hackers and programmers who collaborated to make ports on unlikely hardware possible.
The book, titled “But can it run Doom?”, covers ports to systems such as the Atari Jaguar and Super Nintendo, along with more unusual projects. These include a version of Doom running on a modified pregnancy test, a port to an Ikea lamp, and a port to the Playdate handheld.
The e-book is priced at $8 as part of the crowdfunding campaign and will be delivered without DRM as both a PDF and an EPub file in January 2027. The printed softcover costs $15, and the hardcover Ultimate Edition costs $30. Both physical versions include an e-book, which will be delivered in March and April 2027 respectively.
The Ultimate Edition is larger, measuring 23 x 15 cm compared with 18 x 13 cm for the standard edition, and runs to 224 pages instead of 168. It includes bonus content, primarily interviews with Aubrey Hodges, the composer of the soundtrack for Doom on the PlayStation and Nintendo 64, Doom creator John Romero, and John Carmack and Tom Hall.
The source notes that Boss Fight Books has already funded twelve books through Kickstarter. It also points out that crowdfunding campaigns always carry the risk of late delivery or defects in the finished products.
