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Razor1911

Razor1911 on HackerTube: recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2026.

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Razor 1911's eponymous demo celebrating 40 years of the group, which won first place at the Revision 2026 demo competition and the public's choice award. It is a retrospective of keygen and warez scene culture with chiptune music.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as an impressive showpiece of the demoscene and a nostalgic career retrospective of a legendary group.

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2026
“This Razor1911 career retrospective demo from Revision was pretty impressive”
— RIMR, Jun 2026, in “Keygen.music”

What HN commenters said

3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.

MatMercerJul 2026Recommends

What a great thing to add to this: ▶ this video I'm not from this era and this article explains a lot of things from the video!

in “User Interfaces of the Demo Scene” · View on HN

RIMRJun 2026Recommends

It's so cool to see that some of these groups are still making incredible pieces of digital art as recently as this year! This Razor1911 career retrospective demo from Revision was pretty impressive: ▶ this video

in “Keygen.music” · View on HN

uzynApr 2026Recommends

This is so sick! Revision faded out the credits part, which is still really cool on its own. The full version (10m 16s) can be viewed at ▶ this video

in “Razor1911. A demo 40 years in the making” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Demoscene & retrocomputingMusic performance & songsdemoscenerazor 1911keygen musicchiptuneretro computing