Play more than 2,500 Nintendo games in Firefox
If you miss those good ol' arcade titles you used to play in your Nintendo Entertainment System, whine no more: NES is back on your favorite web browser!
FireNes is a Firefox add-on that lets you play more than 2,500 NES titles of all times, covering all sorts of interests and styles. Games appear listed in alphabetic order on a sidebar to the left of your screen (if you don't see it, open it with Tools > FireNes), from which this list you can choose the one you want to play and run it with a double click.
The sidebar also includes two other tabs (Top and Favorites) to manage games in a different way. It would have been great to have some kind of search tool to quickly locate certain games though.
When launched, games appear on a small-sized window that runs independently from Firefox. Controls are limited to arrow keys, Enter, Ctrl, Z and X, though sometimes the game does take a while to react to them.
Also, I noticed that some games are a bit buggy, but you can always let the author know by filling in a small form. In any case, FireNes features such a huge collection of games that you'll surely find that one title you were hooked on a few years ago.
User reviews about FireNes
by Anonymous
Sound?!.
I finally installed an updated version of Java and it started to work just fine with the exception of the sound. I can hear it, but it sounds like a skipping CD. As if someone is strangling my computer. My sound only does this with the FireNES. Everything else works perfect. How the hell do I fix this?! More
by Anonymous
To those of you having problems!.
Make sure you have the latest version of JAVA installed on your machine. I updated Java and Firenes began to work.Hope it helps. More
by Anonymous
well...
this doesn't work for me.. any ideas would be good. it starts the game but i cant do anything after that :(
help would be good thanks :)
i really want this, love the old school games More
by Anonymous
AWESOME!.
One of the best browser plugins I've ever used. I use it in Flock.
Works WONDERFULLY!
Pros: Brings my favorite gaming system to my browser!!
Cons:
NONE! More