Play Atari and Regular Nintendo Library for free

[massermind19]

Console Classix (http://www.consoleclassix.com/start.php)
This site allows you to play a large portion of the games for the classic atari and NES for free. If you pay $5 a month you can play Sega, Gameboy and Super Nintendo games as well.

[SpottedNigel]

www.everyvideogame.com is another option

[massermind19]

I tried and everygame I tried was very laggy.

[nneace]

Really laggy, although there are alternatives.

[GuilewasNK]

Interesting. I might try it out if I can get my gamepad working on XP.

[TaiZ]

I used to have an account back when all they offered were NES games and their way of calling it legal was saying you were borrowing the games. It was a pretty good service back then ('01 I think, I know it had just started) and I did the pay $5 a month thing when SNES games started showing up, but cancled it when I found myself spending too much time online.

When I used it they used modified versions of SNES9x and I think Nester, but I'm not sure if that's what they use now. They also accepted game donations back then, and I sent them a copy of StarFox and TMNT 3, which got me a few free months of service. Haven't been to the site in forever, I might have to make a new account.

[massermind19]

bump...so anyone that might be interested can see!

[b0bx13]

No need to pay when the legality is the same as normal free emulation and roms.

[pthagonal]

Interesting, but yeah, just get the roms. Nintendo isnt dying when you download them.

[WebScud]

Interesting, but yeah, just get the roms. Nintendo isnt dying when you download them.

It's gonna be a big deal one the Revolution's Virtual Console hits. You can bet that sites lilke this will be gone and they'll be after ROM traders.

[brianmoy]

It's gonna be a big deal one the Revolution's Virtual Console hits. You can bet that sites lilke this will be gone and they'll be after ROM traders.

I heard about that too and am especially interested in the Revolution over the other 2 next gen consoles (if I had to pick 1) if they can get the emulation and sound quality (esp. the great SNES sound) to be as good as the originals.

[Legolas813]

I just came across this Console Classix site. How can it possibly be legal? The whole thing looks really shady.

[soliddragon]

Yeah, thats REAL legal! Them fools are gonna be down in a week!

[Legolas813]

^ Well they have been around a LONG time. Nintendo supposedly tried to stop them in 2001, but were unsuccessful.

http://www.consoleclassix.com/legal.php

[Friend of Sonic]

You know, after reading their explanation, I think their service is fine. They only let one person play a certain game at any given time-- the game is locked out for anyone else. Same idea as a rental store.

[Legolas813]

One person at a time on a specific game? I knew there was a catch.

I think I'll stick with GameTap (http://www.gametap.com), thank you.

[Friend of Sonic]

One person at a time on a specific game? I knew there was a catch.

I think I'll stick with GameTap (http://www.gametap.com), thank you.
Yeah, it does seem lame. Maybe for their most popular titles, they own multiple copies? That's the only way I'd assume their service doesn't suck.