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Message: [QUOTE="McDoob, post: 70529, member: 30263"] Hell YES! Incorrect. First, emulation began in the EARLY '90s: [URL unfurl="true"]https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/History_of_emulation[/URL] "NES: The early history of NES emulation is vague, but there are some early emulators known to the public. Family Computer Emulator V0.35 for FM Towns, by "Haruhisa Udagawa", with file timestamps of December 12, 1990. It could run some simple NES games such as Donkey Kong." Second, from the same article, NESticle was released in '97, and my memory says it was complete, bug-free, and was optimized well enough to run at full speed on period-correct PCs. And I know for fact that zSNES was released in '97, fully functional and playable, because I was a contributor on that project. Sure. It totally makes more sense to buy four or five consoles at half the price than to buy just one PC? And I don't recall the price difference being that big. Any single console definitely was cheaper than a comparable PC with all the peripherals, but not by half. IIRC, When SNES was popular, one paid at least $200 for it. A 386-based PC with VGA and sound card was...maybe $300 (for just the box, mind you; one doesn't need to replace a working monitor/kb/mouse). Oh, and did you know, before the internet there were BBSes? These were local dial-up services that one could use to upload and download all kinds of files, including emulators! (Un)surprisingly accessible! Smaller? NICHE?!?! Have you stepped completely outside your mind? The home PC market was literally EXPLODING in the '90s and '00s! Have you forgotten about The Clone Wars? And you're now downplaying the sheer number of PC-only games, which as I stated vastly outnumber games released only on console. On top of that, most games ported the other direction also had the same problems. I simply do not agree with that assessment. PC gaming--just PC, no emulation--was already as popular as console gaming in the '90s, if not more so. Adding the ability to emulate these consoles only sealed the deal, so to speak. Let's see if I can stay /rant-ed for a while longer this time...XD -McD [/QUOTE]

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