The REAL Story On Why Space Cadet Pinball Was Removed (ft. Windows on Itanium)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as the detailed, entertaining history of why 3D Pinball vanished from Windows.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NCommander

Topic

windows software history

Format

documentary

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

4

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• If you have the time, I highly recommend checking out the NCommander's video talking about Space Cadet Pinball. [VIDEO] He references the same blog, and goes into some pretty incredible detail about the history of what happened to pinball coming pre-installed on Windows.

• I learned a lot about 3D Pinball recently on this video [0]. It's specifically about the 64bit versions of 3D Pinball (or the lack thereof) and the reasons why. Part of that is debugging which relates to this. [0] [VIDEO]

• Yes... [VIDEO] Warning contains a youtuber bashing their head firmly against the pain of Itanium to test this.