Playing Arcade Game on PC

I'm an avid retro game lover. Especially arcade games. I used to go to shopping mall to play arcade games such as King of Fighters, Street Fighter, Metal Slug, and many more. That was 15 years ago.

Now, I play all the arcade games using an emulator on my notebook. So, what is an emulator?

An emulator is a type of software that allows a PC/ Notebook to emulate a video game console's hardware, and play its respective games on the emulating platform. Example of emulated console are such as:

• Playstation
• Atari Arcade
• Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

There's a lot of emulator available in the world wide web. Most of it is free to download. The one that I recommend is NeoGeoX. NeoGeo able to support a various games that is meant for arcade.

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Just now in the upper section, I have explain about the use of arcade game emulator. Now the questions is, how to get the games?

Similar to the emulator, out there is a lot website that offer free ROMs for retro game. What is ROM?

• A ROM is a set of computer file. Usually in image or file format. Which every ROM contains a copy of the data from a read-only memory chip.

Usually I get a copy of ROM from romsmania

From there, u can obtain the ROM for games. Just name what type of game that you wanted. Romsmania have a wide selection of it.

Below is the screenshot of games played in NeoGeo emulator

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There is also an emulator for retro games such as Mario Brothers, Contra, PacMan. I'll explain about that in another posting

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