Learn FPGA development with the OneChipBook-12

I always wanted to get into FPGA development, on the cutting edge of retrogaming authenticity, but simply trying to comprehend the OneChipBook-12's product page convinces me that I might be better off sticking with emulators and fantasy consoles. The device is a laptop form factor dev platform with the programmable Cyclone EP1C12Q240 core, 12,060 logic elements and 239,616 bits of RAM and designed for hardware programming learners, which I have just decided I am not.