I love these fantasy computers. This one looks very similar to Pico-8, which I've made a couple of games for. I wonder how TIC-80 compares to it. One obvious thing is that it's open source, which is very cool. From a quick search, Pico-8 seems to have a larger community though.

One of main differences with Pico-8 is that Tic-80 supports many more programming languages.

You can write games in Lua, Moonscript, Javascript, Ruby, Wren, Fennel, Squirrel, Janet and even Python.

Or use anything that compiles to WASM. I've recently created my own bindings and a template for building Tic-80 games in Nim[1]

[1] https://codeberg.org/janakali/tic80-wasm-nim

Perhaps my favorite fantasy console is one of the first, if not the first to exist: CHIP-8. It was originally an easy way to program video games for the Cosmac VIP hobbyist computer, but it found new life in recent years because writing a CHIP-8 interpreter is a good "babby's first emulator" exercise. It's not really capable of much by today's standards, but it goes to show that the fantasy console phenomenon has a long and deep history.