Razor1911
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters point to it as an impressive showpiece of the demoscene and a nostalgic career retrospective of a legendary group.
What it is
Razor 1911's eponymous demo celebrating 40 years of the group, which won first place at the Revision 2026 demo competition and the public's choice award. It is a retrospective of keygen and warez scene culture with chiptune music.
Recommended by 3 HN commenters across 3 different months, 2026 to 2026.
What Hacker News said
Recommends uzyn · 2026-04 · on “Razor1911. A demo 40 years in the making”
This is so sick! Revision faded out the credits part, which is still really cool on its own. The full version (10m 16s) can be viewed at [this video]
Recommends RIMR · 2026-06 · on “Keygen.music”
It's so cool to see that some of these groups are still making incredible pieces of digital art as recently as this year! This Razor1911 career retrospective demo from Revision was pretty impressive: [this video]
Recommends MatMercer · 2026-07 · on “User Interfaces of the Demo Scene”
What a great thing to add to this: [this video] I'm not from this era and this article explains a lot of things from the video!