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Retro gaming consoles are kind of different. Any software for them is necessarily written for that console in particular, and can take advantage of its hardware capabilities in unique ways, even if you're using modern tools to write that software.

Standard Linux software running on a PC, even an older and weirder PC, probably isn't going to do anything that interesting. At the end of the day, an X server running Firefox (or whatever) isn't going to be any different on an old PA-RISC workstation than it is on a modern desktop computer or a Raspberry Pi or whatever.