I think this time around I'll give Liko-12 a spin and see how things turn out. I've been playing around with PICO-8 and the features of LIKO-12 look like fun. And since I like to use the built-in IDE for such fantasy consoles, it will be nice to have more text on screen than in the PICO-8; because that becomes unwieldy pretty quick.

See diagram for my expectations: