{"id":2839,"date":"2007-10-28T13:39:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T13:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/top-10-vintage-games-emulators\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:41:59","slug":"top-10-vintage-games-emulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-vintage-games-emulators\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 vintage games emulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image2841\" title=\"MAME logo\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/09\/mame_logo.png\" alt=\"MAME logo\" align=\"right\" \/>If you spent many hours of youth in games arcades or sat behind a games console, you&#8217;ll probably occasionally long for those days of poor graphics but great playability. I trashed my Amiga a long time ago but I sometimes get wistful for games such as Kick Off 2, Speedball and Sensible Soccer. When I do, I use an emulator which basically allows you to play old skool games based on their ROM files. Here&#8217;s a selection of Softonic&#8217;s top 10.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/project64.en.softonic.com\">Project 64<\/a> &#8211; Relive all your favourite Nintendo 64 games<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mame32.en.softonic.com\">Mame32<\/a> &#8211; Emulates games from various consoles<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.en.softonic.com\">iDeaS<\/a> &#8211; Simple Nintendo DS emulator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/visualboyadvance.en.softonic.com\">VisualBoyAdvance<\/a> &#8211; Gameboy games in your hands again<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pcsx2.en.softonic.com\">PCSX2<\/a> &#8211; Play Playstation games on your PC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/myemulator.online\/\">MyEmulator.Online <\/a>&#8211; All kinds of emulators<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/1964.en.softonic.com\">1964<\/a> &#8211; Alternative Nintendo 64 emulator<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/console-classix.en.softonic.com\">Console Classix<\/a> &#8211; Play hundreds of Sega and Nintendo games<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/emulation\/\">Reddit <\/a>&#8211; Emulation subreddit<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emulator-zone.com\/\">Emulator Zone<\/a> &#8211; Emulator for\u00a0 classic console games<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scummvm.en.softonic.com\">ScummVM<\/a> &#8211; Emulator designed for games based on Lucas Arts films<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yabause.en.softonic.com\">Yabause <\/a>&#8211; Relive those Sega Saturn console classics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/saint.en.softonic.com\">SainT<\/a> &#8211; Atari ST and Atari console emulator<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you spent many hours of youth in games arcades or sat behind a games console, you&#8217;ll probably occasionally long for those days of poor graphics but great playability. I trashed my Amiga a long time ago but I sometimes get wistful for games such as Kick Off 2, Speedball and Sensible Soccer. When I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/top-10-vintage-games-emulators\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Top 10 vintage games emulators&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336837,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/336837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}