Move Over Toasters: Doom Is Now Playable Inside a PDF

Doom has been ported to so many unexpected devices—toasters, refrigerators, you name it—that you might think there's nothing left to surprise us. But a high school student has achieved the seemingly impossible: porting Doom to a PDF file, playable directly in your browser.

Sure, it lacks a few bells and whistles like text and sound. But who needs those when you can conquer E1M1 while procrastinating on your taxes?

GitHub user and high school student ading2210, inspired by the TetrisPDF project, took on the challenge. Leveraging JavaScript within a browser's PDF reader, ading2210 overcame browser security limitations to bring Doom to this unusual format.

While it won't replace your PS5 anytime soon, the feat of running Doom inside a PDF file is remarkable, especially given its legibility.

TetrisPDF creator Thomas Rinsma, commenting on Hacker News, praised ading2210's version as "neater in many ways."

This might not be the ideal way to experience Doom for the first time, but the ongoing trend of running Doom on bizarre platforms—from devices to files (and even gut bacteria!)—remains endlessly entertaining.