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.

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' advertisement ...

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

Representative Image (Credit -- Bethesda) 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.