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Emulation, for years it has been refuge for many a fan of classic gaming. The problem with it has always been the lack of the tactile enjoyment that one can only get from pulling the gray cartridge of a NES game out of the sleeve, blowing in the slot, inserting the cart, powering up and picking up that small rectangular red black and gray controller. After a long absence from Emu (aside from the Virtual Console), I sort of got back in to it these last few days due to one piece of equipment in particular.

The Retro Pad, which used to be sold by Retro Zone but now is kind of hard to find has made my daily ritual of Nestopia approx. 89342% better. Not since red, gold and green herbs has there been a combination as beneficial to videogaming. f you are looking to get in to it, then this is the trifecta that you should be steering towards.

I don’t know what it is about using this controller that does it, but it does make all of the difference. Let’s face it, Emu using the keyboard is a busted way to play the classics of yore, and every commercial controller is painfully lacking in the nostalgia department. I mean, that’s why I want to play these games, for nostalgic value. If I had a perfectly functioning NES with every game cart, I would play it that way. But I don’t, so I can’t. The absolute next best way to go is with the Virtual Console (suckily, the retopad will not work in conjunction with the Wii without 1337 H4x0r2). So you pretty much have to o this way if you want to try your hand at the games which used to kick your ass way back when, which in my case was Wizards and Warriors.