I remember some video about a playstation (?) game where it did some realllly weird shit to push the 3D capabilities beyond what the engineers intended, by reallocating some space and bandwidth onboard the playstation console itself. Do you remember watching that by chance?
I'm not familiar with that specific instance of game developer creativity, but I know the early game industry was full of very out-of-the-box thinking and amazing coding due to the limitations of the hardware. Nearly every game console and home computer back then had shining examples of programmers who really pushed the hardware to the edge in order to make better games. Those guys were some of the best and brightest programmers to ever live but now we have troons, faggots, pajeets and blue-haired harpies ruining games and software development in general. We need to flush this toilet and get that shit down the drain where it belongs. Make programming White men again.