Essentially the “program” was baked into the hardware design itself. It didn’t have a rom chip or something, it just had hardware circuits dedicated to each function, like drawing the paddle etc.

Man, scummvm has come a long way since I used it to play Sam and max on my GP32X

I mean, yeah, agreed in general but this wasn’t plastic.

The article doesn’t really highlight it, just says it in passing, but:

The structure itself is made of mortar, layered like dull-green frosting by a 3D-printing nozzle

So, it’s made of mortar (the stuff that holds bricks together normally).

Have they approached Madagascar? Feels in character for them to…