documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
GET LAMP: The Text Adventure Documentary
Google TechTalks · 5 HN recommenders · 5 recommendation months
Recommended by 5 Hacker News commenters across 5 months (2014–2026).
SignalTube analysis
Among 21 other documentary videos tagged Game history & retro gaming, the mean is 2.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 5 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.7× that mean. Recommendations span 5 distinct months; the peer average is 2.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
63% of its 8 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2026; 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.
- Channel / speaker
- Google TechTalks
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2026
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GET LAMP: The Text Adventure DocumentaryCurrent video | 5 | 5 | 63% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Engoodening of No Man's Skydocumentary · Internet Historian | 9 | 9 | 91% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| How Prince of Persia Defeated Apple II's Memory Limitations | War Stories | Ars Technicadocumentary · Ars Technica | 5 | 4 | 71% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Doomed: The Embers of Amiga FPSdocumentary · Ahoy | 4 | 4 | 100% | 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 recommendation in “Adventure 751 (1980)”. Its short rationale: Great documentary by Jason Scott about Adventure.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Enjoyed Jason Scott’s BBS documentary”. Its short rationale: Documentary about text adventure games that the commenter enjoyed.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “textfiles.com”. Its short rationale: Listed among Jason Scott's works.