MojangA Minecraft player has taken the idea of cursed setups to a new level by playing the game on a receipt printer.
Video games have been pushed onto strange hardware for years. Doom has been played on a fridge and even on a pregnancy test. Every now and then, someone takes it further by choosing a device that barely shows any detail at all. This time, the experiment belongs to YouTuber Smill, who replaced his PC monitor with a receipt printer.
YouTuber plays Minecraft on a receipt printer
The setup prints a fresh frame every two seconds, which comes out to roughly 0.5 frames per second. Of course, the image is tiny, monochrome, and constantly delayed, but it is technically Minecraft, and it is technically playable if you have the patience.
In the video, Smill walks around the world while the printer slowly feeds out a continuous strip of screenshots. The result looks like a long paper timeline of everything he has seen, and completely blanks out his inventory and most of the game’s details.
Fans of the game loved the creative idea and were quick to react, joking that it “feels like playing Minecraft by mail. Every creeper jump scare is on a delay timer.” Another fan said, “Next hardcore challenge, play with a regular ink printer that takes 20 seconds to print out a screenshot,” which would be a surefire way to get yourself trapped in lava or blown up by a Creeper.
Smill is known for going all in on unusual challenges. His channel includes playing Schedule 1 without leaving the RV, tackling Peak blind, deaf, and mute, and beating Five Nights at Freddy’s with only his eyes (that’s brave).
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So, the receipt printer run fits perfectly into his catalog of painful but entertaining experiments, with the full video releasing soon.