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Also Bleem! and Virtual Game Station for the PSX, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

• amyjess 9y ago
  The PSX was one of the first consoles where emulation didn't typically imply piracy. Because the PSX used the same CD-ROMs as computers, you could stick your game CD in your computer and play it in an emulator. In college, I had a lot of fun bringing my laptop to class with my legal copy of FF Tactics in the drive so I could play it during boring lectures. It was the perfect game for that, since it was turn-based, so if I ever needed to stop playing and pay attention, I could.
  • zeta0134 9y ago
    Yup. The PS1 also had a major advantage in the size of its games. During that day and age, reliably downloading a 700 MB file was a luxury few could afford, and dial-up connections were still especially popular. These days you can just pop on over to your friendly torrent hosting site and pull down any PS1 ISO within minutes, but the technology back then was far less mature, and potential nasty-grams from AOL for downloading torrents put many people off the idea. I fondly remember Bleem, and played my real PS1 disks through ePSXe for years, because it turned my laptop into a portable Playstation. That was a neat trick. I still have my original PS1 and it's in good condition, but I'm glad I don't have to actually rely on the aging hardware to continue to enjoy my collection of games.