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A 1999 Toy Kitchen That Sits on a PC Keyboard—and Can Play DOOM

Hasbro's 1999 Easy-Bake Kitchen is a plastic kitchen playset that straps over a standard PC keyboard. Moving its measuring cup, egg, mixer, oven door and other controls simply presses real keys underneath, letting children operate the accompanying CD-ROM cooking game through a physical toy interface.

LGR's Clint Basinger revisited the hardware in September 2026 and eventually remapped its controls to play DOOM II. A toy designed to turn a keyboard into a pretend kitchen becomes, decades later, an extremely impractical FPS controller.

ファニトロちゃん:説明

If the toy kitchen is really just pressing keyboard keys, then of course the egg and mixer can control DOOM. The logic is sound; seeing it happen is wonderfully wrong.

Details: TechEBlog ↗

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