Dating for people who blew into cartridges

Modern games are great. But if your idea of a perfect evening is a Saturn, a CRT and a shmup you have one-credited, you are looking for someone very specific.

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How it works for retro gamers

Connect via RetroAchievements. Its public Web API exposes games played, achievements and hardcore progress. We store derived signals only. All opt-in, all revocable.

A game has a platform, a genre, a region release and a completion depth
Matching happens at every level: shared games, shared platforms, shared genres, shared ways of playing
Achievements and mastery provide engagement data; hardcore mode (no save states, no rewind) is a sentiment signal of its own
Platform loyalties (Mega Drive kid or SNES kid) are captured, then politely ignored if you want

Niche overlap > mainstream overlap

Both played Super Mario Bros. 3? Of course you did. On RetroAchievements it has over 53,000 players. Both played Saturn Bomberman, with about 2,200? That is a shared childhood nobody else had.

Mainstream

Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

53,578 players → NicheWeight 0.10

Niche

Saturn Bomberman (Saturn)

2,210 players → NicheWeight 0.91

Player counts are from RetroAchievements game pages (checked 1 November 2026). The site tracks over 37,000 games, so there is a lot of long tail to share. NicheWeights are derived from those counts and are illustrative.

What gets scored

Shared games weighted by player rarity. A shared PC Engine shmup outranks a shared Sonic 2

Platform profile - NES, SNES, Mega Drive, Saturn, PC Engine, Neo Geo, Game Boy, PS1 and the deep cuts

Completion style - beaten, mastered, hardcore. How deep you go says a lot

Genre niches - shmups, JRPGs, point-and-clicks, beat 'em ups, 16-bit platformers

How you play - original hardware, flash carts, FPGA, emulation. Via Interest Q&A, never judged

Co-op history - two-player favourites you could actually play together

Example match

"You share 9 games avg NicheWeight 0.76, including Saturn Bomberman and Radiant Silvergun. Platform overlap: Saturn (38%), PC Engine (21%). Both play hardcore. Both mastered at least one shmup this year. Co-op candidates: Guardian Heroes, Gunstar Heroes."

Not "you both like games." The actual cartridges. The actual credits. The actual player two.

Integrations

RetroAchievements

Live link · Games, achievements, hardcore progress

Backloggd

File import · Played list, ratings, backlog

Steam

Live link · Modern re-releases and collections

All opt-in. All revocable. We show signals, never raw data. Live links use an official API you authorise; file imports use the data export the service gives you; partner access needs the service's agreement; anything else you add by hand.

Keep reading: Affinity Atlas for Gamers · Multi-Platform Identity Stitching

Affinity Atlas is in development

No real matching is live yet. If you want a player two who knows where the warp whistles are - get in touch.

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