I am a big fan of video game emulators. These programs allow computers to run software written for other platforms. The results are not always perfect, but the faster the computer and the longer it is since the original platform was released the better the experience tends to be. There are a number of commercial products that allow you to get the arcade experiance in your own home. There has been a recent rise in the number of online emulators. These allow you to take classic consoles games for a spin. There are a number of problems with emulators, the most serious of which is that most of the games are still protected under copyright and have not passed into the public domain.
Recently emulators have made it on to consoles and now companies are selling their old games all over again, to a new generation of games players. However, with the rise of multicore processors it is now possible to emulate current generation consoles on a fairly modest PC. This does have big copyright issues as the games have not been licenced to these platforms.
The next big market is obviously mobile phones and we are starting to see some emulators for the most powerful phones, but how do you control them? I hear you ask, well look no further.
