Miscellaneous notes on games (of the recreational/fun variety) that did not fit elsewhere.
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 Boiler plate by and there are probably other excellent things on ich.io
Retro games
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.
emulate classic games
- RetroPie is a miniature distribution that makes a raspberry pi into a polymorphic games console
arcade machines
Turns out they were all weird bespoke platforms and emulating them is hard. the most prominent emulator is MAME
- MAMEdev.org | Home of The MAME Project
- SDL Supported Platforms - MAMEDEV Wiki
- Many confusingly labelled ancient ROMs are available in various archives, e.g.. Check copyright laws in your jurisdiction before downloading.
C64
VICE - the Versatile Commodore Emulator Many games are on the internet archive](https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64_games).
Incredibly retro games
Games from previous centuries, previous millenia
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