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Recreated Childhood Video Game in 15 Minutes!
While an old Nintendo game would not run reliably on an emulator, a developer recreated the remembered game in about 15 minutes as a quick example of vibe coding.
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When an old Nintendo game would not run reliably through an emulator, a developer quickly recreated another remembered childhood game during a family call. They describe using vibe coding to make something playable in around 15 minutes.
The story is a small example of how fast AI-assisted coding can turn an informal idea into a working prototype. It is less about recreating a perfect original and more about recovering the shared experience of playing together when the planned setup failed.
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Do you remember this video game from when we were kids? Let's just make it. It's going to take us 15 minutes. I remember I was I was on a call with my older brother and he lives in India and he was trying to get us to play this uh this old Nintendo game and he was using this emulator and we were trying to play and it just there was some sort of disconnect with his internet and my internet and and for some reason we weren't able to get this emulator running.
And so while he and his wife and me and my wife we were all chatting getting ready to play this this video game uh I just really quickly vibe coded uh another game that we had played when we were kids and that's what we started playing for the rest of the night and it took 15 minutes just create recreate a video game from my memory and uh
That's That's unbelievable.