I love FORTH and I agree that it would most likely run at a decent speed.
But just for reference it's worth pointing out out there was an official high-level language released for it, back in the day:
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I was actually aware of that; the problem with BASIC, at least with my research with homebrew C64 is that BASIC is ridiculously slow. It’s fine as a basic command line but for games I would likely not get anywhere near the performance I need.
What I am working on is stretching the NES pretty hard. Honestly I probably should do it in assembly but I like the idea of using a high level language to do it.
FORTh is awesome, so I wish you luck.
As you say of the obvious high-level languages it should come top, so here's hoping it has enough performance to be usable and useful.
I am getting pretty promising results from what I have right now, though I gotta admit that "thinking in Forth" definitely has a learning curve.
I've been debating going to nesfab [1] just in the interest of time.