Alkhan has put together a version of English draughts, also known as American checkers, for PICO-8.
The game is simple to learn but built around surprisingly deep strategy.
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Alkhan has put together a PICO-8 recreation of Bouncing Ball, the 1953 game often named as one of the earliest known real-time graphical computer games.
The idea is simple enough: adjust the power of your throw so the ball lands in the hole, and each hole needs a different bounce pattern to score.
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Alkhan has recreated the 1954 Pool game, one of the earliest known video game adaptations of billiards, as a PICO-8 cartridge.
You can play against the CPU or another player, and it comes with a soothing soundtrack.
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Realistic Fishin’ by otrain13 is a PICO-8 game where you sit in a boat with a worm and a bunch of fish that don’t seem terribly interested in it.
You can play with a gamepad or the Z, X, and Arrow keys. The FAQ is clear that catching a fish is not possible, which fits the joke.
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Matcha Mayhem is a PICO-8 game by Damobmafia in which you play as matcha itself, moving and attacking with a whisk.
The aim is to get a high score by avoiding contact with enemies, building combos, and surviving as many waves as possible.
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This German-language tutorial walks through installing muOS on an Anbernic RG40XX H, from downloading the files to setting up BIOS, ROMs, emulators, the scraper and the main settings, all aimed at beginners.
The video covers downloading muOS, preparing the SD card, installing the system, the first start, setting up BIOS files, adding ROMs, configuring the scraper, hotkeys and installing themes.
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Dungeon Durban is a Game Boy Advance game by Durban Games.
A coin collecting quest across 20 handcrafted dungeons, where monsters haunt you badly.
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A ketchup hero platformer made in 1996 that was finished but never released gets its first public outing on MS-DOS.
VITO: The New Adventure comes from Yaron Yashinski, Yair Kapach and Roy Margalit, and it is a tightly crafted original with secrets, traps and a tomato to save.
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W.T.F. is a tower defence game for PICO-8 where you play a wizard defending your tower from the necromancer Arthrax and his minions over ten days.
Each day brings bigger waves of skeletons, imps, rams and catapults, and you fight them off with fireballs you can curve by holding down as you move, plus spells like Firewall and Lightning Bolt that drain your mana. After each battle you pick an artifact for your familiars to fetch.
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#xo89 (2026) by Nostabyte Interactive for Game Boy Advance.
Lone pilot. Alien orbit. One mining drone. Carve into procedurally generated terrain, haul resources, upgrade your rig. There’s a rocket launcher too, because of course.
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