Mad House — Usborne Creepy Computer Games
Simon Willison used Claude to recreate a 1983 BASIC game from a PDF into playable JavaScript
“Build a vanilla JS artifact that exactly recreates the game Mad House from this book, make sure it's mobile friendly and has a suitable retro aesthetic”
Simon Willison fed a 1983 Usborne 'Creepy Computer Games' PDF to Claude and prompted it to recreate the Mad House game in vanilla JS with a retro aesthetic. This is a fun personal project demonstrating Claude's ability to interpret scanned book PDFs and generate playable games, but carries no meaningful AI industry signal. It is primarily a nostalgia/hobbyist piece with minimal strategic relevance to the AI conference space.