Definitely @fubarpk and @SpecTre! I am a retro gamer!
Although I don't have a c64 I am going to get a c64 mini very soon. Have watched a few YT videos on it ever since I heard about it. I have an NES and Genesis that I play games on and play a lot of retro games on my laptop.
I do like some modern games but honestly I'm just not into all of this superficial flashy crap they put in modern AAA games. The first few times it was cool quite awesome even! But damn they have been doing it for decades now. And honestly, if I want to watch a movie I will put a movie in. If I want the most realistic graphics possible I will shut off the computer and game consoles and walk out my front door.
This is why I am a big supporter of tiny Indie game developers. I feel these developers put more focus on gameplay at least as far as a ratio goes instead of focusing obsessively on superficial movie-like foolishness and over the top lighting and cinematography and so forth. I mean it is cool in its own way but like I said this is just about all games now so give me something different. And that something different is tiny weird Indie games that often look like games from decades ago.
I used to play games all the time at
game-oldies.com which is quite awesome. Can check out hundreds of games (maybe thousands) across different old machines but the past years I play a lot of games at gamejolt and itch.io and I do play games from Steam as well.
I just play a lot of different tiny games at various places so any one game I don't put more than an hour or two on generally. My steam library is filled with retro style games so should be easy to see what I like. Lol
My Steam Library and my Steam Wishlist.
The vast majority of the 200+ games in my Steam library are retro style games.
I just played a little Rush to Adventure (made by one of our devs here) and ORCS earlier today. Of course AppGameKit is the most used thing in my library. Like I said I don't spend huge amounts of time on game development either I tend to work in tiny very focused sessions 20 minutes up to maybe 90 minutes or more some nights but I often take 2 to 3 nights off and do nothing. But anyway just saying I still find game dev to be the ultimate game for me.
TI/994a (BASIC) -> C64 (BASIC/PASCAL/ASM/Others) -> Amiga (AMOS/BLITZ/ASM/C/Gamesmith) -> DOS (C/C++/Allegro) -> Windows (C++/C#/Monkey X/GL Basic/Unity/Others)