PICO-8 is reigniting my gaming obsession

Back in 2024 some friends and I discovered Drift Mania and we quickly became obsessed, this was of course during our exam period lol. It was like a month old, and the current speedrun times at that time were noted in an Google Excel sheet that the developer had set up (if I remember correctly). We played a lot, hunting for the WR speedrun times for the A1 level, and even managed to become like top 3 or something (can’t quite remember, but we did good!). The speedrun times migrated over to speedrun.com/Driftmania, and we didn’t register us at the time there. But as of recently, I remembered the game and had to play again - currently residing in the 7th place, working my way up. The more I played, the more curious I was about the game. This ended up in me discovering PICO-8, a fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs. Let me just say, browsing the SPLORE-page for cartridges is so much fun. I want to play all the time now, almost every game I…