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Message: [QUOTE="FloatIslands, post: 264117, member: 51663"] It would be some time around 1998 since right after we got the brand new original iMac (we'd been an Apple family since getting a Macintosh Performa around '92) and we subscribed to MacAddict Magazine which came bundled with CDs filled with various demos and free software, and one month it included a copy of iNES, probably because it was notable as one of the earliest emulators to let you play NESm games on MacOS? I was only like 10yo and didn't fully comprehend what an emulator was yet, I toyed around with the settings, I played the included rom that was just an input test display, I could tell it was like a virtual NES but did not get how one could possibly plug a cartridge into a computer. I think it was only a couple years later when a gaming magazine (probably EGM) wrote something about the bootleg fully transalted NES version of Mother called "EarthBound Zero" and I think they even directly referenced a website that hosted it, which is insane to imagine a major publication doing today. From that I finally put 2 and 2 together and worked out how to emulate it, though I probably fell off once I got hopelessly lost in Duncan's Factory. But from there I figured out how to emulate more systems (shout out to Richard Bannister), primarily SNES and checked out all the rare and unlocalized games I would've never had the oppertunity to try otherwise. I think Harvest Moon was my first huge time sink, "a game where you just FARM?" felt like such a unique and interesting novalty back then, and the dreamy atmosphere deeply immersed me. After I dipped my toe in all the big hitters I happened to stumble on this kinda bizarre site I think was called "Son of Fat Head Cat" which was an incredibly comprehensive and well organized directly of all SNES/SFC games which also happened to host the roms on each wiki-like page. Does anyone remember this site? [/QUOTE]

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