Pico-8 is the games console you wanted as a kid. It’s a retro-games console environment for Mac (and other computers) that lets you build your own tiny games. Read next: Complete guide to coding on ...

I grew up in an age of games with pixels so chunky they made Duplo look refined. The era was bookended by the Atari 2600 and the Game Boy, with the likes of the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, ...