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Retro Gaming & Hardware Ports

Retro Gaming & Hardware Ports

Articles on retro gaming hardware, Doom ports to unusual systems, homebrew game development, and the technical challenges of running classic games on legacy platforms.

retro gaming hardware portsJun 29, 20264 min

The Neo Geo Said No—and Doom Has Never Returned

How the Neo Geo's rigid sprite-only architecture made Doom technically unreachable without custom cartridge hardware—despite identical CPU specs to systems that did run it.