Joke WAD

A Joke WAD is a WAD file which is made as a joke. This may take one of several forms:


 * Some joke WADs are parodies of badly made WAD files: for example, they may include deliberate bugs, look generally sloppy, or use ridiculous graphics. Certain joke WADs are actually fun to play; Mock 2: The Speed of Stupid, for instance, which was intentionally designed not to look serious at all.
 * Some joke WADs may take the engine to ridiculous extremes: nuts, for example, contains more than 10,000 monsters and playing it is nearly impossible — even on powerful machines — because of the resulting low FPS.
 * The "Doomworld Forums" series of maps parodies the Doom community. The original dwforums.wad parodied the Doomworld forums community; its follow-up, dwforums2.wad, parodied the IRC channels popular with Doomers, and a third release, dwforums3.wad, parodied events on the NewDoom forums.
 * Some WADs are so badly designed that it is hard to tell whether they are joke WADs (in any of the above senses) or not.