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Childhood games rebuilt: Jet Set Willy, Mario, Thrust

An HN comment about recreating classic games from the author's youth.

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  • HN commenter aenis Source ↗

Earliest dated source: 13 Jul 2026

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While waiting for Claude to finish real work, a Hacker News commenter rebuilds games from their childhood (Jet Set Willy, Mario and Thrust, with Mercenary next) and has the LLM build a deterministic "autopilot" that plays each one.

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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.

  • Hacker News: I rebuilt a couple of games I used to play as a kid (jet set willy, mario, thrust, now i am working Forum threadnews.ycombinator.com
    HN commenter: aenisPosted 13 Jul 2026

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