Hacker News with Generative AI: 80s

RIP Val Kilmer: Real Genius .. the Film Nerd Culture Deserves (2015) (reactormag.com)
It’s interesting to me that Revenge of the Nerds, while still full up of the nostalgia that the 80s lends us, is lately being repositioned in the zeitgeist.
Film, Culture, Nostalgia, 80s
318 points by MPSimmons 15 hours ago | 99 comments
Sublogic Flight Simulator (goto10retro.com)
One of the most impressive games of the 80s was Sublogic’s Flight Simulator.
Retro Gaming, Flight Simulators, Video Games, 80s
79 points by rbanffy 27 days ago | 28 comments
The Thompson Twins Adventure (C64 game on flexi disk vinyl) (wikipedia.org)
The Thompson Twins Adventure is a 1984 graphic adventure game that was distributed by Computer and Video Games magazine as a promotional[4] 7" flexi disc[1] "freebie" along with its October 1984 issue (issue 36).
Retro Gaming, Music, 80s, Video Games, C64
8 points by JojoFatsani 120 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: Why does current interest in retro computing focus on the early 80s?
Retro Computing, History, Technology, Computing, 80s
38 points by amichail 186 days ago | 85 comments