Homebrew Games Summer Showcase 2023

140 Homebrew Games!
17 Consoles!
30 Minutes of non-stop gameplay footage!
The Homebrew Games Summer Showcase is LIVE!
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Games in order of appearance:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
There are so many games, I can't actually fit them in the description box! So please visit this spreadsheet to find links to every single game shown in this video, sorted by the order the appear in the video.
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The Homebrew Games Summer Showcase is a celebration of all the games in development for old consoles. For the purpose of this showcase, we define a homebrew game as a videogame being developed for a retro home console that came out before the year 2000, or for a handheld console that came out before 2004. Teams of any any size or budget were welcome.
If you are new to the homebrew scene: "welcome"! You are in for a treat! Use the link above to follow some of the devs making stuff that interests you, and follow along with the development of the next wave of homebrew highlights.
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Special thanks to Larson Kilstrom from Atavist Games who created the Summer Showcase overlays you see in this video! Their amazing looking Game Boy Color game, "The Fallen Crown" is featured in the video and coming to KICKSTARTER soon. Please check out more about them at www.atavistgames.com!
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Music in order of appearance:
Hero 80s by AlexiAction
Syncwave 80s by AlexiAction
Neon Gaming by dopestuff
Best Time by FASSounds
Midnight by AlexiAction
Stranger Things by Music_Unlimited
Digital Love by AlexiAction
Stay Retro by AlexiAction
Lady of the 80s by Grand_Project
On Synthwave by RoyaltyFreeMusic
Night Sky by AlexiAction
In Synthwave by RoyaltyFreeMusic

[@MattHughson]

Thank you so much for checking out the amazing work being done by the homebrew community! Corrections: 6:00 - Cubeat was listed as "Virtual Boy | 2024" but should be "Game Boy (Color) | 2023" - nickfa.ro 16:53 - Aqua Kitty '93 was listed as "Genesis" but it is also coming to "Turbo Grafx-16" - www.tikipod.com If you spot any errors in the video or accompanying spread sheet of games, please leave a reply with the correction, and I will add a note about it here.

[@SuperFlashDriver]

Great showcase, but um, who are the artists for Neon Gaming, Best Time, and Stranger Things??? I tried looking up say "Title of the song" then "Song" next to the title in the description. And unfortunately I cannot find it. The one I especially am looking for is the one at 15:15. EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. Turns out the song that I mentioned the timepoint is NOT listed in the description. It's called "Digital Love" by Alexi Action. Your welcome.

[@KevinvanderBurg]

And thank YOU for aggregating and supporting everything going on in the homebrew community! ☕️

[@obvious_giraffe8386]

Is there a way to get news and updates about these project? Website, Discord, Reddit anything to find out more about upcoming games or kickstarters?

[@MattHughson]

@@obvious_giraffe8386 I find the best way is to just follow the devs on Twitter. There isn't really a great website that covers everything homebrew at the moment. You can find all the games in the show here though: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HfUK3t1MHYiVXiTYFIe2vAK-VvLf1ehrqU1CjqJmVNs/edit?usp=sharing

[@MattHughson]

@@SuperFlashDriver I can try to put together a list. I was hoping KZbin's autodetection would cover everything, but it seems to be missing some.

[@RYAG_pk]

