A timeline game for game music. Hear a song, place it on your line, see if you nailed the year. First person to ten takes the whole sleeve.
Each cut needs a YouTube video ID to play. A starter batch is already keyed in. Everything else is a paste-job: grab a YouTube URL, drop it in, done. Additions save to your browser.
Paste a full YouTube URL (watch?v=... or youtu.be/...) or just the 11-character ID. Optional: add a start time in seconds after the ID, separated by a comma. Example: 0FCvzsVlXpQ, 8 starts Megalovania eight seconds in.
Open this page, then join your Discord voice channel and share the browser window. Make sure "Share audio" is enabled on the share, or your friends will see the vinyl spin and hear nothing. The mystery card hides the video itself; players listen, nothing more.
The active player hits Drop Needle. A random cut plays. They listen, argue with themselves, then click somewhere in their timeline: earlier to the left, later to the right. Lock it in. The card flips. If it slots correctly, it joins their lineup. If not, discard. Pass the deck. Ties (same year as a neighboring card) count either side.
Hitster plays its songs from the beginning of the recording. For game music, that breaks quickly: long ambient intros, announcer tags, silence, fade-ins. This game supports a start offset per cut. The included tracks use whatever timing makes the song recognizable. Add your own offsets in the crate manager.
YouTube's embed API has a rougher time inside arbitrary sandboxed iframes. If the player flakes, save this HTML file to a folder and drop it on Neocities, GitHub Pages, or any plain static host. Same-origin playback is much more reliable. Your added cuts survive reloads on the same domain.