Retro Gaming Nostalgia

Users reminisce about childhood and early gaming experiences with classic PC and console games from the 80s-90s, often played on old hardware in computer labs, LAN parties, or friends' houses.

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Activity Over Time

2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
45
2012
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2013
144
2014
153
2015
116
2016
179
2017
183
2018
287
2019
276
2020
395
2021
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2022
570
2023
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2024
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2025
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2026
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micheljansen Jun 18, 2022 View on HN

This takes me back! In my final year of primary school I spent countless hours at a friend’s house playing this together (on his state of the art 100MHz 486 with a CD-ROM drive). We barely understood English and most of the puns and jokes went way over our head. I’ll never forget the vibe of that game and I have never played anything that comes close since. I wish I could play it again for the first time.

berntb Jul 11, 2011 View on HN

I recently bought a game which I (and friends) implemented versions of in high school... in the early 80s. :-)

golergka Nov 21, 2022 View on HN

It was my first computer game back in the early 90s! I wish I knew there were competitions around it.

the_arun Jun 27, 2019 View on HN

It used to come in floppy disk & we used to stay long in computer lab in the evenings to play this game. Those were good old days!

shreyshnaccount Jul 12, 2022 View on HN

I saw this site YEARSSS ago, brings back memories of bunking class to play games xDreally cool!

xahrepap Jul 8, 2025 View on HN

Oh wow! Didn’t expect to see this piece of my childhood on the front page!I used to spend hours on telnet playing this game with my friend. What a fun blast to the past!

robertlagrant Jul 23, 2024 View on HN

Millennial here - I played this as a teenager on our ancient-for-the-time family PC.

adefa May 7, 2014 View on HN

Awesome! I played while it was very popular on AOL and for a few years after they started charging for it.

ziftface May 4, 2022 View on HN

Some of my friends used it to play older lan games

chungus Jul 30, 2020 View on HN

It's so nice for me to read this and be able to relate. I probably wouldn't be working as a software developer today if I hadn't spent those countless hours as a kid hacking the game, setting up (d2jsp) bots, fiddling to run multiple instances on the same computer, scripting together bot detection evasion patterns etc etc.Recently installed it again during lockdown after not playing for a good 10 years. Still has some 20k+ people online at times. Really solid game.