It’s long been known that the graphical explosions and safe zone graphical glitchy area in Yars Revenge was the game binary code. Retro Game Mechanics Explained wondered if it was possible to reverse-engineer what the code was from this display.

He does an AMAZING job analyzing and dissecting the graphical patterns to determine not only how it works, but what the underlying code might have been.

It’s a wonderful bit of reverse engineering and definitely worth a watch.