How The 1997 'NESticle' Emulator Redefined Retro Gaming (vice.com)

Slashdot reader martiniturbide writes: For those who lived the console emulator and retrogaming boom on the late 90's there is this interesting article about the story of NESticle posted at Motherboard. NESticle was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console emulator that had a huge success in the early internet era and helped to start the emulation scene. The author of the story, Ernie Smith, also posted an extra second part of the story... NESticle was "the product of a talented programmer who designed a hit shareware game while he was still in high school," according to the article, which credits the 1997 emulator with popularizing now-standard emulator features like movie recording and save states, as well as user modifications. Programmed in assembly code and C++ and targeting 468 processors, NESticle was followed by emulators for the Sega Genesis and the Capcom arcade platform before Icer Addis moved on to a professional career in the gaming industry, working for Electronic Arts and Zynga. Leave a comment if you're a fan of classic game emulators -- or if you just want to share your own fond memories of that late-'90s emulation scene.

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I remember that

[guruevi]

There was also a PS1 emulator called Bleem in the late 90s (Windows 95/98 era).

They've come a long way since, back in the day I could barely get one to work and required sometimes hardware and software hacks as well as the original disks to make them work and were often slower than the console. Now they're prepackaged and you can download ISOs and ROMs anywhere.

Re:Shoulda figured it was a high school student

[Anonymous Coward]

Was it the name that tipped you off, or was it the disembodied cock-and-balls dripping blood that was used as a cursor? Because personally, I was a teenager, and the name was just sorta "tee-hee", but that mouse cursor... yikes.