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.
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2 mo on HNSuper Mario World Credits Warp Explained
2 mo on HNFinding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64
2 mo on HNHandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games
1 mo on HN[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by Fracta[...] in 03:14.15
1 mo on HNThe Early Days of id Software
1 mo on HNTengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo
1 mo on HNSid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks
1 mo on HNLongplay: The Incredible Machine (1993) [MS-DOS]
1 mo on HNThe History of 3D Graphics on the Gameboy Advance | minimme
1 mo on HNChris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"
1 mo on HNThe step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines
1 mo on HNDark Castle (1986) - Original Macintosh Version!
1 mo on HNThe Story of Super Mario Bros. 3
1 mo on HNThe weeCee: A Tiny New MS-DOS & Windows Gaming PC!
1 mo on HNQuake done Quick - Quake done Quickest
1 mo on HNDesign Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - How Super Mario Mastered Level Design
1 mo on HNNew NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping!
1 mo on HNExposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market
1 mo on HNSonic behind waterfall - RetroArch shader comparison
1 mo on HNBen Heck's Nintendo-Playstation Prototype Pt 1 Teardown
1 mo on HNWhy PlayStation 1 Graphics Warped and Wobbled so much | MVG
0 mo on HNThe Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme)
0 mo on HNSuper Mario Bros 3 PC Prototype from id Software
0 mo on HNHalo - Macworld Unveiling
0 mo on HNSony PlayStation: The Price Heard Around the World - "299" - (E3 1995 Keynote)
0 mo on HNCave game tech test
0 mo on HNAtari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985
0 mo on HNBill Gates Doom
0 mo on HNExploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64
0 mo on HNQuake on an oscilloscope
0 mo on HNThe Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert
0 mo on HNSuper Mario World: Arbitrary Code Injection At AGDQ 2014, Performed Live
0 mo on HNDoom The Way it Was Meant to Be Played - v1.1 Multi-monitor
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