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First Contact with Emulation (brainbaking.com)
4 points by ingve on May 14, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The first handheld console I owned was a Game Boy Advance SP with a copy of Metroid Fusion. It's still one of my favourite games and the namesake for my handle.

I remember distinctly that the instruction manual for the game contained brief synopses of the previous titles in the series, which piqued my curiosity. Not owning a NES or a SNES, I searched online for ways I could play those games and figured out I needed to download snes9x and something called a ROM. Super Metroid quickly became my favourite in the series and the genre as a whole.

As a kid with not much money I ended up playing a lot of emulated games. My fascination with "retro" stuff certainly began there.




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