Funny, I thought I had made a post about this, but it doesn’t seem to have saved. Well, I’ll try it again.

Everyone knows Balatro now right? It’s won several awards, and was nominated for a handful of others. It was also developed entirely by one person, LocalThunk, who, gasp and shock, seems to be a decent person. And it was written in Lua for the LÖVE framework.

What’s more, there’s now several ports of Balatro for unexpected platforms. I presume they aren’t all entirely faithful to the original, but it’s fun to see how others iterate upon the theme.

For the Nintendo DS (Github, GBAtemp article):

For the Commodore 64 (itch.io):

For the Commodore Plus-4:

Oh wow, for the Commodore PET, and before you ask, this is the best that system can do, it had no color, only beeps for sound and its graphics were locked in ROM:

The Playstation Vita and Apple Watch also have ports, with varying degrees of fidelity to the original. Note that the PET and Apple Watch versions don’t appear to be public yet, and may never be. The Watch one particularly looks difficult to play.

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