Game History & Retro Gaming Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2

documentary#2336

The Complete History of the A Button Challenge

Bismuth

“The amount of knowledge and abuse of bugs these guys are performing is insane.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

demo#2351

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

CosmoSpeedruns

“The level of reverse-engineering is impressive.”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2015

demo#2485

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

Games Done Quick

“absolutely blew me away”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

music#2563

Super Mario World Ending Theme sight-read by Tom Brier

Keeper1st

“He's a rare gem and a treat to the ears.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2025

documentary#2617

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

Alexander the ok

“has an amazing video on this”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

interview#2640

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

Ars Technica

“I recently watched and loved this extended interview with him about making Crash Bandicoot”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#2664

Pitfall: A Classic Game Postmortem

GDC Festival of Gaming

“I'm linking at the relevant timestamp, but the whole video is pure Atari 2600 goodness.”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

explainer#2679

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

Moon Channel

“I really recommend folks watch this, from a lawyer”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

documentary#2726

The Story of Another World on the Amiga | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer

“A great video about Another World's graphics and the capabilities of the Amiga”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

demo#2739

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

CuriousMarc

“it's quite an impressive machine.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

demo#2820

iMUSE Demonstration 2 - Seamless Transitions

Peter Silk (KestrelPi)

“considered a high point in video game music. 1. A video demo”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

demo#3020

Zarch (1987) Gameplay for BBC Acorn Archimedes High Quality

Phoenix Risen

“It's an awesome 3D game from 1987 (with truly awful sound).”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

explainer#3085

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

GameHut

“I thought the two methods described in this video were both good”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

interview#3099

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

Ars Technica

“Ars Technica had a series of 10 minute videos where they interviewed developers about technical challenges.”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

demo#3110

How I implemented MegaTextures on real Nintendo 64 hardware

James Lambert

“James is like Kaze”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

interview#3176

We Play Doom With John Romero

IGN

“in this fantastic developer commentary he did for the game's first episode with IGN”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2018

explainer#3187

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

Coding Secrets

“For those who don't know, Burton explains this in depth here”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

explainer#3197

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

Modern Vintage Gamer

“I found some fascinating coverage of the OpenLara project, specifically for the port of Tomb Raider to the GBA.”

2 HN recommenders · 2022

documentary#3285

GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future

/noclip

“Noclip has a great documentary about it”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

documentary#3362

The History of Tetris World Records

Summoning Salt

“made a great video that covers the history of Tetris world records”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026

talk#3392

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

Norwich Games Festival

“Ashens has a nice presentation on the video game version of "Masquerade”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

explainer#3434

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

Retro Game Mechanics Explained

“Here’s a detailed video by retro game mechanics that shows how the logo graphics of the infamous E.T. game is rendered”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

documentary#3454

The Story of RollerCoaster Tycoon | Noclip Greatest Hits

/noclip

“Folks may also like the noclip documentary on RollerCoaster Tycoon”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2026

explainer#3472

Super Mario World Credits Warp Explained

Frieze

“Detailed explanation of how the credits warp exploit works”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

explainer#3500

Finding the BEST sine function for Nintendo 64

Kaze Emanuar

“This guy puts a lot of work into figuring out if there is a faster way to do trig calcs on the N64”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2026

talk#3511

HandmadeCon 2016 - History of Software Texture Mapping in Games

Molly Rocket

“Some interesting related stuff in this talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022

demo#3553

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

TASVideosChannel

“One of my favourites”

1 HN recommenders · 2013

talk#3576

The Early Days of id Software

GDC Festival of Gaming

“the rest of the talk is very inspiring - so listen to the hour-long video”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

documentary#3666

Tengen: Atari Games vs. Nintendo

Gaming Historian

“Highly recommended to learn about the technical and legal details of the lawsuit that shaped gaming industry landscape to this day.”

1 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

other#3676

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

matsku84

“The special projects videos in that game are some of the best science fiction creative work ever made, IMO.”

1 HN recommenders · 2013–2020

demo#3691

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

Dosgamert

“Absolutely adored this game as a child.”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

documentary#3856

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

minimme

“For a good overview of the progress of 3d GBA graphics over the console's lifespan I'd reccomended this video history”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

talk#3941

Chris Crawford Dragon Speech "I Had a Dream"

Chris Crawford

“Perhaps of interest: the dragon speech, delivered by chris crawford at the first video game developers conference in 1992”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

explainer#3980

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

Technology Connections

“It goes horribly in-depth (in a good way).”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

demo#4070

Dark Castle (1986) - Original Macintosh Version!

Classic Mac Gaming

“arguably the best non-educational game for the original Macintosh”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

documentary#4120

The Story of Super Mario Bros. 3

Gaming Historian

“And at GDC, they talked about their Chemistry engine for BotW”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

demo#4235

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

LGR

“If you want to play games on real hardware but don't feel like collecting (and troubleshooting) old hardware.”

1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023

demo#4260

Quake done Quick - Quake done Quickest

Quake done Quick

“I highly recommend one of the”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2014

explainer#4312

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

Extra History

“To get a sense for this, watch this video [1] (from 7 years ago) walking through the design of level 1-1 of SMB.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

explainer#4581

New NES Tetris Technique: Faster Than Hypertapping!

aGameScout

“fascinating 9-minute YouTube video that explains the latest NES Tetris competitive tech”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2024

documentary#4661

Exposing FRAUD And DECEPTION In The Retro Video Game Market

Karl Jobst

“It's almost an hour long piece of effectively investigative journalism”

1 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

demo#4664

Sonic behind waterfall - RetroArch shader comparison

PenguinWeirdness

“here's a video that shows the Sonic waterfall in motion with various CRT-simulating shaders applied on top”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

demo#4711

Ben Heck's Nintendo-Playstation Prototype Pt 1 Teardown

element14 presents

“The first part of the video[1] is also worth watching.”

1 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

explainer#4751

Why PlayStation 1 Graphics Warped and Wobbled so much | MVG

Modern Vintage Gamer

“The explanation actually blew my mind.”

1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022