{"id":340,"date":"2008-01-29T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wingfamily.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/classic-nintendo-nes-games-online\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T14:34:08","slug":"classic-nintendo-nes-games-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/2008\/01\/29\/classic-nintendo-nes-games-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Nintendo (NES) games online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only ever owned one video game console system and that was the original Nintendo (NES) system. I didn&#8217;t have very many games, but I loved playing Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Mike Tyson&#8217;s Punch-Out. Several years ago I learned about emulators. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how this works, but essentially emulators are software that duplicates the game environment so it can be played in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>I had forgotten about emulators until the other day when I was looking for a game online. I was expecting to find a Flash version of the game, but came across an emulator from <a href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/c\/?1933\">NESCafe Web<\/a>. As I looked into this further, there are loads of games now available online. They use Java to power them and they are exactly the same as the originals. Very cool!<\/p>\n<p>To find a game, I&#8217;d suggest searching for the name of the game and NEScafe (for instance, searching for Tetris would require you to search for &#8220;tetris NEScafe&#8221; without the quotes).<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested, here are the links I found to my favourite games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyvideogame.com\/play-nes-Mike_Tyson%5C's_Punch*Out!!_(PC10).htm\">Mike Tyson&#8217;s Punch-Out<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everyvideogame.com\/play-nes-Tetris_(U)_%5B!%5D.htm\">Tetris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1980-games.com\/us\/old-games\/nintendo\/d\/Dr_Mario\/game.php\">Dr. Mario<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve only ever owned one video game console system and that was the original Nintendo (NES) system. I didn&#8217;t have very many games, but I loved playing Tetris, Dr. Mario, and Mike Tyson&#8217;s Punch-Out. Several years ago I learned about emulators. I&#8217;m not sure exactly how this works, but essentially emulators are software that duplicates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wingfamily.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}