Download and Play 8/16 bit Console Games on Your Computer


The early 90′s was a glorious time for gaming, would you like to recall those wonderful gaming days by playing the classic console style games on your PC ? If you prefer playing and collecting retro games, the following short guide will a help you to play console 8 and 16 bit  console games that you used to play when you were younger.

Play Classic Console games on your PC

I think you might heard about emulators. In case you don’t  know about it -“ An emulator is a program that super nintendo consoleallows you to play games on your computer that conventionally run on another piece of hardware. For example, Kawark  emulator enable you to play Neo-Geo and Capcom games on your PC.

All you need is just few simple downloads – an emulator and ROM files of games.  You will need unique emulator for each game system ( such as MAME, Nintendo 64, SNES  etc.) and for operating system ( such as Windows, Mac and Linux ).

There are website such as  http://www.romnation.net/ and http://www.coolrom.com/ that will make things really easy. They have a huge collection of  ROM files and the required emulators to play them.  After you download a Game Rom, just put it into ROM folder which you will find inside the emulator folder. Load game in the emulator and assign controller keys for players from the settings on top menu. Every emulator works slightly differently, so be sure to read any additional information file that come with it.  I have shared some screenshot of Classic console games that you can enjoy .

kawaks emulatorvisual boy advance emulatorProject64 emulator

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Author:  Ishank Badhani   Article Posted on:  Feb 24, 2011   Posted in: