emulators

emulation is against the law, blah blah blah, i don’t care. i’m posting this in a public place because i want everyone to discover what i’ve discovered: playing old games on your computer is really really fun. a friend of mine gave me an nes and a super nes emulator with literally hundreds of games a few years ago, but i hadn’t really played around with it until last year. i also downloaded an n64 emulator several months ago, which started me going on getting older games on my laptop. it’s called project64, and i play goldeneye, perfect dark, and the cruisin games on it. now, it’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn close, and it’s a great way to play all these games that i either couldn’t play or didn’t play enough when i was younger.

watching “street fighter: the later years” on youtube and college humor inspired me and my housemates to pick up the old games once more. luckily for me, i had street fighter ii on my laptop to be played through my emulator, and i spent the next two afternoons playing through the game with each character. and just the other day i decided to start playing through one of the greatest rpgs of the 16-bit era: chrono trigger. once i’m done with this blog (and do a little more work on a paper i have due) i’m going right back to playing. and for all the debate that emulators cause, i think they’re cool for playing old games, and that’s the only reason i use them.