NES USB adapter

Retro games have held a special place in our hearts ever since we were a kid. Well, its probably because of the fact that we were a kid why these games hold a special place. No gamer kid alive today would settle for the horribly uncomfortable controllers that the NES had but there is something special about them to the rest of us who remember staying up hours playing Ninja Gaiden or Zelda.

Some of the legendary and largest franchises in video games today can trace their roots back to the NES console. It came out during a time when video games were beginning to decline and it basically slapped the market in the face to awaken it once again. Personally we prefer to play NES games on an emulator now because we don’t have the cable adapter to plug it into our HDTV. With a computer, a few MB of spare hard drive space and a NES USB adapter we were able to basically recreate the NES experience on our Windows 7 machine. Some of our fondest childhood memories involved playing games like Final Fantasy and E.T on the NES console thinking “wow these are the greatest graphics ever!”

OK so we might have lied about that last game because as I recalled it was pretty god awful. Still, we’re not kidding about hte NES occupying some of our fondest childhood memories though! To recreate that today, all you would really need is a classic NES controller (you can find them online), a computer that has a USB port (um, you’d have to be pretty old school not to) and a Nintendo USB Controller Adapter to connect both pieces of hardware. Just plug all 3 together and voila, instant childhood memories!

While we’re on the topic of childhood games though. Do you guys have any advice on beating Battletoads? It has been an epic lifelong struggle to beat that game and I’m still not past the 3rd level!