Step aside, Doom: Mad lad plays Minecraft using a receipt printer for reasons known only to him and God

I’m sure we all get that sudden, seemingly random urge to boot up Minecraft every now and then. And like any game as intensely moddable as the venerable voxel sandbox, each revisit is bound to become further divorced from the intended experience than the last. But here’s something really different: as if to explore the frontier of unintended ways to play Minecraft, YouTuber smillgames has elected to play it on a printer. The sort used in restaurants. Eyup.

Unlike the numerous attempts to play Doom on increasingly basic technology—a vape, or itself, for instance—this isn’t about getting the game itself to run on the device. In smillgames’ scenario, a different device is running Minecraft as normal. The receipt printer is merely used as a monitor of sorts, as he shared in a post on X.