YouTuber plays Minecraft on a receipt printer and somehow it actually works

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A Minecraft player has pushed the boundaries of challenging gameplay by modding the game to run on a receipt printer.

People have been finding creative – and unusual – ways to play video games for years. We’ve seen games like Doom running on everything from refrigerators to pregnancy tests! Recently, YouTuber Smill took things to the extreme by using a receipt printer as his computer monitor.

YouTuber plays Minecraft on a receipt printer

The system displays a new image every two seconds, averaging about half a frame per second. While the image is small, black and white, and noticeably laggy, it’s still recognizably Minecraft and, with enough patience, you can actually play it.

The video shows Smill exploring a game world as a printer steadily produces a long roll of screenshots. This creates a physical, paper timeline of his journey, but obscures his in-game items and most other game information.

Players enthusiastically embraced the unique concept, playfully comparing it to a slow-motion version of Minecraft – like experiencing every surprise attack with a significant delay. One fan even suggested a particularly difficult challenge: playing the game using a slow ink printer that takes 20 seconds to print each screenshot, guaranteeing a frustrating and dangerous experience with hazards like lava and Creepers.

Smill is famous for taking on incredibly difficult and unique challenges. He’s known for completing feats like playing an entire racing game while staying inside his RV, attempting a notoriously hard game while blind, deaf, and unable to speak, and even beating a scary horror game using only his vision – which takes a lot of courage!

This receipt printer challenge is just the latest in a series of amusingly difficult experiments he’s been doing, and the complete video will be available shortly.

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2025-11-27 18:48