Hacker News with Generative AI: Video Games

The Making of Lego Island: A Documentary [video] (youtube.com)
Gamers Suspect That Elon Musk Is Faking It (forbes.com)
Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX, is suspected of lying about his ability to play video games.
The Longest Journey – A Retrospective (2007) (rockpapershotgun.com)
A game that almost vanished.
The Game Boy Talk [video] (media.ccc.de)
The 8-bit Game Boy was sold between 1989 and 2003, but its architecture more closely resembles machines from the early 1980s, like the Commodore 64 or the NES. This talk attempts to communicate "everything about the Game Boy" to the listener, including its internals and quirks, as well as the tricks that have been used by games and modern demos, reviving once more the spirit of times when programmers counted clock cycles and hardware limitations were seen as a challenge.
GamersNexus Files New Lawsuit Against PayPal and Honey [video] (youtube.com)
Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years? (moral.net.au)
If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail; a simulation of the hardships faced by a group of colonists in 1848 as they travel by covered wagon from Independence Missouri to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
I built the C4 from Counter-Strike 2 [video] (youtube.com)
Bad Apple but it's 6,500 regexes that I search for in Vim (eieio.games)
Why should I leave vim to watch a video?
Virtual Vette – Racing Simulator Built from Wrecked Corvette (instructables.com)
This project started because I was looking for a way to encourage and reward my son, Daniel, for earning his Eagle Scout rank.
Elon Musk Is Lying About Being Good at Video Games (youtube.com)
How Pac-Man Revolutionized Gaming (2020) (mitpress.mit.edu)
When Pac-Man arrived in 1980, it didn’t just become a popular video game. It transcended video games. There was Pac-Man cereal in grocery stores, a Pac-Man cartoon on television, and even a hit Pac-Man song on the radio. In other words, Pac-Man blew onto the scene with a scale of cultural impact that video games, already an international phenomenon, had never previously achieved.
Disassembly of Pokémon Red/Blue (github.com/pret)
This is a disassembly of Pokémon Red and Blue.
Railroad Tycoon II (filfre.net)
In this reviewer’s opinion, Railroad Tycoon II was a sparkling creative success as well as a commercial one, making it all the more deserving of remembrance.
Cloud AI for Video Games Is Dead on Arrival, On-Device Is the Future (atelico.studio)
100 Slaps: The Breaking News the Games Industry Ignored in 2024 [video] (youtube.com)
Tax Heaven 3000, a dating SIM that prepares your federal taxes (taxheaven3000.com)
Do your federal taxes while Romancing your waifu!
A swashbuckling tale of Italian software piracy – 1983-1993 (2022) (genesistemple.com)
Everyone had a favorite videogame shop as a kid, where plenty of happy – or perhaps, not-so-happy – memories took place. Maybe it was EG or a Game, if one is UK based, or perhaps a Gamestop, Blockbuster or a mom-and-pop shop even. As for me, well, most of my games, as a child, I bought them at newspaper kiosks.
The Atari STACY was launched in 1989 (archive.org)
The Atari Stacy was launched in 1989.  Atari had been talking about  a portable ST since 1986, but it was fast tracked for launch when the ST became increasingly more popular with musicians, and feedback was such that it was a viable product to launch for this niche market alone.
A Pixel Parable (olano.dev)
“How would you like to work on video games?”
Former Age of Empires developer says the RTS genre's stuck in a rut (pcgamer.com)
Alexey and Henk, the friends who took Tetris out of the Soviet Union (elpais.com)
One man invented a video game that has sold more than 520 million copies. The other fought to obtain the rights to it during the Soviet era, got the game’s designer out from behind the iron curtain, and made it possible for half of humanity to dream of colored blocks just as the Berlin Wall was collapsing.
The Invention of Battlezone (2022) (ieee.org)
Three-dimensional displays first appeared on computer screens in the 1960s, and very large machines could manipulate those images in real time, but it was not until 1980 that a video-game player could maneuver at will through an imaginary landscape, wreaking havoc until brought to an untimely end by enemy tanks.
Feelie (wikipedia.org)
A feelie is a physical item included to supplement a video game.
Why Half-Life 3 speculation is reaching a fever pitch again (arstechnica.com)
New leaks and cryptic clues point to active development the long-awaited sequel.
Sega prepares to go back to the future (theguardian.com)
Sega started as a rock’n’roll breath of fresh air in a Nintendo-dominated world – and America and Europe CEO Shuji Utsumi wants to shake things up once again
Show HN: A remake of my 2004 PDA video game (nicollet.net)
In 2022, I found an archive DVD with the C++ source code, sprites, sounds and music of my 2004 video game Darklaga Cannonball Symphony. It could no longer be built (due to missing proprietary dependencies), so I decided to re-implement it as a late evening hobby project.
Developer details for PICO-8 Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater (twitter.com)
No Budget, No Plan, 15M Sales: How We Made Palworld (note.com)
3日後に命運が決まる、パルワールドという偶然の物語
Finding and exploiting hidden features of Animal Crossing's NES emulator (2018) (jamchamb.net)
While looking for ways to activate the developer menus left over in Animal Crossing, including the NES emulator game selection menu, I found an interesting feature that exists in the original game that was always active, but never used by Nintendo. In addition to the NES/Famicom games that can be obtained in-game, it was possible to load new NES games from the memory card.
Team 17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57 (timeextension.com)
We're sad to report that Team17 co-founder Martyn Brown has passed away. He was 57.