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It’s hard to think of a worse way to play Pong than 240 browser tabs.

If you find yourself with a hankering for retro gaming and only have access to a macOS computer running Google Chrome, developer Nolen Royalty has created a painful way to play Pong, as spotted by Tom’s Hardware.

You can download Faviconic, described by Royalty as “a tool for running games inside your tab bar,” from GitHub, but performance appears to be absolutely abysmal once gameplay transitions into hundreds of favicons.

Pong being played across hundreds of Chrome browser tabs.
Developer Nolen Royalty has shared the source code for a tool that can play Pong across 240 Chrome browser tabs on macOS.
Image: Nolen Royalty
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