Demoscene & retrocomputing Videos Recommended on Hacker News (136)

Demoscene & retrocomputing is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 136 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 293 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Retro computing: demoscene, Commodore 64, Amiga, 8-bit machines, assembly programming, tracker music, vintage hardware tricks, old PC demos, emulation.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on elevated by Rgba & TBC | 4k intro (FullHD 1080p demoscene demo): “It demonstrated that 4k was more than sufficient for impressive effects and music” — an HN commenter, 2020.