Well, if you mean because you get to do fun stuff like this then yeah!

This work is not really a product of higher education though. It's one of creativity, tenacity, good programming and more than that a deep knowledge of the NES architecture! Most people have the capability to do the last two regardless of education!

The more I read about 8 bit computing the more amazed I am. Needing a very detailed knowledge of the underlying system was a given then, unlike today. What's massively impressive is that some hit games back then were developed by teens in their bedrooms (so no grad school!). Miles away from the game industry we see today!

Having hung out with Tom 7: Grad school didn't make him like this, he just has an absolutely insane level of drive to create cool things. I don't think he could stop if he tried. And like most things, the way you get good at "making cool and hilarious hacks / techno-art" is to do a lot of it. So start hacking! :-)