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Old Nintendo Games on Your PC

Okay, this is, like, totally dorky. But I'm gonna post it anyway.

I've successfully managed to download and run on my PC an emulator program for the old Nintendo Entertainment System. For several hours earlier today, I played Dig Dug, Ikari Warrior, and other games: what an 80s fest! Believe it or not, some of these old school games are still quite playable by today's standards, and fun, too.

So...wanna play? Go to Snake People: NES Roms. Dowload one of the emulator programs (I'm using the fceuwin emulator). Then download some roms (a.k.a. game programs) from the left side of the page. Once you've opened the emulator program, you'll need to configure the keyboard to be your controller (go to the Config menu, click on "input," click on "configure" for port 1, click on "keyboard," and the rest should explain itself). To play one of the roms you've downloaded, just go to the file menu, and then click "open."

Pretty easy, huh? If it was any harder, I'm sure I couldn't have figured it out.

One last thing. There's rules and stuff somewhere on the Snake People site for copyright and what not such that nobody gets sued by the massive Nintendo corporation: be sure to read them, yadda-yadda, and what not.

So put on some Love and Rockets, or maybe that Grateful Dead album with "Touch of Grey" on it, fire up the NES emulator, and have an 80s good time!

Sorry, no ice hockey.

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