It's become a meme to tell if a video game is a classic death They can be played on almost any type of device or platform, and the popular file format is the latest in this long line.

Crypto Bros has got a basic shooter It runs on Bitcoin Besides Dogecoin Cross it She denied-Like protocols, named respectively ordinal and dogenalswhile students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hypothesized that it could be operated using Gut bacteria.

Now, an alleged high school student by name Ading2210 on GitHub Made it possible for anyone to play death In a portable document format, commonly referred to as PDF. Players can simply Open the game Within their Chromium-based browser — Google Chrome, Brave browseretc. - and operate using either buttons in the document or keyboard controls.

Admittedly, it's a bit corny. The game launches, but with a heavily pixelated monochrome image and no sound. But it's more about the feat of playing death Within a PDF document, rather than PDF files are the next frontier for gaming. In other words, it is unlikely that anyone will do so He wants To play Doom via a PDF file, we now know that it is possible.

This has long been both a joke and a technical challenge in the popular 1993 first-person shooter. In 1997, developer id Software made Doom open source, turning the game into a favorite for fans and hobbyists to experiment with.

Over the years, developers have managed to get Doom running Cash ATM, Lawn mowerspregnancy tests, bitcoin, dogecoin, ChatGPTAnd now PDF files. And that's just the tip of the iceberg, too. In fact, there's a Reddit community dedicated to this exact issue called r/ItRunsDoom With over 100,000 members.

On this subreddit, our Doom PDF generator proudly boasts Spread his creationexplaining how he did it. Simply put, he discovered that PDF files supported Javascript and that older versions of the Emscripten compiler could convert the game code to work in that system, as long as he used a watered-down version of the game.

Although the post was liked on Reddit, it is still far from the community's favorite post of all time. He is currently in the lead Death works in minecraftwith other future creations such as Doom on an iPod, Ticket checkerand A vape-We could really go on forever.

Modified by Andrew Hayward