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Active Retro Consoles? (lemmy.today)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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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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[โ€“] Redkey@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone who's currently interested in Atari 2600 development, I can tell you that MobyGames is way off in their count, even if you limit the count to physically-released games. There were well more than 10 new physical releases in 2025 alone.

It helps that developers do licensing deals with a few companies that produce physical cartridges with boxes and manuals on demand, but there are also still a surprising number of people making physical copies of games for sale in advance.

[โ€“] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

That's good to know. However even just the Moby games count I'm pretty surprised that these systems are so active