[moccajoghurt]

>So you took a game that used to take a few dozen KB of memory and an 8-bit CPU running at less than 2MHz, and turned it into one requiring many orders of magnitude more memory and CPU speed?

That's what I thought too.

Not sure why it's getting as much attention. Maybe because it's the combination of Python and Super Mario. A very popular language combined with a very popular game and a breeze of nostalgia.

However it's a fun little project but being on the HN frontpage is a little too much attention for something like that.

[userbinator]

Going the opposite direction would be much more deserving IMHO; e.g. trying to fit a Flappy Birds clone in a few hundred bytes or something like that.

[_random_]

That would require skills. Also it's not "fun". It's not "fun" to be caring about optimizations or type-safety or general correctness and elegance.

[TeMPOraL]

> Also it's not "fun".

But it is fun. It's called "working for hack value"!

[greggman]

Not sure about python but there's plenty of those in JavaScript. Here's one

http://js1k.com/2014-dragons/demo/1659

I'm defining a few as 10 :P