Episode 609: The State of Emulation
Added 2024-04-29 07:00:04 +0000 UTCWhile it started exclusively as an activity enjoyed by a small demographic of ultra-nerdy young people with knowledge of obscure websites, emulation has gradually blossomed over the past thirty years into something we all do regularly—often while obeying copyright laws. Without emulation, most retro games would be entirely inaccessible to all but the select few with the cash available to purchase pieces of decades-old plastic that are only increasing in price and decay. And would our little podcast even exist without emulation? It's a thought too terrifying to dwell on.
This week on Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Read Only Memo's Wes Fenlon, and Zophar's Domain founder Zophar (check out his YouTube and Twitch channels) as the crew discusses the many big moments from emulation's history—and how the subject has recently become more relevant than ever.
Comments
Zophar and Bob! Together at last!
Raven
2024-06-12 19:11:28 +0000 UTCSuch a cool topic! Fantastic guests and episode!
litax874
2024-05-31 06:09:16 +0000 UTCThis was a fantastic episode and a great effort by Retronauts. Like videogames (of which emulation is am important subset), emulation also grew up as I did. I really enjoyed the reminisces about the early days of emulation and how wild it felt to play a NES game on a computer. I appreciate the recognition that emulation gave a proof of concept to publishers that fans are still interested in old games and willing to pay money for them. It took them a while to come around, but they finally did it. I personally have purchased FF6 remakes on more systems that I can remember.
CapNChris
2024-05-07 03:48:16 +0000 UTCThere’s just something about playing NES games with a keyboard 🙂↔️ Also it’s kinda weird to explain to people that we once used to install plugins into Winamp to play NSFs - NES music files. ZD has a sizable archive of those
John Simon
2024-05-03 20:46:40 +0000 UTC
