Obscure

Super late to this party, but for the record's sake I wanted to mention Bomb Squad for the Intellivision. Any time that I sit through a bad "hacking" minigame, I wonder why I couldn't just be solving one of Bomb Squad's circuit boards instead.

If you're unfamiliar, Bomb Squad was a game in which you have to replace or remove parts on a series of circuit boards. A voiceover tells you which components to change, then you switch between tools to first clip the wires leading into a given part, second drag the part out of the circuit, third grab either a generic wire or a replacement part and drag it into place, and fourth solder the new component into the circuit. Occasionally you have to switch to a fire extinguisher to put out flames on an overheating part, as well.

There's more to it than that, and the over-arching game involves completing circuit boards in order to light up the pixels of a display that shows the titular Bomb's disarm code, but the circuit boards make for such a neat speed puzzle that it's absolutely tragic there haven't been more modern iterations of the design.