Game history & retro gaming
1:25:348 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
GDC Festival of Gaming
Picked by 13 · 2018–2026
22:21Reverse emulating the NES to give it SUPER POWERS!
suckerpinch
Picked by 12 · 2018–2025
1:01:07The Ultimate Game Boy Talk (33c3)
media.ccc.de
Picked by 10 · 2017–2026
31:37How Crash Bandicoot Hacked The Original Playstation | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
Picked by 13 · 2020–2026
53:51The Engoodening of No Man's Sky
Internet Historian
Picked by 9 · 2020–2025
16:18Computer program that learns to play classic NES games
suckerpinch
Picked by 9 · 2015–2025
6:31SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMW
SethBling
Picked by 9 · 2016–2025
1:17:43'Diablo': A Classic Game Postmortem
GDC Festival of Gaming
Picked by 8 · 2018–2023
18:20FIXING the ENTIRE SM64 Source Code (INSANE N64 performance)
Kaze Emanuar
Picked by 7 · 2022–2025
12:04How we fit an NES game into 40 Kilobytes
Morphcat Games
Picked by 6 · 2019–2026
50:09Old pinball machines are amazingly complex
Technology Connections
Picked by 6 · 2023–2026
1:02:15Classic Game Postmortem: Sid Meier's Civilization
GDC Festival of Gaming
Picked by 4 · 2017–2021
52:472 1 1 Jason Scott Rescuing The Prince of Persia from the sands of time
Adrian Crenshaw
Picked by 3 · 2014–2026
59:47Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online
GDC Festival of Gaming
Picked by 5 · 2018–2024
1:15:54"Games as a service" is fraud.
Accursed Farms
Picked by 5 · 2019–2024
5:09MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
MC Frontalot
Picked by 5 · 2012–2026
2:01:18GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
Google TechTalks
Picked by 5 · 2014–2026
14:37Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPS
Ahoy
Picked by 4 · 2015–2017
52:45The Road to PS5
PlayStation
Picked by 6 · 2020–2023
20:49How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
Picked by 5 · 2020–2026
23:24How Myst Almost Couldn't Run on CD-ROM | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
Picked by 4 · 2020–2024
10:45The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)
VblankEntertainment
Picked by 4 · 2014–2022
1:00:12Pitfall Classic Postmortem With David Crane Panel at GDC 2011 (Atari 2600)
GameSpot
Picked by 4 · 2013–2025
7:45[TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Execution
MrWint
Picked by 4 · 2020–2025
8:24TiTAN - Overdrive 2 (RGB 50fps) - SEGA Mega Drive - Revision 2017 (1st Place)
Oerg866
Picked by 2 · 2017–2026
20:57Atari's Quadrascan Explained
Retro Game Mechanics Explained
Picked by 3 · 2021–2026
1:00:50The First Video Game
Ahoy
Picked by 4 · 2020–2026
1:13:54RetroAhoy: The Secret of Monkey Island
Ahoy
Picked by 3 · 2020–2022
7:24How Gamers Killed Ultima Online's Virtual Ecology | War Stories | Ars Technica
Ars Technica
Picked by 3 · 2018–2026
13:14Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG
Modern Vintage Gamer
Picked by 3 · 2020–2022
29:54[Epilepsy Warning] Choco Mountain: The History of Mario Kart 64's Most Infamous Track
Summoning Salt
Picked by 3 · 2018
2:01:18Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
Valve
Picked by 3 · 2024–2025
9:50Alpha Centauri Quotes: Intro and Tech's 0-24
uvwar
Picked by 3 · 2016–2020
1:26:39QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote
QuakeCon Official
Picked by 3 · 2011–2018
59:03Classic Game Postmortem: Fallout
GDC Festival of Gaming
Picked by 3 · 2018–2025
22:13what did you do
Noodle
Picked by 3 · 2025–2026