[maffydub]

Cool hack, but I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!

A few years back, I built TeleDoom (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3-pje0PpfU) for the TADHack hackathon (http://tadhack.com/).

This allowed you to play Doom by calling a phone number, which connected via a VoIP trunk to an Asterisk server, which read your button presses and translated them into actions in Doom, and then streamed the result back over Twitch - trying to recreate the vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games! (These were a thing on Saturday morning TV in the UK.)

I never tested whether it would work with pulse-dial (i.e. rotary) phones - I think that would come down to the VoIP trunk provider!

This involved a VoIP trunk connected ot

[lisper]

> I thought this was actually going to be using phone calls!

Next year.

[oneshtein]

You can join army and practice Doom by phone or radio today!

[b112]

vibe of 80s/90s TV phone-in games!

Well that brings back memories. I recall "Ranger Bob" in Northern New York, Rochester I think, who used to host skits, and other things around cartoons. And they had a TV game where you'd yell 'POW' over and over to shoot things.

As a Canuck I'd watch US TV, and it's neat to know that the UK had such cultural similarities too.