You may be under appreciating how much effort goes into good old hacking in games, to make things look "natural" but with minimal HW footprint :) Cutting corner

You may be under appreciating how much effort goes into good old hacking in games, to make things look "natural" but with minimal HW footprint :) Cutting corners. Especially back in the day! It's more of an art. Applies to graphics, AI, audio...