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Game history & retro gaming Videos Recommended on Hacker News (106)

Game history & retro gaming is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 106 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2010 and 2026 — 310 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Game history: arcade, Atari, NES, early PC games, Doom and Quake development, console history, retro gaming preservation, classic game postmortems, hardware of old consoles.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on 8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box: “I recommend this talk to anyone who is interested in the details and history of working on limited colour palette games!” — an HN commenter, 2024.

17 mo on HN

8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box

GDC Festival of Gaming
13 HN recommender · 2018–2026
12 mo on HN

Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!

suckerpinch
12 HN recommender · 2018–2025
10 mo on HN

The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)

media.ccc.de
10 HN recommender · 2017–2026
9 mo on HN

How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
13 HN recommender · 2020–2026
9 mo on HN

The Engoodening of No Man's Sky

Internet Historian
9 HN recommender · 2020–2025
10 mo on HN

Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

suckerpinch
9 HN recommender · 2015–2025
9 mo on HN

SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW

SethBling
9 HN recommender · 2016–2025
7 mo on HN

'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming
8 HN recommender · 2018–2023
7 mo on HN

FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)

Kaze Emanuar
7 HN recommender · 2022–2025
6 mo on HN

How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes

Morphcat Games
6 HN recommender · 2019–2026
6 mo on HN

Old pinball machines are amazingly complex

Technology Connections
6 HN recommender · 2023–2026
5 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2017–2021
5 mo on HN

2 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time

Adrian Crenshaw
3 HN recommender · 2014–2026
5 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

GDC Festival of Gaming
5 HN recommender · 2018–2024
5 mo on HN

"Games as a service" is fraud.

Accursed Farms
5 HN recommender · 2019–2024
5 mo on HN

MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark

MC Frontalot
5 HN recommender · 2012–2026
5 mo on HN

GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary

Google TechTalks
5 HN recommender · 2014–2026
4 mo on HN

Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS

Ahoy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2017
4 mo on HN

The Road to PS5

PlayStation
6 HN recommender · 2020–2023
4 mo on HN

How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
5 HN recommender · 2020–2026
4 mo on HN

How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
4 HN recommender · 2020–2024
4 mo on HN

The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

VblankEntertainment
4 HN recommender · 2014–2022
4 mo on HN

Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)

GameSpot
4 HN recommender · 2013–2025
4 mo on HN

[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution

MrWint
4 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Mega Drive - Revision 2017 (1st Place)

Oerg866
2 HN recommender · 2017–2026
4 mo on HN

Atari's Quadrascan Explained

Retro Game Mechanics Explained
3 HN recommender · 2021–2026
4 mo on HN

The First Video Game

Ahoy
4 HN recommender · 2020–2026
3 mo on HN

RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island

Ahoy
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
4 mo on HN

How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
3 HN recommender · 2018–2026
3 mo on HN

Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer
3 HN recommender · 2020–2022
3 mo on HN

[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track

Summoning Salt
3 HN recommender · 2018–2018
3 mo on HN

Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary

Valve
3 HN recommender · 2024–2025
3 mo on HN

Alpha Centauri Quotes: Intro and Tech's 0-24

uvwar
3 HN recommender · 2016–2020
3 mo on HN

QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote

QuakeCon Official
3 HN recommender · 2011–2018
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2018–2025
3 mo on HN

what did you do

Noodle
3 HN recommender · 2025–2026