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I am hooked!



The last game console I had was a Sega Genesis 10 years ago. It never occurred to me to to buy a hand held console, until now. It is so cute and I found an Atari Retro game pack on sale with PONG!

I'm glad to hear that you liked your new Nintendo DS!

Thinking of to buy one myself.

Talking about retrogames............

I still play lots of retrogames via emulators on my computer. The amazing thing is, in most cases it works better then the orginal console. I just love the "Save State" option found in most emulators that let's you save your game anytime, anywhere. I have about 150.000 - 200.000 retrogames at the moment. Everything from real oldies from the 70's to N64. If you like classics, don't miss M.A.M.E or M.E.S.S.

To play games made for Osbourne, Commodore PET, Colecovision, Vectrex, VIC-20, CBM 64, Atari 800, Atari ST, Amiga, Lynx, Apple II, Atari 2600, Game & Watch, Arcade Orginals, ZX Spectrum (timex sinclair), ZX 81, Oric, Odyssey II (philips G-7000), Fairchild Channel F, Colour Genie, Sinclair QL, Dragon 32-64, Mattel Intellivision & Aquarius, Microbee, Microprofessor, Lamda 1000, Texas Instruments TI-99, Amstrad CPC, Atari 5600 & 7800, MSX 1 & 2, and much much more, is possible thanks to emulators for your PC and MAC.

Thanks to emulators those games will continue to live long after the orginal consoles/computers died. It's importand to keep the gaming history, because computergames is also culture, like movies or books.

It's amazing how many good freewaregames you'll find on the net, check out Caiman US or Freeware files for lots of completly free games.

I also find all "remakes" very amusing, people who did their own version of old classics with modern hardware and programming.

Rom hacking is also very fun, games like Super Mario World hacked with added levels, new enemys, new bosses etc.

(i have about 200 different versions of Sonic II, for exemple)

Were would you suggest that I find an emulator? I run windows xp.

Begin with "Gens" Sega Genesis Emulator. It emulates Sega Genesis, 32x and Sega CD.

http://gens.consolemul.com/

For Supernintendo try Snes9x and Znes.

http://snes9x.ipherswipsite.com/

http://www.zsnes.com/

This page has lots of emulators.

http://www.emulator-zone.com/

I have a better idea!

Want me to put out some roms and emulators for you to download?

How about Sega Genesis? (as a start)

Then you don't have to do all the work by sorting them, it took me long time to categorize everything. Just let me know and i will give you a link. (i have my own storage space on the net)

I'm uploading right now and you will recive a link to it tomorrow. Just install the emulator by unpacking it.

Every Genesis game is inside a zipfile, but you don't have to unpack them because the emulator can handle zipfiles (saves space).

Have a look at your mail tomorrow.

That is really cool of you Christer. I am downloading as I type. I just bought a new Pac Pix game for my DS as it was on sale and it is really fun.

We seems to share more then one interest. Videogames, photography, reading, etc.

I checked Pac Pix, seems to be a a very good game, quite unique graphics.

I'm playing this right now, Hamster Ball. A great remake och Marble Madness.