The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) made its debut in 1985 and changed the entire face of video gaming. No longer the limited to just geeks, the NES brought home console gaming to the masses. During its heyday, Nintendo had over 85% of the market. Though the NES died in 1991, the fan base hasn't.

To set another milestone, NES emulators are the most popular and the most plentiful. Since emulators can never capture all the intricacies of the original console, some emulators work better with some games than others. Try a few and have fun!

iNES

iNES is one of the oldest and most versatile NES emulators. It works with almost every single game, with very few glitches. After downloading the emulator, you need to download ROMs of your favorite games (see below). Unfortunately, while there is a recent Mac version available for download, the only PC version is from awhile ago. The full PC and various other versions (ie Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) can be found for sale at http://www.komkon.org/fms/iNES/. The Mac version is a demo, but can be registered as a full version at http://order.kagi.com/?E4&S.

PC Version v .5u (112K)
• ftp://game-revolution.com/pub/files/ines.zip

Mac Version v 1.0.2 (Power PC) (330K)
• ftp://game-revolution.com/pub/files/ines.sit.bin

NESticle

PC Version v .42
• ftp://game-revolution.com/pub/files/nesticle.zip

Gray Box

Mac Version v .30 (Power PC) (120K)
• ftp://game-revolution.com/pub/files/GrayBox030.sit

ROM Sites

Note: Due to copyright laws, it is illegal to download a ROM of any game that you do not own, unless you delete it within 24 hours. These laws also make it difficult to keep up with functioning ROM sites and often these sites are not available. Game Revolution does not host any ROM images on our site, nor does Game Revolution endorse piracy.

• http://www.iknet.com/roms/
  
• http://www.httpcity.com/ronq/dwnld/rom/index.html