Homebrew game
Video game concept
Created by hobbyist(s) for a platform for which home made games are difficult to produce, either because of official tools are not freely available or uses storage media not found on other platforms where development would otherwise happen.
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Generally these are free and only available as downloadable ROMs, though some might've managed to distribute themselves as something usable directly on the target platforms without extra twists.
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Games by year
The first Homebrew game video game was released on June 1979.
itch.io, AtariAge and Backstreet Software published most of these games.
Platforms
| Atari 2600 |  | 34 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amstrad CPC | | 32 | |
| Atari 7800 | | 28 | |
| Mega Drive | | 25 | |
| NES | | 21 | |
| GB | | 14 | |
| Fairchild Ch. F | | 10 | |
| Apple II E | | 8 | |
| Atari 5200 | | 8 | |
| Nintendo DS | | 8 | |
| GBA | | 7 | |
| GBC | | 5 | |
| Master System | | 4 | |
| SNES | | 4 | |
| G7400 | | 3 | |
| N64 | | 3 | |
| Lynx | | 2 | |
| Linux | | 2 | |
| Oric | | 2 | |
| Astrocade | | 2 | |
| ColecoVision | | 2 | |
| Interton VC 4000 | | 2 | |
| Microvision | | 2 | |
| C64 | | 1 | |
| MSX | | 1 | |
| Tandy Coco | | 1 | |
| PC Engine | | 1 | |
| CD-I | | 1 | |
| Vectrex | | 1 | |
| Virtual Boy | | 1 |