Gaming / Retro Computing (2025-12)

2025: Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective (torrentfreak.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by gslin Dec 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

What video games would you say have the best stories? Feel free to suggest more than one.

~ 41 pts 68 comments by unknown Dec 31, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Show HN: Vector Defense – retro tower defense game demo (michaelteter.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by michaelteter Dec 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

_Vector Defense_ is a retro vector graphics style tower defense game (demo).<p>This was a holiday "weekend" project. I wanted to recreate some of the fun I had in the past with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDefense" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikip...

What have you been watching / reading this week? (Anime/Manga) (anilist.co)

~ 0 pts 0 comments by Tildes Dec 31, 2025 ~anime Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

2025 AI Retrospective, What Went Wrong (future.forem.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by OmShree0709 Dec 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API (carimbo.games)

HN 91 pts 91 comments by delduca Dec 31, 2025 AI / Machine Learning Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective (torrentfreak.com)

HN 14 pts 0 comments by throw0101c Dec 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Restoring My Childhood Family Computer Part 4: Emulation (gridbugs.org)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by ibobev Dec 31, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Steam: Best of 2025 (store.steampowered.com)

~ 43 pts 20 comments by unknown Dec 31, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

The complete Sega Mark III (retail) collection (nintendosegajapan.com)

~ 11 pts 1 comments by unknown Dec 30, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Review: Commodore 64 Ultimate (wired.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by amichail Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Can a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive Be Used as a General Purpose Computer? [video] (youtube.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by ok123456 Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Desktop Classic System — Spacial computing hearkening back to classic Mac OS (mycophobia.org)

L 13 pts 4 comments by alexandria Dec 30, 2025 linuxretrocomputing Systems / Low-Level / OS Gaming / Retro Computing thread

CCC 25:Build a CPU in Factory Game Engine (youtube.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by KellyCriterion Dec 30, 2025 Systems / Low-Level / OS Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Django on the Med: A Contributor Sprint Retrospective (paulox.net)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by pauloxnet Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Tamiko Thiel posting a new project emulating ELI5-like Feynman Lectures (youtube.com)

HN 3 pts 3 comments by killjoywashere Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Show HN: VideoReview – an on-prem, Frame.io-like video review tool for game dev (github.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by KirisameMarisa Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

I built VideoReview because tools like Frame.io work well for external reviews, but were hard to use in our actual game development workflow.<p>In our studio, reviews often involve a large number of short cutscene clips on internal or restricted networks. so we needed a lightweight, self-hosted solu...

Finding a broken trace on my old Mac with the help of its ROM diagnostics (downtowndougbrown.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by calvin Dec 30, 2025 hardwaremacretrocomputing Apple / macOS / iOS Gaming / Retro Computing Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Time Traveling Exploitation: Remote Code Execution in a 10,000 Day Old Game Protocol (youtube.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by kuijsten Dec 30, 2025 reversingvideo Systems / Low-Level / OS Programming (General)Gaming / Retro Computing thread

NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by todsacerdoti Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

The Rise and Fall of Unreal Tournament [video] (youtube.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by handfuloflight Dec 30, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

NES Game Genie Technical Notes (2001) (tuxnes.sourceforge.net)

L 10 pts 1 comments by djx Dec 30, 2025 gamesretrocomputing Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Anime: Your personal year in review for 2025 (tildes.net)

~ 0 pts 0 comments by culturedleftfoot Dec 30, 2025 ~anime Gaming / Retro Computing thread

GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder (gog.com)

~ 47 pts 2 comments by unknown Dec 29, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing Productivity / Career / Business thread

What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?

~ 19 pts 37 comments by unknown Dec 29, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Unity risks fresh backlash with new fee demands (mobilegamer.biz)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by sionisrecur Dec 29, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Histories of the Nintendo Entertainment System and a lost communist game console

~ 11 pts 1 comments by unknown Dec 29, 2025 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Pixel Art Tutorials (saint11.art)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by sssilver Dec 29, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

LoongArch 64-bit userspace emulation (fwsgonzo.medium.com)

HN 3 pts 2 comments by ingve Dec 28, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread

Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should (marekfiser.com)

HN 279 pts 181 comments by iliketrains Dec 28, 2025 Gaming / Retro Computing thread