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Play Contra, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, and more in Google Chrome
Yes, Google, you can proudly herald this one as a major victory for your browser in my books. If other Javascript benchmarks haven't been anything you could get excited about, maybe this one will do it. Ben Firshman's Javascript NES emulator runs best in Google Chrome.
Just head on over to his site (which will likely start bogging down today as this little baby inevitably moves from Reddit to Digg), pick a game, and get ready for some early 90s video gaming excitement.
One downside: you'll have to be cool with a similarly early 90s style screen (think original Gameboy). You'll only get a viewable area of about 256x240. If size isn't a major concern for you, here's a list of the games you can play:
Contra- Donkey Kong
- Dr. Mario
- Golf
- Legend of Zelda
- Lemmings
- Mario Bros.
- Pac Man
- Super Mario Bros.
- Tennis
- Tetris
- Tetris 2
- Zelda II
- Super Mario Bros. 3 (partially working)
[via Reddit]
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Zaven said 10:35AM on 9-17-2009
Felt the need to test this on my iphone. Surprisingly it does load but it only goes at about 2 fps.
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Rollins said 12:18PM on 9-17-2009
VirtualNES has a much better game selection and has been around for a while now.
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Lee Mathews said 12:21PM on 9-17-2009
I've hit on Vnes in the past, but this one is pure Javascript - no JRE/plugin required.
Money Mike said 12:47PM on 9-17-2009
That screen size is pretty small, but it's still pretty cool. Is there supposed to be sound, though? That seems like a huge missing feature... unless it's just not working in my version of Chromium.
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Geoff said 1:21PM on 9-17-2009
Early 90s? better than 75% of those titles are mid- to late-80s.
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