Welcome to Retro Gaming
Here is a list of things required to play retro games
-
Interest in this style of games
- Time to spend
That is all their is needed to begin venturing back in time to
when games where all about challenges and solving the giving problem
where you could shut yourself off from the rest of the world.
Of
course in order to play the games you must have some way to actually
play them. Here is a list of ways to play them. You can use a single
way or multiple depending on your know how or preferences.
-
Emulators and Roms on
laptop/desktop
-
Actual console and games
- Backwards compatible consoles
- Emulators and Roms on new consoles
Each has their own pros and cons which I will explain here for you
to decide which method suits you best depending on your needs.
Emulators and Roms on Laptop/Desktop
These is by far the easiest and quickest way to begin your
adventure back in time to retro games. All you have to do is find the
emulator that matches up with the console you desire to play.
Example Mupen64 is the emulator name for the Nintendo64.
Roms
are just the name of the file giving to emulator games. This is as
simple as searching for the game itself.
Pros:
-
Fast and easy
- FREE
- Can speed up the game
- Can play it on you PC
Cons:
- Not quite the same feeling as
playing it on the console
- Download limit. NB can get a bit carried away with
downloading loads of games
Actual Console and Games
This can be the easiest way if you already have a working console
with the games you wish to play. There is no need to do anything else
if this applies to you. But as I know for most people including
myself this is not the case. As mentioned in the "about me"
I did break my NES cause it needed a bath lol.
Pros:
- Easy to play the games
- Get the enjoyment of playing the games the way it was
designed to be played
Cons:
- Can be costly to get the console
and games
- Difficult finding games
- Also finding a TV/screen which is compatible with the console
Backwards Compatible Consoles
This does not apply to every console. These are consoles which
allow you to play the older games on them. For example the
Playstation 2 could play Playstation games.
Pros:
- Can be easier and better playing
the games this way
- Similar feeling as playing them on
the original console
- Extra games for the fore-mentioned consoles.
Cons:
- Limited to a smaller selection of
games compared to emulators
- Newer consoles are more expensive
in most cases
- These consoles are knowing to burn out quicker
Emulators and Roms on new consoles
This is not for the average person as this involves modifying your
console. This can be enjoyable because you have increased your
selection of games to play for said console instantly.
Pros:
- Increasing choice of games to play
for your console
- Get to play old games on the big
screen with no extra wires
- Use of a controller instead of
keyboard and mouse
- Games are free
Cons:
- Can brick console during
modifying.
- Repeat possibility of bricking the
console
- Not easy to do for certain
consoles.
-
Most difficult way of all the
methods
- Lack of feeling of playing games the way they were meant to
be
I hope these help you begin your adventure back in time in regard
to gaming. Maybe you will play childhood games that you have
desperately been thinking about re-playing or just playing games that
you never had a chance to play.
PS. I use
all of the fore-mentioned methods and I enjoy playing these retro
games more than recent games. Mean reason being I can just flick
through my list of a few hundred games and choose what genre I feel
like playing at that precise moment. Sometimes revisiting old
challenges or dealing with challenges I never encountered
before.
Links for Emulators and
Roms:
http://www.doperoms.com/
http://coolrom.com/
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