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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.

2 mo on HN

Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained

Frieze
2 HN recommender · 2015–2025
2 mo on HN

Finding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64

Kaze Emanuar
2 HN recommender · 2023–2026
2 mo on HN

HandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games

Molly Rocket
2 HN recommender · 2021–2022
1 mo on HN

[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBC Pokémon: Yellow Version "arbitrary code execution" by Fracta[...] in 03:14.15

TASVideosChannel
1 HN recommend · 2013–2013
1 mo on HN

The Early Days of id Software

GDC Festival of Gaming
1 HN recommend · 2017–2023
1 mo on HN

Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo

Gaming Historian
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HN

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Secret Project: The Planetary Datalinks

matsku84
1 HN recommend · 2013–2020
1 mo on HN

Longplay: The Incredible Machine (1993) [MS-DOS]

Dosgamert
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

The History of 3D Graphics on the Gameboy Advance | minimme

minimme
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Chris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"

Chris Crawford
1 HN recommend · 2021–2025
1 mo on HN

The step-by-step, mechanical logic of old pinball machines

Technology Connections
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

Dark Castle (1986) - Original Macintosh Version!

Classic Mac Gaming
1 HN recommend · 2012–2022
1 mo on HN

The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3

Gaming Historian
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

The weeCee: A Tiny New MS-DOS & Windows Gaming PC!

LGR
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

Quake done Quick - Quake done Quickest

Quake done Quick
1 HN recommend · 2011–2014
1 mo on HN

Design Club - Super Mario Bros: Level 1-1 - How Super Mario Mastered Level Design

Extra History
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HN

New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping!

aGameScout
1 HN recommend · 2021–2024
1 mo on HN

Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market

Karl Jobst
1 HN recommend · 2021–2023
1 mo on HN

Sonic behind waterfall - RetroArch shader comparison

PenguinWeirdness
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Ben Heck's Nintendo-Playstation Prototype Pt 1 Teardown

element14 presents
1 HN recommend · 2016–2022
1 mo on HN

Why PlayStation 1 Graphics Warped and Wobbled so much | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
0 mo on HN

The Secret of Monkey Island (Intro) (PC Speaker theme)

Stan's Previously Owned Soundtracks
0 HN recommender · 2013–2025
0 mo on HN

Super Mario Bros 3 PC Prototype from id Software

usgamernet
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

Halo - Macworld Unveiling

Bungie
0 HN recommender · 2017–2025
0 mo on HN

Sony PlayStation: The Price Heard Around the World - "299" - (E3 1995 Keynote)

SoldierMWS
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HN

Cave game tech test

Nizzotch
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022
0 mo on HN

Atari XL/XE - Rescue on Fractalus [Lucasfilm Games] 1985

StaxX28
0 HN recommender · 2011–2025
0 mo on HN

Bill Gates Doom

raij
0 HN recommender · 2010–2024
0 mo on HN

Exploring Sid Meier's Pirates! - BASIC Code, Quirks, Bugs on Commodore 64

8-Bit Show And Tell
0 HN recommender · 2022–2026
0 mo on HN

Quake on an oscilloscope

pekkavaa
0 HN recommender · 2016–2025
0 mo on HN

The Secrets of Monkey Island - An Evening With Ron Gilbert

The Video Game History Foundation
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HN

Super Mario World: Arbitrary Code Injection At AGDQ 2014, Performed Live

invalidation
0 HN recommender · 2019–2025
0 mo on HN

Doom The Way it Was Meant to Be Played - v1.1 Multi-monitor

Tech Tangents
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

Your sound card works perfectly

Ricardo Lindooren
0 HN recommender · 2012–2025