Retro games are having a bit of a renaissance, and prices for collectors have skyrocketed. Luckily, there are other options, including emulation.

Classic arcade games are easy to play in your browser with no downloads or setup needed. Sites like Internet Arcade and Free 80s Arcade offer a mix of genuine classics and faithful remakes. Some sites ...

You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar approach to consoles. Go to a physical store, get a disc, then pop it into ...

I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an actual floppy disk drive. This video by LGR shows how its done, using a phone’s USB port ...

Palmer Luckey, the man who took a career crafting VR headsets and turned it into a company that sells weapons of war to the U.S. military, also makes a Game Boy-like handheld. The ModRetro Chromatic, ...

Any retro-loving gamer knows it’s next to impossible to legally play most titles from the past 50 years of gaming history. This is where game emulation—essentially recreations of an old console’s ...

Max has been an enthusiast of computers ever since first laying hands on his family's home PC over 20 years ago, playing and even creating custom mods for his favourite games, such as Counter-Strike, ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

Forgotten Gems is a column about notable games that have moved out of the public eye and may not be easily accessible anymore. To see all the other games I've covered so far, check out the previous ...

Hudsen’s Hall of Games is The Michigan Daily’s weekly column about all things gaming. Whether it’s Dungeons & Dragons or the newest Steam releases, this is where you’ll find it!

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