Setting up a brand new Windows laptop computer, or putting in a contemporary copy of Windows on a machine, is type of a slog. While it doesn’t take a number of hours prefer it used to (thanks, SSDs!), it’s nonetheless a variety of time urgent one or two buttons, then watching a loading display and ready for the following button to look. Microsoft may be assuaging a few of the boredom by taking that sport you have been enjoying off your telephone and simply slapping it within the setup course of.

The sport in query is Edge://surf, Microsoft Edge’s reply to Chrome’s offline T-Rex runner sport for the browser. As The Verge notes, this top-down, pixelated browsing sport performs roughly the identical as SkiFree, a freeware sport added to Windows 3.0 waaaaay again in 1991, and duplicated and emulated on numerous platforms ever since. The browsing sport is a little more polished and colourful, but it surely has the identical important steer-ing-only setup.

The sport is showing within the setup course of for the most recent Microsoft-branded {hardware}, the Surface Laptop Studio 2 and Surface Laptop Go 3. It might or might not seem for the remainder of the Windows world throughout Windows 11 installations as the new version propagates to both PC manufacturers and users. But for those who’re determined to play it whereas Windows boots for the primary time, you possibly can head to edge://surf in Edge — it even works on the telephone model of the browser.