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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]
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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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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