Yeah, it's 8 buttons. I imagine they'd be over the leds and some kind of pivot mechanism presses the leaf switch that's underneath the pcb. I think the 7segs won't be angled when you have the toy in front of you. In other words, pcb itself would sit rotated inside the toy.
A lot of these old games have aged badly, so I can't say they canceled it because the game isn't fun. But the lock-up bug I mentioned is a good reason to cancel it.