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Emulators

The best free emulators for every system of the golden era, from the Apple II to the PlayStation 3, in the order the machines came out. Every link goes to the emulator's official site.

Play it legal. Emulators themselves are legal. Games and system files (BIOS and ROMs) are still copyrighted, so use copies you own, official freeware, or versions sold on stores like GOG and Steam. We never link to game or BIOS downloads.

For every era

ScummVM ↗ Runs classic point-and-click adventures natively, with official freeware games RetroArch ↗ One front end for many emulators, using libretro cores MAME ↗ Thousands of arcade machines and many home computers

By system, oldest first

1987 PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Console
2000 PlayStation 2 Console
2001 Game Boy Advance Handheld
2004 PlayStation Portable Handheld
2006 PlayStation 3 Console