Dottie Flowers SNES 0:09 Dragonyhm GBC 0:43 Super Sunny World 1:03 Formula V 1:27 Repugnant Bounty 1:54 Repugnant Bounty (GB Edition) 2:22 Astebros 2:38 Vyrzon 3:12 Skatecat 3:28 From Below Pocket 3:42 Tryptic 3:55 Cosmo Knight ZiON 4:08 Kiki World 4:19 SpringZid & the heroes of evania 4:23 Nightmare Betrayed 4:34 Nightmare The 9th King 4:54 Isle of Tune 5:10 Pelusa Saga:Kaji's trail 5:21 Fall from space 5:27 Get it together 5:37 Genesis 2 5:44 Elevated Speed 5:55 Cubeat 6:03 Jane Austen's 8-bit Adventure 6:10 Kudzu 6:21 Nutmeg's Nut Quest 6:29 Demon Girl's 6:36 Ember Hollow 6:44 Dango Dash 6:56 The Adventures of Panzer 2 7:06 Unnamed 7:16 Esprit 7:22 Color Match Combat 7:28 Life's Too Short GB 7:33 Bizarro Undergrund 7:37 Rubber duck bathtime fun 7:46 Logic Island 7:48 Senseless city:Space Jesus 7:53 Oratorio7:58 Microvaders 8:04 Crosspoint 8:07 Witches and Butchers 8:12 The Myth of Zayla 8:17 The Question Haroldo Pinheiro 8:22 Alter Ego 8:26 Berry Fun 8:33 Total extinction 8:37 Dungeon Nerds:Rescue 8:42 Children of Tydes 8:47 The Stories Sword 9:00 Virtual Warzone 9:11 Annihilator 9:20 Over Obj 9:32 Mega slow mole 9:46 Illuminated 10:00 Data Man 10:03 Inky and the Alien Aquarium 10:15 Extreme Volley ball Infernal 10:25 Super Tilt Bro 10:37 Hyperion 10:51 Yõsei Wars 11:02 Aaling The Ghost 11:15 Blitz Viking 11:34 Coloco DX 11:50 Wink & the broken robot 12:08 Xanthiom 2600 12:32 Zephyr's Pass 13:01 Banana Bash 13:26 TCL:The Cursed Legacy 13:55 Last Crown Warriors 14:25 Mud Fight 14:54 Mystic Searches 15:01 After school Adventures club 15:32 Sam's Journey 15:50 The Fallen Crown 16:10 Chew chew mimic 16:42 Aqua Kitty '93 16:55 Time trail 17:07 Gun slugs 17:18 Tactus 17:32 Inspector waffle early days 17:42 The Train part 2 17:57 Heroes of Loot 18:02 The Trail of Kharzoid 18:16 ZPF 18:25Steel legion 18:37 Retro Quiz tower 18:51 Micetopia Secret of Crystal 19:05 Zabu 19:16 Wyvern Tales 2 19:29 Fall DMG 19:44 One Last Bloody Gasp 19:53 Orange Island 20:04 Driving Strikers 20:17 DFuzed 20:31 A Cat &his boy 20:40 Rise of Leif GB 20:50 Rocket Panda 20:56 Meadow 21:06 Witch N'Wiz 21:16 Summer Island Battle Tactics 21:32 WICCA 21:37 Kingdom Crysis 21:45 The Viking & the Ninja 21:55 Nosey Joe vs The IT Bandit 22:01 Bone Marrow Rebirth 22:07 Flying Arrows 2 22:18 Alien Cat 2 22:27 Mr Lee's Alishan Tea Collector 22:36 Shera's Music Party 22:42 Gunhawk 22:52 Bio Evil 23:01 GunTner 23:21 Self Simulated 23:28 La Patifferie 23:33 Cube Droid 23:38 Lost treasure of Lima 23:46 Vetgans 23:52 Go For It! 23:56 Cauldron 24:03 The House in the Cemetery 24:08 Super Mouse Tower 24:14 Eternal Memory 24:19 Brookwood:Pocket Tactics 24:24 Light from with in 24:30 Diz-Insectoid 24:38 Blazing Blocks 24:43 ANNA 24:54 TV Chan's great escape 25:06 Black Jewel Reborn 25:11 Soko Banana 25:31 Rex Nobilis 25:37 Beastly Battalion 25;49 Snout 25:54 Malasombra 26:00 Good boy Galaxy 26:31 Piopow 27:00 Nova the squirrel 2 27:26 Candy Quest 27:57 Former Dawn 28:25

[@RYAG_pk]

Kudo's to all the devs involved lol I just wrote this all for fun but hope someone founds it helpful 💀 it's all from GBA and before generations can't believe so many working titles

[@Weeqat]

You are so great! Thank you!!

[@GANONdork123]

I was shocked to see a VirtualBoy game here, and completely floored to see multiple. I didn't know it had such a lively homebrew scene.

[@arnauddemarais9104]

Exactly the same

[@portnawak]

VB emulator on 3DS IS Amazing to taste this

[@MrSujano]

I'm pumped for this! Woo!

[@philnye9664]

Me too I watch your videos religiously

[@skootdiggity1301]

Just curious, did you type this sentence with one hand? I assume you needed to constantly point at it with your other hand so you knew where it was?

