All the major hardware manufacturers now do this on their current generation consoles.

A PlayStation emulator called PSX4Droid used to exist on the Android Market, but was taken down after Sony released an official “PlayStation Pocket' app, on which the company hopes to eventually release sanctioned versions of old PlayStation titles. Similarly, there is ePSXe ( which can play all your PlayStation 1 CDs on your PC, and PCSX2 ( ), which does the same for the PlayStation 2. For its successor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), try ZSNES ( or Snes9X ( The latter is also available for Android phones via the Android Market, though it’s recommended that you have a phone with a keyboard. The best NES emulator is Nestopia (), which supports nearly every game released for that system. It goes without saying that you’ll need the original cartridges or CDs in order to play these games legally, although many Internet sites offer pirated copies for free download. The most popular method of playing old video games on modern systems is through a program called an “emulator', which mimics the workings of the original console the game was designed for, be it an old Nintendo Entertainment System (or NES, on which the original Super Mario Bros was released) or the Sony PlayStation 1. But intrepid developers have made huge strides, and PC and smartphone owners today have access to a gigantic library of classic games available to play, albeit in a legal grey area.

The movement to make classic video games playable on modern computer systems has been an endeavour fraught with copyright difficulties and technical shortcomings.

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