Are you saying that Wii Sports is nearly as old now as Super Mario Bros was when Wii sports released? Because Wii Sports came out in 2006?

Because SMB came out in 1985 and …

…

Jesus Christ.

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