Help me find a video game!

[Fenris]

My son has been playing some old video games at day care. I would love to let him play them at home but I can't find them anywhere. So I turn to the geniuses of google that reside here. Help me find some of these games. Whether it's a CD, a free download or a pay download, (probably my preference) matters less. But they need to be for a PC. We don;t have a "box" system of any kind.

The two he loves most these days are Donkey Kong Country 3, and then some kind of Mario I am not sure which one. Mario Bros 3 would be good. I lost track of all the incarnations, but not too much newer than that would be better. Any other suggestions? Simpler interfaced games are good. Please help, he spent an hour on the way to the doctor's the other day telling me all about Mario (and that was juts from watching the other kids )

Thanks all.

 

[Alzrius]

I think you may need to get a console for those games. Mario and Donkey Kong are both iconic Nintendo characters; there might be some very old DOS-based computer games of them (I don't know), but they'd be well over twenty years old by this point (not to mention possibly having compatibility issues with your PCs).

The only download-based service that I know of for these games is the Wii Shop Channel, on the Wii console (and DKC3 isn't out yet, if I recall correctly).

Sorry.

 

[Thanee]

Emulator maybe.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Fenris]

Except that I have seen with my own eyes them being played on a PC! Now it may be an old PC, but I need the software first. So they did exist at one point.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Except that I have seen with my own eyes them being played on a PC! Now it may be an old PC, but I need the software first. So they did exist at one point.

If its being played on a PC, its either an emulator, which is technically illegal, or a service like Gametap where you pay a monthly fee to have access to a bunch of older games online.

 

[trancejeremy]

I'm not sure if Gametap has Nintendo stuff. Probably emulators, which as mentioned, is pretty much illegal, at least if you play commercial games like that. I know a lot of people handwave the illegal part, but given that many companies are now actively selling their back catalogs (like Nintendo does on the Wii or on retro compilations or gametap), it's hard to justify it as "abandonware"

Realistically though, I can't imagine it would be too expensive to buy an old SNES and the carts. Only the RPGs are really costly. Try a used video game store maybe, not one of the chains, though, usually they only have recent stuff.

 

[Arnwyn]

Except that I have seen with my own eyes them being played on a PC! Now it may be an old PC, but I need the software first. So they did exist at one point.

As others have said - it'll be an emulator. And yes, they're illegal.

 

[Blackrat]

As others have said - it'll be an emulator. And yes, they're illegal.

They are? I remember seeing Nintendo sell NES-emulator along with some old games at some point. Ofcourse I might have been dreaming . And there is some compilation packages of old games that come with emulator build into the game itself. Amigaclassix series comes to mind.

 

[Welverin]

They are? I remember seeing Nintendo sell NES-emulator at some point. Ofcourse I might have been dreaming . And there is some compilation packages of old games that come with emulator build into the game itself. Amigaclassix series comes to mind.

Well the emulator's themselves may not be, possibly excluding a few key files, but the roms most definitely are illegal.

As for a compilation, if it's a commercial release, it's undoubtedly licensed, which would make it legal.

 

[Blackrat]

I did some research and seems I remembered half-correctly. It seems they are selling an emulator that works in Wii. So that wouldn't be helpful in this case.