Show HN: Video Games By Year – video game releases by year and console

Ever decide to build something and realize, "there's probably no one else in the world who needs this"? Well, here's one of those projects!

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.