Who else is into retro gaming?
I really started getting into retro gaming when I first saw emulators appearing
in the late 90s. I thought it was really cool that there were emulators that al
lowed playing NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and other console games on my PC. Some e
mulators also had some fairly interesting features, such as allowing multi-playe
r gaming with other people over the internet.
Although I have typically been more into PC gaming, I do enjoy console games. A
nd for a while now, it seems there are many ways to emulate old systems, beyond
emulation on a PC. A few years ago, I modded my Nintendo Wii and installed some
emulators on it (though life got into the way, I got busy, and I haven't played
the emulators on that as much as I thought I would). Before that, I bought a G
CW Zero (an open-source handheld gaming system that supports emulators, among ot
her things). Unfortunately, it seems the screen on my GCW Zero has failed and do
esn't work well now. :/
In recent years, there's also the Classic Mini systems that the popular game com
panies have released; there was the NES Classic Mini & SNES Classic Mini from Ni
ntendo, and then Sega, Sony, and TurboGrafX made their own versions for their re
spective systems. Those are generally moddable too, so you can add additional g
ames.
Although I've been emulating old consoles for a while, sometimes I've missed hav
ing a real console. A long time ago, I had an original NES, a Nintendo 64, and
a TurboGrafX-16. For a while, a SNES as well. I just bought a SNES on eBay..
I'm not sure what all I'll do with it, since I can play the games with emulators
, but it might be fun.
Nightfox
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