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Wait till they find out how the original Doom was distributed.
How?
Portals through hell.
Painstakingly daisy-chained systems, from the sub-optimal to the bizarre, all dutifully proliferated DOOM along the line. Some say it originated in a Casio watch, others a coffeepot, and a rare few believe it was a tamagotchi. Whatever that system-zero was, it changed video gaming forever.