Classic Video Game Nostalgia
Like many of my friends today, I grew up along with the video game generation. I had a Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Gameboy, and even an old Atari 400. I had spent hours just playing games all day.
Tonight I found a great link through Totally Snookered that has just about every video game that I can remember. http://www.everyvideogame.com/. They have games that run on java emulators through the web pages. Everything is there from Nintendo, Sega, Gameboy, and even games that you would find in an Arcade.
I spent a couple hours playing games like Blaster Master, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star, Stargate, Dragon Warrior, Startropics 2, Boulder Dash, Star Trek Next Generation and more … The thing that isn’t cool is that you can’t save your games progress. There are some problems with some of the games.
Sound quality is not all that great. Sure, you are only talking about 8/16bit systems with bad sound to begin with, but the emulators seem to have some problems. However, it is good enough to take you back to those old days.
Games take a while to load. I don’t know if it is taking a while to download, or load up the game itself. I think we need a progress meter.
Games are not quick to recognize keyboard commands. I would press my arrow keys a few times and still be waiting for my character to move. Some games were ok. I think a game controller would be really handy. It’s odd using a keyboard for these games.
All in all, I had some fun. It brought back memories.
February 26th, 2005 at 11:03 am
I used to use emulators too, but very few of them worked well enough to be called ‘playable’, and even less had any good games on at all because it’s illegal to emulate copyrighted games(or something)
There were a few quality emulators that I still have now, which remind me of the gold days of gaming. I too owned the late Ataris, nintendos, and still have some lying around.
Thanks for the links, there are some good games there even I don’t remember.
-Sam
February 26th, 2005 at 5:44 pm
Wow, thanks a lot for the great link! I had a Nintendo Handheld thinkie in the 80s, with a rather boring donkey kong game on it (I guess I’m going to search it now!), a game boy and a super nintendo.
Currently I’m trying to find all my favourite games for my mobile phone, which unfortunately only plays java games. But anyway, it is great fun to see all those old games back again