Polish Pixels
Games
retro game archive
SHOW HN2023
216points
29comments
#254of 3,109 in 2023
Top 9%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
8 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.45.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Valuable preservation of game history
From 3 comments
Great stuff. I always admire efforts like archive.org, textfiles.com and yours just fits well into that theme. The nature of today's Internet is that things disappear all too…
tlug on HNAwesome content. It's historical resource, because these are early days of polish game communities that along with demoscene gave grounds for polish game industry and projects…
tomaszs on HNVery nice. Extra points for supporting light mode. It may sound corny, but games from that era are a part of our cultural history, and they are part of the history of computing,…
tempodox on HN
Clean presentation, light mode support
From 2 comments
From a Czechoslovak video game archivist, well done! We have our own databases of video games and even a dedicated person reviewing every single public release on 8-bit micros,…
sanqui on HNVery nice. Extra points for supporting light mode. It may sound corny, but games from that era are a part of our cultural history, and they are part of the history of computing,…
tempodox on HN
Requests
Add missing titles such as Electro Man and Electro Body
From 1 comment
This is missing Electrobody / Electroman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a…
adamzochowski on HN
Add Agent Mlíčňák (Teenagent)
From 1 comment
With all the new interest in point-and-click games — thanks to remasters of Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, … — Agent Mlíčňák (Teenagent) deserves a revival!
yreg on HN
Alternatives named
Internet Archive
From 1 comment
Available to play in the Internet Archive! [1][2] [1]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Body_1992 [2]https://archive.org/details/msdos_Electro_Man_1992
jfrej on HN
GameBase64
From 1 comment
This is missing Electrobody / Electroman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GosPJVggVmI As per burmistrz for c64, I remember playing a…
adamzochowski on HN