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Active Retro Consoles? (lemmy.today)
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What retro consoles still have the most active game development? The most games still being released physically? The best and most popular time-tested consoles?

I'm excited to start learning programming and had a thought to make a game (having an objective makes it easier to learn). I wrote up an entire plan already for the mechanics and it seems incredibly viable for a fun and full experience. I would like to have it playable on real hardware and am just trying to figure out which system to make it for.

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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Commodore 64 and DOS are probably the easiest to actually release your game on physical media for. Especially with the new C64 Ultimate. The list would probably look vastly different if you reduced it to the ones you could play on the real hardware.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There were also a lot of collection packs in the middle but I was too lazy to count and exclude them :P
But even if they released just roms instead of physical media, wouldn't you still be able to play on the actual hardware using Everdrive or something?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I forgot Everdrive and stuff existed.