NESmaker is like Unity for making NES games

When I was a kid, the idea of making my own game for the Nintendo Entertainment System was fantastical. But it actually seems even more impossible now that I understand what it takes. Nintendo’s first home console uses a programming language called 6502 Assembly language, which I’m not going to learn. But developer The New 8-Bit Heroes has made it so I don’t have to learn 6502. Instead, I can just use the developer’s NESmaker toolkit to build games in a graphical interface.

The democratization of game development has gone retro. NESmaker is available for $36 on the company’s website.