Tangentially there was a niche but slightly notorious port https://www.spheresofchaos.com/ that is appropriately named.
The Secret Life of Vector Generators: https://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm
The Secret Life of XY Monitors: https://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm
"Part way through the run of Asteroids, we used up the world's supply of 7497s [binary rate multiplier chips] and Texas Instruments (the only manufacturer of 7497s) did not have them on their schedule to make more for several months"
It seems crazy to me that modern hardware emulating 50 year old hardware can't match the performance characteristics. What could the problem be?
If you grew up playing Punch-Out on an old NES with the RF module to TV, you'll know how brutal even 20-30 ms of added latency can be if you play on the NES Classic Edition.
If it were not for the games industry it would be much worse, they are the only force incentivizing keeping latency within somewhat acceptable bounds. Things like FreeSync can help a lot.