Can someone explain to me the appeal of these virtual console projects? Is it like lock picking or demoscene in a sense that you need to figure how to achieve impressive things under tight constraints?
I feel like it is the same form of intellectual stimulation that one gets from crosswords or sudoku but with an added creative dimension. Where crosswords and sudoku present a challenge with a fixed target goal, the demo scene and virtual consoles give you the difficulty with an open ended goal.
Code golf is somewhere in the middle, Often you have a fixed goal, but there is no one 'right' solution, creativity can find many paths to achieve the desired output while reducing line or character count.
