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Super Mario Bros 3 PC Prototype from id Software
usgamernet · 0 HN recommenders · 0 recommendation months
Recommended by 0 Hacker News commenters across 0 months (2019–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 22 other demo videos tagged Game history & retro gaming, the mean is 2.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 0 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 0 distinct months; the peer average is 2.1 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
0% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
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- usgamernet
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Game history & retro gaming. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario Bros 3 PC Prototype from id SoftwareCurrent video | 0 | 0 | 0% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| Computer program that learns to play classic NES gamesdemo · suckerpinch | 9 | 10 | 53% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| SNES Code Injection -- Flappy Bird in SMWdemo · SethBling | 9 | 9 | 45% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| [TAS] Pokémon Yellow - Arbitrary Code Executiondemo · MrWint | 4 | 4 | 67% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Commander Keen's Adaptive Tile Scrolling”. Its short rationale: Footage of id's SMB3 port that led to Keen.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Developers don’t want to show gameplay at E3 anymore”. Its short rationale: id's SMB3 PC demo pitched to Nintendo.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Super Mario Bros. has been released for the Commodore 64”. Its short rationale: id's SMB3 PC port prototype that Nintendo declined.