---
title: "Sorry Folks, That Photo of Doom Running on a McDonald’s Kiosk Is Fake"
description: "Doom fans spotted something wrong with a photo of the game running on a McDonald's kiosk — it's fake. Video shows a real fan playing Doom on a till, though."
date: "2022-07-02"
modified: "2022-07-02"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/doom-mcdonalds-photo-fake-kiosk"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "Doom"
  - "hacking"
  - "McDonald's"
  - "the digest"
---

# Sorry Folks, That Photo of Doom Running on a McDonald’s Kiosk Is Fake

![Doom fans spotted something wrong with a photo of the game running on a McDonald's kiosk — it's fake. Video shows a real fan playing Doom on a till, though.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/doom-mcdonalds-photo-fake-kiosk.png>)
*\<em\>Image: yosupjt / fleebs\_cg / Twitter\</em\>*

## McFaker

A few Doom fans spotted something wrong with a viral photo that supposedly showed the 1993 classic running on a McDonald's ordering kiosk. Bad news, folks: turns out it's almost certainly a fake.

The saga started with a [Thursday tweet](<https://twitter.com/yosupjt/status/1542549369014161409?s=20&t=M16-wB0EIgzq_fBBSski_g>) in which a pseudonymous user posted a shot of an apparently hacked touchscreen kiosk at the fast food chain. The user claimed somebody had installed Doom using the old-school keypad on a small device plugged into the screen at the bottom, show below.

https://twitter.com/yosupjt/status/1542549369014161409?s=20&t=zzxLMtLfAEGElely4Hxvfw

The pic got so much attention it ended up [in *PC Game*r yesterday](<https://www.pcgamer.com/someone-got-doom-running-in-a-mcdonalds/>), but an astute observer pointed out in the original tweet thread that the photo is very likely edited.

"This is a fake Photoshop," [the user said Thursday](<https://twitter.com/GalacticFurball/status/1542596680154882048?s=20&t=dYcZeRxqXFeWA-KL_2XZPQ>), posting the supposed original image from an old Reddit thread. The pic shows the same kiosk with the same people walking in the background, but this time with a "blue screen of death" instead of Doom.

https://twitter.com/GalacticFurball/status/1542596680154882048?s=20&t=zzxLMtLfAEGElely4Hxvfw

## Mischief Managed

Doom fans don't have to mourn for long, though, because players have love getting [the game to run](<https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a33957256/this-programmer-figured-out-how-to-play-doom-on-a-pregnancy-test/>) in places it [really doesn't belong](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/captcha-human-playing-doom>). In fact, the fact-checking thread itself features a video that would much harder to fake.

"Former McDonalds manager here," [one user replied](<https://twitter.com/fleebs_cg/status/1542874692993708034?s=20&t=Z40BM1LpDmGtF2srE1b5Mg>), fulfilling everyone's great need to see Doom on a fast food screen. "This is something I actually did back in 2020 on one of the McDonald’s tills on the front counter."

The video, shown below, sure enough features the demon-blasting shooter on a cashier's till. The fake might've been disappointing but the short clip satisfied our hunger — and we're lovin' it.

https://twitter.com/fleebs_cg/status/1542874692993708034?s=20&t=zzxLMtLfAEGElely4Hxvfw

**More on Doom**: [*Scientist Who Trained Rats to Play "Doom II" Says He May Start Twitch Channel*](<https://futurism.com/viktor-toth-doom-rat>)