Hmm… I wonder what would it take to create an FPGA hardware version of the PICO-8 fantasy console…

Baremetal projects are truly fascinating -- I cannot wait to read your documentation. There's also a hardware Z-Machine: https://hackaday.com/2014/11/29/the-zork-virtual-machine-imp...

And this dev is working on FPGA Another World: https://github.com/felipesanches/AnotherWorld_FPGA