![]() And speaking of phones, the entire Nintendo library is now at your fingertips-literally-if you download the NES.emu emulator to your cell and use or to download any of the nearly 1,000 NES and FamiCom (Japanese Family Computer, the NES precursor) ROMs now available.Ī list of NES games available on the Nintendo Switch via Switch Online. ![]() Just so, archival “finds” have made previously unavailable NES games from the eighties available as “ROMs” playable on your cell phone (see, e.g., the video below). ![]() Nintendo lovers are making “homebrew” NES games (see, e.g., here, here, and here ) that are almost as good as original NES releases, and they’re putting them in boxes and in cartridges that are identical to those you might have found in the eighties-meaning that anyone who wants to discover “new” NES games in 2021 can do so. Always a focus of niche video game collectors, the third-most-acclaimed gaming console of all time is now something you would never expect a thirty-plus year-old piece of hardware to be: a platform for new discoveries. ![]() Nintendo -by which I mean the original Nintendo Entertainment System from the mid-1980s-is having a renaissance that no one could’ve anticipated.
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