[@hlb9834]

@12:33-Neat! A Metroid homebrew game for the Atari 2600 :D! I love that the indie game developers are still making games for old-school consoles

[@KnightsofBytes]

Wow, what a ride! Kudos to all fellow game devs, and a big thanks to Matt for making us part of this! :-)

[@eastpixel]

It's such a pleasure to be part of this wonderful collection of indie games. 😍

[@iheartpizzallc1838]

WOW! We're absolutely honored to have our game featured all of these great retro projects! What an incredible showcase. The retro scene is alive and well! MASSIVE thanks to Matt for putting this together, and for going out of his way to spotlight so many amazing projects. And massive thanks and congrats to ALL of the amazing devs out there keeping our favorite consoles alive and well! Crazy fact: our Sega Genesis game Go For It! is the only fighting game featured in the video. We're doing our best to make a great game that can hold up to the 16-bit classics. It hasn't been easy, but we're giving it our all! Footage at 23:55 for anyone interested! :)

[@esotericsean]

Thanks for including me at 6:27! Great to see so many new retro games! :)

[@MattHughson]

Your game looks great! Congrats!

[@EricGranata]

Oh hi! I sub to your channel 😊

[@JohnRiggs]

So many great games coming soon! I also have a new Genesis homebrew that should be available in a couple of months but didn't get you footage in time. Next time for sure.

[@stellarkym]

Thanks for showcasing my work here. Hopefully many retro fans will enjoy the new games we catered for them.

[@Sinistar1983]

Thank you for showcasing my game. Its awesome to finally get it out there. For anyone who wants to know its called Eternal Memory at 24:20

[@zenitpro]

The homebrew scene does what companies don't: keep the love for discontinued platforms alive, and producing top quality content! Very nice collection!

[@guillaumed9685]

I hope there'll be lots of people! I arrived here via the timeextension article.

[@arnauddemarais9104]

I am making The cursed legacy. Great selection. I am amazed by the metroid 2600 port and the Minecraft like on 3DO

[@rubenretro961]

Thank you very much for including my games: Retro Quiz Tower and Shera's Music Party on yout showcase! ❤

[@MattHughson]

Thanks! Retro Quiz Tower looks especially interesting to me. Love the style.

[@kihankang3260]

OMG. That last NES rpg looks too good to be true. If that game was released when I was in middle school, it would have blown away the genesis!

[@sumit92artist]

Shout out to Mr. Sujano as I came here from his video. This was so worth it! These homebrews look simply amazing! I'm especially blown away by the graphical and technical work people have done with Genesis, SNES and NES systems. Such amazing color schemes and graphical styles, even for systems as simple as Game Boy Color. Kudos to all the devs featured here!! Can't wait to play these.

[@AalingtheGhost]

Thank you for putting the showcase together! Glad to be part of it :))

[@goldlocke777]

What a fantastic showcase! Now I'm can't wait to play all those games!! Thank you so much for your hard work, Matt. This really is a tremendous contribution to our small community!

[@MaxOakland]

Every time it switches to a new game I'm like "I want that one too!"

[@orebodyinc]

We are happy to have Oratorio for the NES as part of this groundbreaking retro homebrew showcase.

[@UON]

Former Dawn for the NES looks unbelievable, it's got the detail and colors of a Genesis game!

[@GeorgeWeeman]

I was floored to see 3DO make the list! Sega Genesis had a strong showing, and no surprise, NES having the biggest number of releases. Thank you developers for your hard work, and keeping gaming alive!

[@svenzok]

I will kick The Cursed Legacy ass when it’ll be out. Looks super cool ! 13:55

[@jessragan6714]

There were some really good looking games in this video, but that NES RPG at the end really blew my mind! That would have been a best-seller back in 1991!

[@Cuurian]

Beautiful!!! Great to see so many impressive games! And thank you for including my game, Witches and Butchers!

[@UnwillingRook5]

Thanks for including my game in your showcase! I had a blast making it!

[@bassicallyandre]

Mr. Sujano brought me here. So glad I did. Seeing new games being released on retro consoles is such a blessing.

[@peteschmitz]

So many great games - and the last game really doesn't look like a New game anymore with all the extra power. Sureal. Loved the background music as well! Thanks

[@CommodoreKulor]

25:35 hi mom!!!!

