My mind went straight to the SNES too, but with Chaos Seed, the feng shui dungeon building oddity. I have a feeling people might be familiar with SNESdrunk around here, though.
I only started diving into nix this year so I'm still learning, but yeah, I'm pretty sure the lack of granular versioning is a common pain point with nixpkgs. I'd suggest checking out flakes if you haven't already, but be warned, it gets hairy lol
Brb, just making sure The Picard Maneuver isn't in the student directory before I go to school tomorrow