Think back to some of the first video games you ever played at home. Can you still remember the excitement surrounding those games? Perhaps you enjoyed the challenge of trying to save "the princess" from the evil clutches of Bowser. Or maybe you remember the anticipation of playing the newest text adventure game, while waiting for your lightening-fast Commodore 64 to LOAD"*",8,1<RETURN>.

For myself I still sometimes reminisce about playing those old classic games. I recall spending hours trying to defeat all the monsters/ghosts and finding the body parts of Dracula in the chilling Castlevania series. I also remember 'stealing lives' many times by accident in a 2-player game of Contra. I remember waiting impatiently for Wasteland to load. Mercilessly blowing inside of Nintendo cartridges to make them function properly. Playing basketball on an Atari when the ball was actually a bouncing square and not round at all in the least bit!

Anyway, if you remember these old games and wish you could play them again, or even if you did not play them when they were the newest and best, there is some good news. You don't have to go out and search for the game systems and cartridges if you want to play them again. Instead, you can play them right now on your own computer! The original games, just as they were years ago. Just download the emulators that you are interested in. These emulators, mostly written by private individuals, have the ability to play ROMs (emulation term meaning games) just as good or even better than the original gaming systems themselves!

I am only providing emulators on this server and not any ROMs. If you want the ROMs and games to play, check out my links to emulation sites. There I have compiled a list of the best emulation sites on the web, where you can download ROMs...and lots of them too!

To use these emulators you will need a utility capable of uncompressing .ZIP files, such as PKZIP or WinZip.

Emulators
FILENAME	SIZE	EMULATOR	SYSTEM	INFORMATION
NEST043.ZIP	473kb	Nesticle v0.43	NES	Emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System flawlessly. Has game saving options, game music save options, and Game Genie support.
GEN032.ZIP	413kb	Genecyst v0.32	Sega Genesis	Includes Game Genie support, game saving options, and more. Emulates the Genesis nearly perfectly.
wgens191.zip [homepage]	393kb	Gens v1.91	Sega Genesis & Sega CD	Excellent Genesis and Sega CD emulator for Windows. Fullspeed for most games, ability to play networked games online through Kaillera, and perfect sound.
zsns1r35.zip [homepage]	465kb	ZSNES v1.35	SNES	Does the best job thus far of emulating the Super Nintendo, while packing in loads of features. Has game saving options, screen capture, Game Genie and cheat code support, and FX chip support. Requires at least a Pentium 120 for full-speed emulation but still does an adequate job on slower systems.
VisualBoyAdvance-1.4.zip [homepage]	462kb	VisualBoy Advance v1.4	GameBoy Advance	An excellent GameBoy Advance emulator for Windows. Includes all the features one would expect to find in a modern emulator. With a high focus on compatability, this emulator runs almost every game very well on a higher end PII and up.
gnuboy103-dos.zip [homepage]	108kb	gnuboy v1.0.3	GameBoy	One of the best GameBoy/GameBoy Color emulators currently available for most operating system. Games run flawlessly and sound emulation is very accurate. Save state support and other features are abundant in gnuboy.
dboy075.zip	141kb	D-BOY v0.75	GameBoy	An excellent GameBoy emulator capable of properly emulating standard GameBoy games, color games, and Super GameBoy games. The options on this emulator are difficult to figure out because the readme is in Japanese, so I recommend the front-end found below.
dboyfrontend.zip	166kb	DBOY Frontend v0.92	GameBoy	A Windows interface that makes D-BOY (above) a lot easier to use.
CCS64.ZIP [homepage]	371kb	CCS64 v1.97	C64	Full emulation of the Commodore 64, including joystick support, screen capture, game saving, and much more.
PCE-1.ZIP	104kb	MagicEngine v0.8	TurboGrafx16	Currently the best TurboGrafx16 emulator available. Full sound and video emulation, driven by an easy-to-use menu system.
meka062b.zip [homepage]	580kb	Meka v0.62b	Sega Master System, Game Gear, and more	Properly emulates Game Gear, Sega Master system, Colecovision, Sega Game 1000, Sega Computer 3000, as well as Othello Multi Vision. Includes a wonderful GUI with color and theme options, has game saving capability, and more.
z26v154x.zip [homepage]	62kb	z26 v1.54	Atari 2600	Perfect emulation of the classic Atari 2600 console gaming system. Supports a variety of video/display modes, and runs very quickly as it is coded in assembly. Supports additional games with Parker Brothers and TigerVision chips.