Step Five – The Goods
The Site: vNES
The Deets:
- Play old games directly on the site
- Don’t like playing from a Keyboard? Buy NES to USB adaptors from the site
- Largest collection of ROMs on the internet
Reado Rates It: 3 out of 5
The Site: FireNES plugin for FireFox
The Deets:
- Plugin for Firefox (Tools -> FireNES)
- When it runs it loads a side bar containing a huge list of games available.
- Easy to access, easy to conceal from co-workers, prof, whoever.
- No two player option
- Requires Java be installed on your system
Reado Rates It: 4 out of 5
The Site: JSNES – Javascript Emulator
The Deets:
- Similar to vNES but only playable on Google
- Fewer games
- Smaller screen
- JSNES is not the easiest to play games on if you aren’t familiar with programming languages.
- Written in Javascript using JQuery
Reado Rates It: 2 out of 5 – You don’t know programming, don’t bother.
Remember, if you have any other great sources of Emulator sites or if you got something to say, put it in the comments. If I’m missing anything, I’ll be sure to update the post.
2 Comments
Nice one brother, been using emulators for years. Its about time someone preached the gospel of the old school video games. The new ones arent for me, too many buttons, too complicated for my ADD brain.
I’m not much of a gamer. I enjoy playing online for money. More of a gamble for me. Interesting concepts. Explains the pac-man and old games I see on some systems. Gaming can get complicated, technically. Great read.