Doom will run on a literal potato but apparently quantum computers still aren't powerful enough to run even this wireframe version natively
Quantum computing for gaming is a long way off it seems, so you're still better off playing it on your fridge/heart monitor/toothbrush.
Who would have thought that, all the way back in 1993 when it was first released, Doom would gain a second life as something of a hardware community project. Enterprising coders have repeatedly forced Doom to run on the most unlikely of hardware configurations, including 100 pounds of moldy potatoes (I kid you not), entirely within a motherboard BIOS, on a WiFi-equipped toothbrush, and even just completely generated by AI.
As for quantum computers, however? Well, while GitHub user Lumorti has created Quandoom, a recreation of the first level of the iconic shooter designed to run on the esoteric and highly experimental hardware, even they admit that a quantum computer does not yet exist that's powerful enough to run it. It is "effectively simulatable" on a laptop though, thanks to the QASM simulator.
Quandoom requires 70,000 qubits and 80 million gates to run. Currently, Atom Computing holds the record for the most powerful quantum computer, with 1,225 qubits. So, we're only looking at roughly 70x the qubits in order to enjoy ourselves a bit of Doom on a quantum machine then. No worries!
