Hacker News with Generative AI: Retro Gaming

Station: Travel Through the Four Seasons (1994) (gingerbeardman.com)
After reaching 1 million files in my Macintosh Magazine Media project, I thought it would be cool to post about something I found recently in those discs. I get a real buzz rediscovering something like this after more than 30 years have passed.
Retro Gaming, Nostalgia, Macintosh, Digital Media
20 points by msephton 4 days ago | 0 comments
An Ode to the Game Boy Advance (brainbaking.com)
In March 2001, Nintendo introduced an advanced portable model to the gaming market with the release of the Game Boy Advance (GBA, codenamed Advanced Game Boy or AGB). Equipped with a modernized 32-bit ARM CPU running at twice the speed of the Game Boy Color (GBC), this small device was more than capable of playing SNES-like games—still at the price of only two AA batteries.
Gaming, Retro Gaming, Nintendo, Video Games, Hardware
78 points by Brajeshwar 4 days ago | 40 comments
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, spent $100K+ designing parts (tomshardware.com)
Retro Gaming, Hardware, Business, History, Atari
29 points by wojtczyk 5 days ago | 0 comments
In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio (newslttrs.com)
So there I was, minding my own business, doom-scrolling my way through Facebook posts when I happened upon one that hit me straight in the nostalgia. A photo of a 1980s home computer, a cassette player and some tapes. The text underneath proclaimed "In the 1980s, people could download video games from radio broadcasts by recording the audio onto cassette tapes. These tapes could then be played on computers to load the games".
Retro Gaming, History, Technology, 1980s
287 points by spzb 6 days ago | 146 comments
Amiga Online Emulator (oszx.co)
Hi There :) Thanks for visiting my site! I created this site because I have a lot of good memory's of the Amiga system. Growing up my Amiga was the first decent computer I owned and I had alot of fun learning its secerets and playing really great games such as alien breed, another world, flashback and so many more... I hope you get half as much enjoyment playing these games now that I got playing them "back in the day"...
Emulation, Retro Gaming, Amiga
7 points by doener 6 days ago | 2 comments
A decompilation and port of Sonic Advance 2-a GameBoy Advance game written in C (github.com/SAT-R)
⚠️ This project is not completed and still under active development
Game Development, Programming, Video Games, Retro Gaming, C Programming
182 points by bane 7 days ago | 39 comments
Golang on the Playstation 2 (rgsilva.com)
I always wanted to do some weird stuff with consoles. I’m not sure why, but making devices do unexpected things is always an interesting topic for me. And the same applies to the PlayStation 2, the 2000 console released by Sony.
Programming, Retro Gaming, PlayStation 2, Golang
200 points by donatj 7 days ago | 11 comments
Glider for Apple II (colino.net)
A lot of people my age that touched Macintoshes in the nineties know that game, Glider, written by John Calhoun. I recently started wanting to try and program a game for the Apple II as it is something I never attempted before, and I wanted to see if I got good enough at 6502 assembly for that.
Retro Gaming, Apple II, Assembly Language, Programming
114 points by rbanffy 8 days ago | 23 comments
Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic – Leaded Solder (leadedsolder.com)
I picked up a complete Nintendo Family BASIC package for my freshly composite-modded Famicom. Let’s see if I can remember enough BASIC to take advantage of this package and build a horizontally-scrolling space shooter game. Oh, and fix the cartridge first, of course.
Retro Gaming, Programming, Nintendo, BASIC, Game Development
5 points by rbanffy 9 days ago | 0 comments
Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later (kotaku.com)
Occasionally the stars align and a once-in-a-generation group of creatives come together to make something spectacular and ahead of its time. That’s how Chrono Trigger was made, an RPG for the SNES that came out 30 years ago this week and still blows me away.
Video Games, Retro Gaming, RPGs
73 points by PaulHoule 10 days ago | 31 comments
Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean (gizmodo.com)
“Playstacean” is more than a pun, it’s a meme that’s transformed into an actual console, and it may be the cutest, working version of Sony’s long-defunct PSOne in the 25 years since its initial launch.
Gaming, Hardware, Retro Gaming, Memes
108 points by ulrischa 10 days ago | 23 comments
Ultima III for the Vic-20 (wordpress.com)
VIC 20 Ultima III is a faithful conversion of the original C-64 version. All game logic is included as-is. VIC 20 specific graphics and sound routines were created from scratch. The 16×16 pixel tile graphics from the C-64 version were carefully adapted to 8×16 resolution, flat-pixel tiles on the VIC 20.