[@PSCDGames]

So many great new games. Thank you Matt)))

[@phillipjames7142]

Props to whoever did the side panels. They took the generic Synthwave iconography and actually made it luscious and appealing.

[@Optimus6128]

What an amazing collection of real retro homebrew projects. Never thought so many people worked on old platforms at the same time.

[@RetroCrisis]

This was fantastic! So much good stuff to look forward to!

[@PSCDGames]

Look forward to!!!

[@karimbenkhelifa8058]

I'm a great fan of the cursed knight and I can't wait for the cursed legacy. The game seems full of new ideas. Some other promising games are listed too 😮 it's fantastic for the player that I'm

[@CowboyBumbiss]

Grateful for the inclusion of Dragonyhm (0:40). 🔥🐲 The team at Spacebot Interactive will continue to do its utmost to bring honour to its place among these. Quite a healthy bar has been set by the look of things!

[@762Nikolai]

Demo was certainly a good teaser. Keep it up 👍

[@digitallumberjack7827]

Great job, so many games I discovered in this video and I want to play now!

[@MahmoudYahyaoui]

13:57 The Cursed Legacy

[@HelllGates]

The cursed legacy looks awesome!

[@littaum]

Fantastic video! You made all of these great games shine.

[@TikipodLtd]

Great collection of games! Just for reference, the footage of Aqua Kitty shown is the PCE version, not Megadrive :)

[@jessragan6714]

I was looking at that and thinking, "Wow, that is incredibly colorful for a Genesis game. Perhaps TOO colorful..." (musical sting)

[@violator1017]

Former Dawn 28:25 and Malasombra 26:00 ! JUST INSANE ! I'm blown away... I can't believe that's only code... some voodoo or stuffs like that... Honestly the people behind these two games are sorcerers. 😧😧😧

[@MattHughson]

Agreed! 2 of my faves for sure!

[@ramadjones]

I'm in awe of the amount of games getting released. Gameboy and NES gamers are going to be eating SO good. I'm really impressed by how well artists are using color on the 8-bit systems. There were some pretty amazing graphics shown here for Master System, NES, and Gameboy color. Even the Vetrex was shown some love. The Vetrex! Only thing I would have asked for, was the games being shown in order by system. Either way, fantastic compilation. Thanks!

[@Minwah1959]

Lots of amazing games shown, quite something seeing all this in 2023 and for so many systems. Many thanks for including my game - Vyrzon!

[@CoreyHardt]

Very cool idea to collect and showcase stuff like this!

[@GLADOS117]

I'm pretty excited for 0:40 dragonyhm!!

[@762Nikolai]

You and me both 🤩

[@georgeweeman9057]

I was excited to see 3do, and N64 make an appearance!

[@davenemeth6548]

so ... many ... games lol. Thanks for putting this together Matt! I can't imagine how long this took

[@mohamedsamehsellami9492]

The Cursed Legacy is the one 👍

[@Sephigruen]

There were a few titles I'm waiting for, and lots of new games I'll be waiting for now. Great video!

[@Paul-qg3iw]

Can I just say in era when life for so many is quite challenging the retro game Homebase scene brings such pleasure and joy. To see developers with the creative and technical skill push the envelope of these wonderful hardware just brings a smile to so many of us who love this. Thanks;-)

[@idiedlastmonth]

Thanks man, wonderful work and effort! Devs need more exposure!

[@OriginalFei]

Thank you Matt! So awesome!! 🤩

[@FrecklesOpenMic]

COVID was one hell of a boost to hobbies that require you to be inside by yourself for a long time

[@EricGranata]

Holy smokes, Former Dawn looks amazing on NES!

[@juicelizard]

Je ne pensais pas qu'il y avait autant d'actualité homebrew. Merci de faire connaitre un peu plus mon jeu "Demon Girls" sur Mega Drive.

[@arnauddemarais9104]

Exactement pareil. Jetais loin dimaginer autant de projets !!!

[@oussamahachani1163]

This video peaked with The Cursed Legacy at 13:54 Great games all around though .. Kudos to the devs 👏🏻

[@EricGranata]

Would be so rad if Nintendo released homebrew titles on their Switch emulators. So many of these GBC and NES titles look so great!

[@ELV13S]

[insert leo pointing meme] 4:35 4:53 ep! eh! ep! those are my babies! Thank you for this, great work on the whole showcase!

