How Software Learns to Play Classic NES Games

suckerpinch · Demo · YouTube title: Computer program that learns to play classic NES games

Why it's here

Loved on HN as a hilarious, brilliant example of hacker-academic work and cited whenever game-playing AI or fuzzing comes up.

What it covers

Tom7 explains and demos software that learns to play NES games by finding score patterns in memory and then searching for inputs that raise it. It is the video companion to his SIGBOVIK paper.