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Why are people putting this on the front page of Hacker News? I haven't seen anything linked to the console today.

by louhike 12y ago

nailer 12y ago
I think a lot of people vaguely remember the Neo Geo from the early 90s - it was this mythical beast of a home console that actually looked like read arcade games rather than the obvious down-ports we had at home. The article adds a lot of background that we might not have remembered (since we were 9 the first time round).
- corysama 12y ago
  This is very slippery-slopey towards the "DAE" nostalgia-pandering that dominates /r/gaming. It's unfortunate that HN seems to be rapidly sliding away from being /r/techstartups and towards becoming /r/mildlyinterestingfortechies
  - nailer 12y ago
    That's been happening since the site went from having no name (but generally being called Startup News) to 'Hacker News' a few years ago.
    - nailer 12y ago
      Randomly, I found the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html
ekianjo 12y ago
You must be relatively new to HN I assume, because HN re-runs a lot of non-new content as well (quite often from Wikipedia). Depending on what people find interesting and that may not be "news" at the moment.
dang 12y ago
Historical posts are more than welcome on HN. They're often some of the most interesting material that appears here.
- mathgeek 12y ago
  I'm not sure that Wikipedia should really be considered a historical post.
  - dang 12y ago
    I mean, of course, posts about historical material, such as an early 90s game console. It's true that original sources, when they can be found, are preferable to Wikipedia articles. But that applies to all kinds of posts. The date (1990) shouldn't have been in the title for the Wikipedia page, though, since obviously it doesn't date from then. We missed that before. I took it out.
    - mathgeek 12y ago
      No worries. I think it belongs here, just that "historical post" seems to imply posts which have historical context (as opposed to modern pages that refer to something historical).

Why are people putting this on the front page of Hacker News? I haven't seen anything linked to the console today.

by louhike 12y ago

Why are people putting this on the front page of Hacker News? I haven't seen anything linked to the console today.

I think a lot of people vaguely remember the Neo Geo from the early 90s - it was this mythical beast of a home console that actually looked like read arcade games rather than the obvious down-ports we had at home. The article adds a lot of background that we might not have remembered (since we were 9 the first time round).

corysama 12y ago
This is very slippery-slopey towards the "DAE" nostalgia-pandering that dominates /r/gaming. It's unfortunate that HN seems to be rapidly sliding away from being /r/techstartups and towards becoming /r/mildlyinterestingfortechies
- nailer 12y ago
  That's been happening since the site went from having no name (but generally being called Startup News) to 'Hacker News' a few years ago.
  - nailer 12y ago
    Randomly, I found the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html https://news.ycombinator.com/hackernews.html

ekianjo 12y ago

You must be relatively new to HN I assume, because HN re-runs a lot of non-new content as well (quite often from Wikipedia). Depending on what people find interesting and that may not be "news" at the moment.

dang 12y ago

Historical posts are more than welcome on HN. They're often some of the most interesting material that appears here.

mathgeek 12y ago
I'm not sure that Wikipedia should really be considered a historical post.
- dang 12y ago
  I mean, of course, posts about historical material, such as an early 90s game console. It's true that original sources, when they can be found, are preferable to Wikipedia articles. But that applies to all kinds of posts. The date (1990) shouldn't have been in the title for the Wikipedia page, though, since obviously it doesn't date from then. We missed that before. I took it out.
  - mathgeek 12y ago
    No worries. I think it belongs here, just that "historical post" seems to imply posts which have historical context (as opposed to modern pages that refer to something historical).