Fellow's Espresso Machine Can Run Doom, and Yes, It Shoots

A Reddit user known as FullExtraction has added another entry to the long list of unlikely gadgets that can run Doom, and this one makes coffee. Using custom firmware, they got the 1993 shooter running on the small circular screen of a Fellow Espresso Series 1. Out of the box, that display walks you through choosing a drink, whether an americano, a cappuccino, or a straight shot, and then counts down the extraction timer.

The controls are improvised but workable. The brew button starts the game, the steam button fires, and the scroll wheel turns Doomguy left or right. A wider-angle video shows the game moving at a steady frame rate, which is the detail that makes the hack more than a novelty. Whether anyone wants to play a shooter while waiting on their espresso is a separate question, but the engineering is hard to dismiss.

The machine joins a crowded field of devices that have been pressed into running id Software's classic. An Anker smart-charging station once played the game with no hardware modifications at all. Someone else turned a pregnancy test into a playable build, and Fortnite, one of the biggest games around, can run it too. Doom has long served as the unofficial test of whether a piece of hardware can compute anything, so it is no surprise the coffee maker made the cut.

The timing is awkward for the franchise's current developer. Doom: The Dark Ages launched in May 2025, and its Revelations expansion followed. Shortly afterward, id Software was hit with mass layoffs. Reports have said the studio was working on a co-op Doom project and a Perfect Dark game, and the cuts could affect both. How much they will change those plans has not been confirmed.