[@rasheeddaley6773]

We'll be there

[@Pridetoons]

Great List there's even a few games here I haven't seen or heard of. Great job Matt.😁👍

[@MattHughson]

Yah same! I got a ton of new games to follow the process of making the video.

[@billyretrogamer]

Amazing vid! Lots of games to be happy for!

[@72A1D372]

Best homebrew video period. Please do more!

[@MattHughson]

Summer 2024 💡

[@davidlvna]

The future looks pretty cool! Thanks for this video.

[@someoneelse1534]

Very Excited to see what Isle of Tune turns into.

[@drakelacy2358]

I’m floored that there are Virtual Boy homebrew games. If there are people out there who would actually play this on original hardware, then I have to question everything about life 😂😂😂

[@mateusbertolaccini2224]

I am very impresseda. Congrarulations to everyone that work in these games.

[@762Nikolai]

0:42 really liked the demo, excited to play the full game now!

[@RETROPOCHE]

WoooOOOooOOooOoW! I love the homebrew community A LOT. This second wave of retro games are a blessing for retro gamers. It's like there's too much great new homebrews coming out on the NES, SNES and GENESIS to manage 😅

[@Pridetoons]

My only complain of this list is there's no Colecovision and ZX Spectrum. 😥

[@bluorb]

Fantastic video! Thanks for bringing awareness to these awesome looking games... not I just have to fork out some $$ to give them a try!

[@zockeromi1970]

Demon Girls !! 😮 I have strong gamebuino meta vibes now - and sooo many fantastic games, absolutely awesome

[@erockbrox8484]

Also while this may have taken more work, you could have put all of the same platforms into their own sections. Like Gameboy games are all together, Genesis games are all together, NES games are grouped all together, this way I can keep track of which console the games are for. When its mixed up, its hard to remember which system the game was being developed for.

[@MattHughson]

It wouldn't really be lore work, but this was intentional. I went back and forth on which is better, but ultimately I went with the because otherwise it becomes basically: NES, GAMEBOY, OTHER

[@erockbrox8484]

I know this sounds a little silly, but games are so hard to make and every time I see a reel of games, its like on one hand I'm super hyped but on the other hand, half of the games may not even make it to the finish line and the other half, may not even play well or be fun, but I am sure there will be a few gems in here. It also gets me that there are all of these modern games, and that's great, but there are so many more games being made than what the see on the shelf at Wallmart or Target. And many times, its THESE games which are the most interesting to play.

[@leabriana1223]

I'm super excited for Goodboy Galaxy and The Fallen Crown! Definitely have Esprit and Super Sunny World on my list of ones to check out

[@noeldoesthings]

26:29 Goodboy Galaxy 💜💜

[@WaruiCocotte]

The Cursed Legacy looks so rad ❤ Can't wait to play !

[@pacerush]

Very nice presentation!

[@jankleks4257]

Really cool video! I hope that the next time you will feature games for microcomputers (such as MSX, C64 or ZX Spectrum) and Amiga as well -- people make amazing stuff for them and there is even potential for porting to consoles...

[@MattHughson]

I think I will stick with consoles, as it's what I know about, but I would love to see a video like that

[@amokgaming236]

The cursed legacy 👌👌

[@nekomantle]

すばらしい。製作者の愛を感じます。

[@grantexploit5903]

Amazing showcase of amazing creators! Here are (some of) my thoughts about these games: 5:15 While its graphics are somewhat basic, that I can't immediately tell what this game is about and how it's supposed to be played makes it fascinating and oddly appealing. 7:40 I half-jokingly proposed a Minecraft-like game for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer before as the game relies exclusively on quadrilaterals for its 3D graphics, which is the basic primitive for the system, but never expected anyone to actually do it! It's especially impressive given the system's memory size. 8:05 Cool to see a real NES Paint program. (The closest thing I can think of is *shudders* Color a Dinosaur...) 8:35 Very colorful for the Atari VCS/2600! 9:35 _Holy shit_ that's a lot of sprites for the NES, and big ones, too! 14:55 Well, it does look muddy... using the system's weaknesses as strengths! 16:10 How the hell is that skull walking!? Or doing... well, anything?? 19:30 An Atari Jaguar game with good art direction? That's fairly rare. 20:45 I rather like the 1-bit art direction of this game-will really make it legible on the real hardware. 21:00 BEEG SPRITE!!! (Yes, I am aware it is probably actually part of the background, as well as some of those in Over Obj, but still.) 21:35 Wow, I didn't think there was enough RAM on the NES to make a battle simulator like that reasonably possible. 21:55 That developer name... LOL 22:40 Somewhat like Isle of Tune, its apparently unusual gameplay and premise makes this game very intriguing. 25:35 Amazing mixed-res graphics! Really good use of the SNES' high-resolution interlaced mode. 27:30 A TRUE FURRY GAME, YES! Finally, it's great that a lot of these actually make the NES look good, rather than like a mid-autumn forest in the evening, an algal bloom in a toxic waste dump, or something similarly monotonous and garish like some contemporaneous games.

