Emulators have a special place in a geeks hard drive - in a secret folder in between the illegal movies and porn. You may have those hundreds of old school games locked on your desktop hard drive, but that limits your enjoyment of many classic video games. There are other ways to enjoy your games, freed from the confines of your bulky desktop.

PS3 Linux - Yes, the PS3 makes it very easy to set-up Linux right on the system. So with this open source operating system, why not throw some of the excellent Linux emulators on the system for the N64, PSX, and SNES.

Media center PC - For those with an extra couple of bucks, trying buying a small PC hooked up to your big screen TV. Not only can you surf the internet and boring stuff like that, but you can keep all the top Windows emulators. Plus your moving watching gets a lot easy, assuming you have the same ethics with movie files as video games.

PSP - Emulate wherever your heart desires. You will have to hack your PSP (naughty, naughty), but once you do, you can unlock the PSP’s built-in Playstation emulator as well as install some quality SNES and Genesis emulators.

Xbox Media Center - Yup, it’s a very complicated procedure, but with a built-in hard drive and some kick-ass hardware, you can have some excellent MAME and SNES games on your TV all the time (and it gives you some reason to keep your Xbox around).

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