So Pavlov’s dog is where a human rings a bell and the dog salivates, but Jaymin’s cat is where the cat rings a bell and a human prepares food? Theory all checks out!

Please tell me you considered Crayon Sin-chan?

All the best games started out life as VU1 coding competition entries.

Sooo… game dev jobs in Hokkaido, anyone?

It’s not “missing a vital GPU feature”, it’s “leaving some fun for the software guys”.
Also as a bonus you’ll make life utter hell for anyone who tries to emulate your chip accurately on other hardware! (For bonus points, invent a wacky non-standard framebuffer blend mode too just to rub it in…)

Very cool writeup! One small typo I spotted - unless I’ve misunderstood something completely “course” should be “coarse” in “I spent a month falling down a SuperTile-shaped course rasterization hole”.