Miscellaneous notes on games (of the recreational/fun variety) that did not fit elsewhere.
1 Tooling
Open surge is a 2D platformer with integrated scripting language and level designer. Cute. cf LÖVE, the Lua-scriptable game engine. Here is chr15m’s Roguelike Browser Boilerplate and there are probably other excellent things on itch.io
2 Retro games
2.1 Lazy in-browser
You can play a bunch of retro games in the browser; e.g. the Archive.org DOS Games collection includes classics (Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2). Similar, but more suspect provenance, Classic Reload.
2.2 Emulate classic games
- RetroPie is a miniature distribution that makes a Raspberry Pi into a polymorphic games console
2.3 Arcade machines
Turns out they were all weird bespoke platforms and emulating them is hard. The most prominent emulator is MAME
- MAMEdev.org
- SDL Supported Platforms
- Many confusingly labelled ancient ROMs are available in various archives, e.g.. Check copyright laws in your jurisdiction before downloading.
2.4 C64
VICE - the Versatile Commodore Emulator Many games are on the Internet Archive.
3 Incredibly retro games
Games from previous centuries, previous millennia