Show HN: Video Games By Year – video game releases by year and console
A few days ago I was making a top list of video game releases from the past decade, when I found there was not a great resource for seeing a clean list of games, sortable by year and console. So I made one:
https://www.videogamesbyyear.com/
No tracking, ads, or even images - just a Github Pages-hosted archive, from 2019 back to 2007. Select your year(s), select your console(s), and viola, you have a list of games that match your filters.
I built a quick scraper to grab the data off Wikipedia and organize it, but pre-2007 the tables get very whacky so it'll require a new scraper to handle 1995-2006. Prior to the `1995 in video gaming` article, the data is no longer scrapable (no tables, just blurbs) and so will require manual data entry, but my goal is to add everything back through to the early-80s.
In the meantime, here is a thing.
It's written in Vuejs, with Vuex handling all of the lifting. It's built mobile-first so it'll run and look great on any device. It was a little weekend project but I love working with Vuex and large amounts of data - if you're interested in the code, here ya go: https://github.com/gedrick/video-games-by-year/
Thanks for checking it out, hopefully someone else in the universe can find some use for it.