RetroGameDev VR

Pull up a chair in your own 80s/90s bedroom. The CRT glows 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 your own games, 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.

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 sounds and music.

Play Your Creations

Play the games you make on any of the bedroom’s three displays — the desk monitor up close, the big-screen TV across the room, or the handheld you pick up and hold.

Mixed Reality

Flip into Mixed Reality anytime. The bedroom drops to passthrough, leaving the screen floating in your own space — resize it, move it, or play in your real room.

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 the bedroom screens in glorious retro style.

Emulator Cores

Free cores for C64, GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SNES, N64, SMS, GG, PS1 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.