A game played on an older personal computer, console, and arcade video games in contemporary times. Something you or you or parents played when younger.

🕹 Retro video game emulation for macOS

• UpdatedOct 22, 2025
• Swift

Shell script to set up a Raspberry Pi/Odroid/PC with RetroArch emulator and various cores

• UpdatedFeb 17, 2026
• Shell

A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.

• UpdatedFeb 20, 2026
• Python

iOS & tvOS multi-emulator frontend, supporting various Atari, Bandai, NEC, Nintendo, Sega, SNK and Sony console systems… Get Started:https://wiki.provenance-emu.com |

• UpdatedFeb 8, 2026
• C

Compilation of BIOSes for various emulation platforms

• UpdatedAug 13, 2022

A curated list of Game Boy development resources such as tools, docs, emulators, related projects and open-source ROMs.

• UpdatedJan 13, 2026

Overlay for running GPU shaders on top of Windows desktop

• UpdatedFeb 20, 2026
• C++

Chocolate Doom is a Doom source port that is minimalist and historically accurate.

• UpdatedJan 22, 2026
• C

Steam Deck Guide. Learn all about the Tools, Accessories, Games, Emulators, and Gaming Tips that will make your Steam Deck an awesome Gaming Handheld or a Portable Computer Workstation.

• UpdatedJun 27, 2025
• Rust

Pixel Vision 8's core philosophy is to teach retro game development with streamlined workflows. PV8 is also a platform that standardizes 8-bit fantasy console limitations built on top of the open-source C# game engine based on MonoGame.

• UpdatedJan 4, 2023
• C#

A cross platform, customizable graphical frontend for launching emulators and managing your game collection.

• UpdatedJan 30, 2026
• C++

The Roguelike Toolkit (RLTK), implemented for Rust.

• UpdatedDec 5, 2025
• Rust

DOSBox Staging is a modern continuation of DOSBox with advanced features and current development practices.

• UpdatedFeb 20, 2026
• C++

🎹🎶 A baremetal kernel that turns your Raspberry Pi 3 or later into a Roland MT-32 emulator and SoundFont synthesizer based on Circle, Munt, and FluidSynth.

• UpdatedFeb 4, 2025
• C++

A curated list of available fantasy consoles/computers.

• UpdatedDec 4, 2025

Build retro games using WebAssembly for a fantasy console.

• UpdatedFeb 7, 2026
• TypeScript

turns out I like bitmap fonts

• UpdatedAug 6, 2024
• Pascal

The purpose of Emupedia is to serve as a nonprofit meta-resource, hub and community for those interested mainly in video game preservation which aims to digitally collect, archive and preserve games and software to make them available online accessible by a user-friendly UI that simulates several retro operating systems for educational purposes.

• UpdatedDec 3, 2025
• JavaScript

Use a Raspberry Pi, old computer or VM as network storage for different retro computers and consoles

• UpdatedFeb 5, 2026
• Shell

RetroDECK is a powerful all-in-one retro gaming platform designed for handheld gaming PCs like the Steam Deck, full Linux desktops, Linux HTPC setups, and Linux-based PC consoles such as the Steam Machine.

• UpdatedFeb 20, 2026
• Shell