Simon Willison's WeblogMay 24, 2026, 5:14 PM

Recreating a 1980s Retro Game with Claude: Simon Willison's "Mad House"

Original: Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games

Simon Willison used Claude to recreate "Mad House," a 1983 BASIC game from a free Usborne computer book PDF, into a modern JS web game.

Simon Willison leveraged Claude to convert a 1983 BASIC game called "Mad House" from a free Usborne PDF into a modern web app. By prompting Claude to generate a mobile-friendly, retro-styled vanilla JavaScript Artifact, he successfully revived the classic Commodore 64-era game with a green-on-black terminal aesthetic, showcasing LLMs' utility in software preservation and rapid prototyping.

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