I must agree with Gizmodo on this one, when they write:

Will the madness never end? People: you have a PSP. Stop it with all the emulating and hacking and stuff. Just be happy with what you have. Can’t you sit still for one minute, play your basketball game or whatever, and stop trying to reverse engineer everything that comes down the pike?

Someone came up with a way to play SNES ROMs on the PSP. Which feels like a huge waste of time and resources to me, but I am sure many geeks out there will be happy to play their very old and expensive imported games on a PSP, while in the bus going to the next cosplay convention… If you recognize yourself in the above description, you can download the software at psphacker.com.

1up.com has a great feature about cartoons based on video games characters, and there are some you might remember. There are others you will be happy you forgot them until now. And then some you wished you’d never seen (Q*bert with a jacket and arms? Come on!)…

Forget the PSP and the Nintendo DS: if you’re really serious (some would say “geek”…), you need to get yourself a N64p. At least, that’s what Ben Heckendorn thought. Visit his page to see the whole building process.

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The cool thing about growing up in the 80’s is that my generation saw a lot of tech things be born and grow to become the huge complex things they are today. Sounds corny but I can’t help to feel that you can enjoy a PSP better when you started playing on an Atari 2400. We spent hours in front of Pitfall! and Donkey Kong, and I believe we appreciate the graphics of the PSP much more than a kid who never played on anything else than a PS2. And it doesn’t only apply to the hardware, the games too have evolved, but more often than not you can’t beat the fun brought by the simplicity of classic games.

Sony seems to agree with me on those two points. They released a set of classic games for the PSP, and they were clever enough to make it attractive both for the old timers like me, and for the kids. The disk contains the original versions of Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Galaga, Galaxian, Rally-X, New Rally-X, and Dig Dug. The real original version like you used to play in smoky coffee shop on those tables that were also arcade games. And they made new versions of these games so that if fills the screen nicely (original games were vertical, remember?), and so that colors and sound use the PSP capabilities a bit more. But they kept the new games close enough to the original ones, so that it is fun to play even if you’re a purist.

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