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Exactly! All I can think of is, 'Why the hell not?!' It adds to the challenge for those who want it. If people still want to use the simpler languages, then absolutely nothing will stop them. Assembly would just be for the people who want to take retro to a whole new level ^^

Yeah, that seems pretty cool ^^ If this somehow does become reality with the TIC-80, I'll be surprised if it isn't something similar to 6510 assembly. 

Okay, I'll take a look at those :D

I know right ^^ 

Ooh, that would be interesting.

I've used TIC for quite some time now, and have been thinking about how interesting it could be (at least, in my opinion) to implement some form of assembly as a compatible programming language. I don't have my hopes up for this to actually be added as I know it would be difficult to achieve that, but I wanted to share my thoughts nevertheless.

• It would be a great educational opportunity -
  • Assembly is a great way of understanding how a CPU works
  • The added challenge would be good for people who want to test themselves
  • It would teach how games were created back in the day

And, on the topic of early games:

• Assembly would enhance the retro experience -
  • The whole point of TIC-80 is to be retro, right?
  • It would be much closer to programming for an early machine
  • You could provide nostalgia for the early game developers
  • People who want to develop retro games using assembly won't need to use different assemblers or emulators or whatever else if TIC has them all built into one little package. Convenience, basically.

The only downside to this (that I can think of) is the time it would take to implement assembly, but I personally think it would be very much worth it. I'm interested to hear other people's opinion on this ^^