Plenty of older games only seem to work with certain versions of Proton/Wine, DXVK etc. There are projects like Bottles which let you manage multiple Proton distributions https://usebottles.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

If it need installation (or has some kind of wizard), probably look into UseBottles and once installed, link the .exe to Steam. Source: 6 months ago

Bottles is very convenient to manage wine https://usebottles.com/. Source: 6 months ago

For "normal" games you could look yourself using ProtonDB regarding every game released on Steam and AreWeAntiCheatYet for most multiplayer games. If a game isn't available on Steam you have three possibilities. First if it's available on GOG, Epic Games or Amazon Gaming, you could use the Heroic Games Launcher. Second you could try to run the launchers through Steam itself using once again Proton. Third you... Source: 6 months ago

Bottles is great for old classic non-steam games. I haven't tried 🏴‍☠️ with it but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Source: 6 months ago

I agree! I picked up [RetroPie](https://retropie.org.uk/) again during the pandemic. I'm sure many did the same haha. That's when I learned [N64 emulation is difficult](https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Optimization-for-Nintendo-64/). Well done. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

I would have thought a well set-up Raspberry pie running RetroPie in a nice case (e.g. https://thepihut.com/products/superpi-4-case-for-raspberry-pi-4) and a couple of decent controllers would be the best thing. Source: 6 months ago

This website has step by step instructions on how to set up a RetroPie. It is really easy. Source: 11 months ago

The most I am familiar with emulators of that era is retro pi https://retropie.org.uk/. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://retropie.org.uk/ is the official site. Source: about 1 year ago