Not particularly. It was just a cult classic that many modders wished to keep playing. Over time running it on random things became a bit of a meme so people just kept running it.

The amount of power available to old games was miniscule compared to modern consumer electronics and many could be "run" the same way.

Some of them are alsobjusr straight jokes involving inserting different hardware into a shell of something, like the pregnancy test one that went around recently.