Old Excel games did not run anymore. The AI brought them back online.

He found the Excel games he used to play as a student, where you guess TV shows from their theme music. They no longer run on modern Excel and the site that hosted them died years ago, so he ran them through AI and put them on the web.

How it works

Finds the old Excel games
Runs them through AI
The games go live again on a website

Why it’s worth knowing

The games were dead twice over, broken files on a dead site. Now anyone can play them again in a browser.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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