If you grew up when I did and had any attention span for stationary indoor activities, the Super Nintendo was once the coolest thing in the world.

“Snes9x” is a Super Nintendo emulator that runs on your PC or mac, and loads a copy of those original game cartidges as .smc files. The emulator is free but you have to find your own game files on the internets because using them is illegal unless you also own the original game. I owned F-Zero before it broke, so I went ahead and downloaded F-Zero from one of the shady sites that has them. I love F-Zero.

You can go online and buy a SNES controller that’s been converted to USB for $38 here:
 http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=…

Or you can make one yourself using these instructions:
 http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/snes…

WARNING: Playing video games slows recovery and otherwise wastes mental energy that could be efficiently used towards resting for your next workout. The body can’t live without the mind. Use with caution.

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