Over the decades, people have managed to get the original Doom to run on all sorts of interesting devices, and a fan ports the game to Notepad.

Windows Notepad is a simple text editor that has been around since the 1980s. This software commonly allows users to create and edit basic text documents. Now, a developer has used this basic text ...

Balatro's first demo could be edited with Notepad to unlock the whole game—the solution? 'Bury it as soon as possible' with a 'newer, shinier version' Story by Harvey Randall • 15h ...

Editing a game file in Notepad unlocked the full version of Balatro, causing panic at the publisher - which responded quickly to the unfolding disaster.

LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely well-received Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus, has reprised that technohit with the same thing for 3D simulation.