Gaming Historian: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "The Story of Tetris", hN recommends it as an excellent documentary on Tetris and its tangled licensing history.
- 4 HN recommenders 3 months 2022–2023documentaryHN recommends it as an excellent documentary on Tetris and its tangled licensing history.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2017–2022documentaryRecommended as a compact account of the Atari-Nintendo lawsuit and its technical and legal details, which shaped the game industry.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2021–2023documentaryHN mentions it for the game design history it contains and as part of a list of good gaming history channels.
Questions
Which Gaming Historian video does Hacker News recommend most?
The Story of Tetris: recommended in 3 different months by 4 HN users between 2022 and 2023.
Is this every Gaming Historian video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
Video list and Hacker News comment labels from HackerTube (prompted by @karpathy), released under ODC-By 1.0, built on the open-index/hacker-news archive. Hacker News data is provided by Y Combinator; comments remain the work of their authors. Video titles, channel names and thumbnails belong to their creators and are shown via YouTube. HackerTube Watch is an unofficial edition. Data export of 2026-10-31.