Welcome to Cool Retro Games

Thanks for visiting Cool Retro Games! A great way to entertain vistors on your MySpace for file is to provide old school classic games. At Cool Retro Games we have Pacman, Simon, Space Invaders, Duck Hunt, Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, and Asteroids. All of these games can be added to your MySpace profile by simply copying and pasting the code found on each games page. The best place to put these retro games is on your "about me" page since it will be visible at the top of the screen.

About Retro gaming:

Most popular retro games are those produced around the 1980s, and include games for the Commodore 64, ZX81. ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, and Sega Genesis/Megadrive. Arcade games are also popular, especially early games by Sega, Atari, and Williams Electronics. Games in this era were frequently attributed to individual programmers, and many retro gamers seek out games by particular developers, such as Eugene Jarvis, Dave Theurer, Jeff Minter, Tony Crowther, and Andrew Braybrook. Some games are played on the original hardware; others are played through emulation, and in some cases entirely new versions of the games are written.

As well as playing games, a subculture of retrogaming has grown up around the music in retrogames. Since older hardware did not have the facility to play music CDs or sampled music, the music in many retro games had to be synthesised on the fly by the game hardware; writing music for these platforms therefore became a hybrid of traditional music composition and programming. One of the most popular genres is SID music, music written to be synthesised by the Commodore 64. As with programming, attribution to individual composers is commonplace and more easily assigned; popular composers include Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Chris Huelsbeck.

Various compilations of retrogames have been published for modern video game consoles in recent years. Examples include compilations of retrogames by Sega, Taito, Midway, Capcom, and Namco. Cool Retro Games compilations for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox usually feature 10 to 30 games each. In addition, "plug-and-play" units (simple systems that look like a game controller and feature built-in games) released in North America have featured retrogames by Electronic Arts, Sega, Atari, and several other game publishers. Moreover, illegal (unlicensed) "plug-and-play" systems featuring retrogames for the NES have made their way to shops all over the world from China in recent years.