RetroGameDev VR

Pull up a chair in your own 80s/90s bedroom. The CRT glows, the posters are up, and the tools are waiting. RetroGameDev VR is a standalone Meta Quest app — part time machine, part hands-on workshop: learn how retro hardware really works, create games of your own, play them across the room, and export them to run on real retro machines.

Learn

Built-in lessons open up the graphics, sound, and inner workings of real retro hardware, showing you how these classic machines tick from the inside.

Create and Remix

Start from a template game and make it your own. Use the built-in editors to redraw sprites, repaint palettes, design backgrounds, and compose your own sounds and music.

Play Your Creations

Play the games you make right there in the bedroom. Optional emulator cores can be downloaded in-app if you also want to load your own game files.

Export to Real Hardware

This is where it leaves the app behind. Turn your creation into a working cartridge that boots on genuine retro machines — real hardware, not emulation.

Also Included

Watch your own video files on any of the three bedroom screens in glorious retro style.

Emulator Cores

Free cores for C64, GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, SMS, GG can be downloaded in-app. No cores or games are bundled. You create your own or load your own game files, and you are responsible for having the right to use any files you load.