[@TarikA]

This video is like heaven.

[@neoxbomb]

I heard about this via mr. sujano. I'm super excited. I love new games for old systems

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

actual games To me way more interesting than all current gen stuff

[@MyKratos93]

The Cursed Legacy 13:54 ❤❤❤

[@Pridetoons]

Wait so Dottie Flowers is now fully playable!? I was waiting for this game for so long!!!

[@MattHughson]

It's listed as "Late 2023", so sounds like its very close!

[@Pridetoons]

​@@MattHughsonKu 😎

[@MrSamPhoenix]

Not too many SNES games on here, but @25:39 this SNES game looks spectacular.

[@volfir]

Amazing homebrew games! 👍🤩

[@realOmegasMovie]

Holy crap. Amazing games. I especially like the Genesis games. Really Top quality!!.❤

[@kassfoss3210]

I really hope to see another showcase next year.

[@MattHughson]

I hope to do one!

[@TheEternalGoth]

I wish all the physical retro games were just put out by one storefront in one place! I want to buy all the indie retro homebrew!

[@MattHughson]

I know what you mean. Although I like having different companies to choose from, but a centralized location for all the release information is needed! Check out this site if you haven't before: homebrews.retro-gc.fr/

[@TheEternalGoth]

@@MattHughson I hadn't seen that site before! I grab a lot of the retro titles that show up on KS, and I pick up everything that gets sold by Piko, MegaCat, Broke Studios, AtariAge, PixelHeart, and all the retro stuff that Limited Run and IAm8Bit put out. So I guess this is just one more site I need to get on the mailing list for so I don't miss out! Sad that Twitter became such a cesspool because I used to follow a bunch of devs there (including you) and that's how I heard about a lot of games like Super Tilt Bros and Nobelia.

[@RetroSegaDev]

Excellent list! Great job!

[@MattHughson]

Just realized I forgot to reach out to you for some footage. Next time!

[@RetroSegaDev]

@@MattHughsonThat's okay! Hopefully on the next one I'll be able to give a decent set of new footage 😁

[@PixelReality1]

Да, ретро никогда не умрёт и будет в будущем только больше поражать Groovy

[@Neotiran]

В видео есть одна ошибочка)

[@brazilmugenteam]

Wow its amzing to see some Virtual Boy games there!

[@laroldsjubilantjunkyard]

You put a lot of work into this. There's so many titles. How long did this video take to make?

[@MattHughson]

I think from idea to launch it was a little under a month. Actual hours, I'm not sure.

[@graymars1097]

I wish GBA got more love from devs it has so much potential with today's tech 😊❤

[@MattHughson]

For me, as a dev, I think the problem is it is too similar to modern dev. Makes it less appealingly to work on.

[@graymars1097]

@@MattHughson holy crap! You're right! I never thought of that. Even NDS looks dated but not GBA 😮 woah 🤯 Edit I'm not kidding I've even seen a port of Celeste on GBA. Looks exactly the same though it's not finished.

[@MattHughson]

@graymars1097 we can still want more GBA games though haha 😄

[@graymars1097]

@@MattHughson oh absolutely specially handheld players like meI know we're the minority but we're there 😅😊

[@obthree2830]

Some bangers coming for the GB, GBC, and GBA. The NES and Genesis have some to but not nearly as many. Also I can’t believe that some people are making SNES games! They’re usually few and far between as I’ve heard it’s pretty difficult to code a game for it.