C seems like an awfully painful way to write the CRUD apps most of us spend our time on.
And any performance gains would be invisible in most situations where network I/O is the biggest bottleneck (almost) regardless of the language used.
Into the Vertical Blank
Yes! Link to the Past is a brilliant game - definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
I second the recommendation of Link’s Awakening and Link Between Worlds since you liked this one so much.
The best driving game on the Atari 2600 - Enduro
Berserk is a favorite of mine! I don’t have a VCS but I wouldn’t mind one…
My personal experience has been that it’s games from the post-DOS era, especially PC games from the very late 90s and early 00s, that can be really tricky.
I’ve had better luck running games from that era from my GOG library via Lutris on Linux than Windows 10/11.
The ones that run in DOS Box are comparatively easy!