Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔓) Whether you’re a video game publisher looking for devs to work with; a gamer looking for 700 new NES games to play (and links to each); or a collector collecting the rarest games anywhere—“NES2” games—this historic archive at RETRO is for you. #nesdev retrostack.substack.com/p/the-top-500-…

1/ In between writing about insurrection, inflation, infection and invasion, I’ve been working to catalog the efforts of what I think is one of the most interesting—and fastest-growing—art communities in the world: regular folks who learned to code so they could make video games.

2/ Gaming is the biggest entertainment industry in the world; Nintendo is the biggest name in that industry; the Nintendo Entertainment System is literally the foundation upon which the video game industry was built; and now *anyone can easily learn to make games for it*. Crazy!

3/ With the development of non-coding tools like NESMaker, anyone can—admittedly, with a lot of work—make a video game. And the most vibrant community of such artists are those making games for the original NES. They’ve now made as many games as the original licensed NES library!

4/ *Many* of these games are as good as original NES games—but are still looking for an audience and/or for a publisher to give their work the attention it deserves. I mean it when I say that I hope publishers will follow this RETRO series and reach out to the devs listed in it.

5/ I also hope this listing (and more importantly, the games in it) will encourage more people to learn how to make their own video game. And even if that’s not your bag, if you ever loved the NES, you’re sure to find games in this archive—with links to them!—that you will adore.

TAGS/ In the #nesdev and NES homebrew community are so many folks worth keeping tabs on, and who I hope will follow this RETRO project as it continues to expand. I’ll tag a few here. @ecmyers @FistaPro @johnblueriggs @TurtleRescueNES @matthughson @CrazyGroupTrio @FrankenGraphics

TAGS2/ @Wallmasterr @nathanpoopshaw @PatTheNESpunk @RogerBidon @dyannleroy @alteredimension @pxlsicle @Checkoofilm @FerrisonNA @jimmyalto @KeriGergich @BeachBoogeyman @SamMaloneChamp @koenkivits @nathantolbert @GGGamesShow @HagensAlley @Gamester81 @cross_cutter @Arb_and_Delish

TAGS3/ @nailogical @Tekniskamuseet @Catchupnerds @SuperNatetend0 @TheMichaelGant @MichiganYeti @homecompmuseum @PixelAmbacht @wrytersview @_kevin81_ @FJ_CBR @OrebodyUniverse @dutchislgames @HBGameclub @Somethinnerdy @made_bear @6502Collective @Optovania @OrabGames @ORArtGames

TAGS4/ @simplybenlogica @cacciatc @johnvanderhoef @dale_coop @SkoveDog @NicolasBetoux @MercuryBD @atonofglaciers @ninjadynamics @FG_Software @olofnae @MCBRemakes @Broke_Studio @deadeye_bit @peekabrews

Hope you’ll let your friends in the #nesdev community know about this article!

NOTE/ Just want to add that this really is 700 21st c. *original NES homebrews*, meaning that—a handful a hybrid cases aside—this archive has no hacks, localizations, unreleased games from the 80/90s or duplicate entries. There’s no artificial inflation of the total library size.