What programming languages were commonly used for games made in the 80's, 90's, and 2000's?

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  • sm64

    A Super Mario 64 decompilation, brought to you by a bunch of clever folks.

  • Mmm no N64 was mostly C. Super mario 64 was one of the first games ever made for the console and it only contains 4 asm files . https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

  • gbdk-2020

    An updated version of GBDK, C compiler, assembler, linker and set of libraries for the Nintendo Gameboy, Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • PrinceJS

    Prince of Persia reimplementation written in HTML5 / JavaScript

  • And now you can play it in your browser: https://princejs.com/

  • DOOM

    DOOM Open Source Release

  • Doom (1993): https://github.com/id-Software/DOOM

  • 7kaa

    Discontinued Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries - Go to the main source repository at https://sourceforge.net/projects/skfans/ for source code and builds

  • 7 Kingdoms: https://github.com/the3dfxdude/7kaa

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