Despite all that experience, we were still thrown for a loop by a recent demonstration of Doom running in the usually static confines of a PDF file. On the Github page for the quixotic project ...

A high school student found a way to run the classic PC game Doom from within a PDF file by leveraging the format's support for JavaScript and the Chromium browser engine.

There is a race to see who can bend the PDF file format to do the most impressive thing ... Instead, the port uses a separate text field for each row on the screen and sets its contents to various ...