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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.

3 mo on HN

Sega Saturn CD - Cracked after 20 years

debuglive
3 HN recommender · 2016–2021
3 mo on HN

The Untold Story of Online Gaming on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis | XBAND

Wrestling With Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2019–2020
3 mo on HN

Fast Inverse Square Root — A Quake III Algorithm

Nemean
3 HN recommender · 2021–2022
2 mo on HN

Super Mario World -- Credits Warp in 5:59.6 (First Time Ever on Console)

SethBling
2 HN recommender · 2015–2022
3 mo on HN

How We Solved the Worst Minigame in Zelda's History

Linkus7
3 HN recommender · 2020–2024
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem - Another World

GDC Festival of Gaming
4 HN recommender · 2020–2023
3 mo on HN

Diablo: Original Game Development

jon d
3 HN recommender · 2021–2023
3 mo on HN

How "oldschool" graphics worked Part 1 - Commodore and Nintendo

The 8-Bit Guy
4 HN recommender · 2015–2019
2 mo on HN

POLYBIUS - The Video Game That Doesn't Exist

Ahoy
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
3 mo on HN

The Story of Tetris

Gaming Historian
4 HN recommender · 2022–2023
3 mo on HN

Classic Game Postmortem: Alone in the Dark

GDC Festival of Gaming
3 HN recommender · 2019–2023
3 mo on HN

Transport Tycoon 2014 Soundtrack (remaster with real instrument from original creator)

Arif Nur Rahman
3 HN recommender · 2020–2025
3 mo on HN

The largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games

Accursed Farms
3 HN recommender · 2024–2024
3 mo on HN

The Complete History of the A Button Challenge

Bismuth
3 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Speedrun in 22:38, live at AGDQ2013

CosmoSpeedruns
2 HN recommender · 2013–2015
2 mo on HN

Ocarina of Time TAS by dwangoAC, TASBot, Savestate, Sauraen in 53:05 - Summer Games Done Quick 2022

Games Done Quick
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

Super Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier

Keeper1st
2 HN recommender · 2017–2025
2 mo on HN

Elite: "The game that couldn't be written"

Alexander the ok
2 HN recommender · 2024–2025
2 mo on HN

Crash Bandicoot Co-Creator Andy Gavin: Extended Interview | Ars Technica

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

Pitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming
2 HN recommender · 2021–2024
2 mo on HN

Why Are Emulators Legal? Dolphin vs. Nintendo, and the Fate of Emulation [Great Emu War Pt. 1]

Moon Channel
2 HN recommender · 2023–2024
2 mo on HN

The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer
2 HN recommender · 2022–2023
2 mo on HN

Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)

CuriousMarc
2 HN recommender · 2018–2020
2 mo on HN

iMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless Transitions

Peter Silk (KestrelPi)
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

Zarch (1987) Gameplay for BBC Acorn Archimedes High Quality

Phoenix Risen
2 HN recommender · 2016–2020
2 mo on HN

How a Laser-Shot Disk Defeats Hackers & Pirates (Coding Secrets)

GameHut
2 HN recommender · 2018–2024
2 mo on HN

How Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun Solved Pathfinding | War Stories | Ars Technica

Ars Technica
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HN

How I implemented MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware

James Lambert
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

We Play Doom With John Romero

IGN
2 HN recommender · 2016–2018
2 mo on HN

Why does PUNCHING Sonic 3D trigger a Secret Level Select?

Coding Secrets
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HN

Tomb Raider on the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is incredible | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer
2 HN recommender · 2022–2022
2 mo on HN

GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future

/noclip
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HN

The History of Tetris World Records

Summoning Salt
2 HN recommender · 2024–2026
2 mo on HN

Hareraiser (The Worst Game Ever) - Stuart Ashen - Norwich Gaming Festival 2017

Norwich Games Festival
2 HN recommender · 2018–2023
2 mo on HN

Racing the Beam Explained - Atari 2600 CPU vs. CRT Television

Retro Game Mechanics Explained
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

The Story of RollerCoaster Tycoon | Noclip Greatest Hits

/noclip
2 HN recommender · 2021–2026