Wow… I’ve just spent the past hour or so playing old school NES games via an emulator on my PC here at work. It’s a fair bit of fun except trying to play on the keyboard and in a tiny assed 320×240 window. Regardless, it’s fun to bring back old memories of games I used to play when I was like 10 yrs old. Contra was one of my favorites back in the day and apparently that came out in 1988… I was 9-10 yrs old at the time. I also played some Baseball Stars 2, which is such a huge contrast to the baseball games available today. 8-bit graphics, atrocious MIDI-based music, fake teams, fake players, 25 game schedule maximum and only like 12 teams. Yeah, what a joke. Fun to play for about 10 minutes then the music makes you want to rupture your eardrums with a rusty spoon. I also played a hacked Mario 3 called “Mario Adventure” that was pretty cool but just plain hard as shit on the keyboard. I’ll have to try this stuff out at home using a real controller and see how it goes. I downloaded Karnov, which I vaguely remember playing and I’m going to download ExciteBike because it had to be one of the coolest fucking games ever.
In case you’re wondering, here’s where to get the goods:
FCE Ultra can be had here: http://www.zophar.net/nes.html
Here’s a nice site with quite a few roms, though they haven’t been updated in a couple of years. They’re missing a few old games that I used to play but it’s a pretty nice collection overall. The Old Computer