Slightly late, but assembly is still used fairly often in the modding scene for older video games, as well as for creating homebrew titles for said systems. The

Slightly late, but assembly is still used fairly often in the modding scene for older video games, as well as for creating homebrew titles for said systems. The resources used for your average Super Mario Bros 1/3/World hack are used written directly in assembly language, as are quite a few standalone games. It's because the systems are underpowered enough that using a higher level language wouldn't get very good results, and because access to the original source code is basically nonexistent. For those titles which have been entirely disassembled (like say, Super Mario 64), the average mod now seems to be made in a language like C instead.