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When I was 16, I got my first Windows based PC.
I learned shortly thereafter about Emulation — that is, making one thing behave as if it were something else.
I got started with NES emulation about eight years ago, making my computer pretend it was a Nintendo, so I could play classic games all evening, much to the chagrin of my parents and my teachers (who never saw homework from me again).
Shortly after my father died in 2000, I dug deeper into the video game emulation community, and got to watch a LOT of different emulators try to grow in the highly competitive soil of perfected emulation. I’ve watched emulators for nearly every non-Sony console pop up in many different languages. Some of these systems never became popular here in the states, which saddens me — there were a lot of good games that ended up as import only.
Incidentally, I even remember a NES emulator written in Java, called Nescafe. It had a lot of growing to do when I had seen it a bit back.
Today, while looking for free online games to play, I ran into Nescafe again, over at Excessively.net
You can emulate some of the classic games online, in your browser, using their copy of Nescafe. All you need is to have Java installed (and unless you’re running something before Windows 2000, it is very likely that you already have that in place), a keyboard (:)) and a mouse (or other pointing device) to get you going.
Fun times ahead for me. 
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