Retro Gaming, Video Games, VIC-20, Ultima III, Conversions
7 points by todsacerdoti 11 days ago | 0 comments
The Vectrex Computer (amigalove.com)
Believe it or not, the Vectrex stand-alone unit can now be transformed into a home computer!
Retro Gaming, Hardware, Computer History
96 points by erickhill 12 days ago | 40 comments
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate (filfre.net)
Video Games, RPGs, Retro Gaming, History
72 points by doppp 13 days ago | 44 comments
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate (filfre.net)
Video Games, RPGs, Retro Gaming, Gaming History
7 points by cybersoyuz 13 days ago | 0 comments
US Atari parts store still open after 41 years, spent $100K+ designing new parts (tomshardware.com)
Retro Gaming, Hardware, Business, History
9 points by bookofjoe 14 days ago | 0 comments
Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web (github.com/smparsons)
Retro Boy is a simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust that can be played on the web. Try it here.
Retro Gaming, Rust, Web Development, Emulators
338 points by ingve 14 days ago | 107 comments
In 1997, Age of Empires was just coming out. My job was to design a new RTS game (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Video Games, Game Development, History, Retro Gaming
6 points by tosh 16 days ago | 0 comments
U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years (tomshardware.com)
Retro Gaming, Business, History, Consumer Electronics
12 points by speckx 18 days ago | 1 comments
SNES consoles have been quietly overclocking themselves for 35 years (gamesradar.com)
Gaming, Retro Gaming, Hardware
7 points by cempaka 18 days ago | 2 comments
Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite (homeip.net)
The Amiga 600 was one of the last Amigas, and it became a symbol of everything wrong with Commodore and the product line.
Retro Gaming, Hardware, Amiga, Computer History
162 points by rbanffy 18 days ago | 103 comments
Why SNES hardware is running faster than expected and why it's a problem (arstechnica.com)
Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.
Retro Gaming, Hardware, Technology, Gaming
46 points by plzdotheneedful 19 days ago | 10 comments
Copyright and the Demoscene (Scandal Amiga Demo) (datagubbe.se)
Being eight years old and not speaking any English whatsoever meant that my early understanding of Amiga games was somewhat patchy. Nevertheless, some things will make an impression no matter what. Take German cracking group Unit A's 1988 cracktro for the flight simulator Interceptor, for example.
Copyright, Demoscene, Retro Gaming, History
3 points by marinbala 20 days ago | 2 comments
How to Beat NES Mario in 5 Microseconds [video] (youtube.com)
Video Games, Gaming, Retro Gaming, Speedrunning
8 points by Wii2 21 days ago | 1 comments
Game Boy Advance Architecture – A Practical Analysis (copetti.org)
The internal design of the Game Boy Advance is quite impressive for a portable console that runs on two AA batteries.
Hardware Design, Gaming, Retro Gaming, Portable Consoles
72 points by chw9e 22 days ago | 7 comments
Let's Make a Space Shooter with Nintendo Family Basic (leadedsolder.com)
I picked up a complete Nintendo Family BASIC package for my freshly composite-modded Famicom. Let’s see if I can remember enough BASIC to take advantage of this package and build a horizontally-scrolling space shooter game. Oh, and fix the cartridge first, of course.
Retro Gaming, Programming, Nintendo, Game Development
9 points by zdw 23 days ago | 0 comments
Installing Windows NT on the Nintendo Wii [video] (youtube.com)
Windows NT, Nintendo Wii, Retro Gaming, Emulation, Technology
3 points by rvnx 24 days ago | 1 comments
My Colony Memoir (2005; about 1988 3D Mac game) (croquet.zone)
Retro Gaming, Mac Games, History, Gaming Culture
3 points by networked 26 days ago | 0 comments
GameBoy retro games to play online (on IPFS to stay there forever) (dweb.link)
Retro Gaming, Gaming, Web3, Decentralized Web, IPFS
56 points by evgy 26 days ago | 18 comments
The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: Long Live Dungeons and Dragons (filfre.net)
In December of 1997, Interplay Entertainment released Descent to Undermountain, the latest licensed Dungeons & Dragons computer game. It’s remembered today, to whatever extent it’s remembered at all, as one of the more infamous turkeys of an era with more than its share of over-hyped and half-baked creations, a fiasco almost on par with Battlecruiser 3000AD or Daikatana.
Video Games, RPGs, Retro Gaming
17 points by cybersoyuz 27 days ago | 7 comments