The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a fascinating look at fitting a modern game into NES constraints.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

VblankEntertainment

Topic

nes homebrew development

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2022

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 like this, you should also check out the work around Retro City Rampage. RCR is a GTA1 clone for multiple platforms from a few years back, but the developer also made a real NES ROM of it. Here's a great talk about that …

• It's hard not to look back at the past with rose-colored glasses, but in the case of the NES, there were so many low-quality games out there that it's easy to remember how bad some of them were even back then. I know I wasn't …

• Here's a fun video on how a modern 8-bit style game was ported to actually run on an NES. [VIDEO] You would probably enjoy the book Racing the Beam [LINK] For a collection of (mostly consumer-oriented) behind-the-scenes material, check out [LINK] Or, if you want …