Comment on Active Retro Consoles

PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I sorted your list by number of releases:

  • NES: 72 new games
  • Commodore 64: 55 new games
  • Genesis: 49 new games
  • Gameboy: 42 new games
  • DOS: 33 new games
  • Dreamcast: 23 new games
  • SNES: 12 new games
  • Atari 2600: 10 new games
  • Gameboy Advanced: 9 new games
  • Atari ST: 7 new games
  • Master System: 6 new games

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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?

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I forgot Everdrive and stuff existed.

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• Redkey@programming.dev ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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