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The advice I've seen regarding current videogames seems sound (particularly: Get a Steam account).
Here's some advice regarding C64:
>Floppy disk is incredibly slow
Floppy really is slow without a fastloader. I use EPYX fastload[0], as an emulated cartridge on kung-fu flash[1].
Also consider sd2iec[2] as an alternative to an actual floppy drive.
>it's super difficult to find new games (these floppy disks with games are crazy expensive on eBay)
Research TOSEC[3][4]. Some archives[5] are available at The Internet Archive.
And about retro-gaming in general:
>maybe using a multi-system platform like the Overcame console?
I suggest the miSTer[6], a multi-system FPGA solution, because it is open source and has the strongest ecosystem there is for this sort of thing.
0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epyx_Fast_Load
1. https://github.com/KimJorgensen/KungFuFlash
2. https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SD2IEC
3. https://www.tosecdev.org/
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSEC
5. https://archive.org/details/tosec
6. https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Wiki_MiSTer/wiki
>I have a Nintendo 3DS that is jailbroken which was easy to do but I don’t know if you can still do it now that they’ve killed the 3DS store.
Yes you can[0].
This is about the only way to keep using these devices to their full extent, now that Nintendo has abandoned them.
0. https://3ds.hacks.guide/