While the emulators included may lack some features or be less accurate than a standalone emulator, its the price you pay for the convenience. As long as you have a decent machine you can play games from various systems, often times at better quality than on the original platform, with cloud saves, retroachievements support, customizable controls and other great features that make retroarch useful and worth the low low price of FREE and readily available on steam.

Wait, seriously? They have reviews for this thing? Well, guess I’ll throw mine in too, since writing is my jam anyway!

So, what can I say about this program/platform/thingamajig? I downloaded it because an old friend swore it would let me play all those childhood classics I grew up with. And after 18 hours of playtime, I can confirm: it’s awesome!

Now I can freely hunt down old SNES, Nintendo, PS1, Sega, you name it! All those retro gems most younger gamers wouldn’t touch because "ew, pixel graphics!" But who cares? Game Boy classics, Doctor Mario, vintage Mario, total nostalgia overload. And don’t even get me started on Bomberman from my SNES days, pure gold!

Yeah, you’ll need to do a tiny bit of digging to find ISO files, but once you load them up? Magic. So, do I recommend this program/platform/whatever? Absolutely. Stellar stuff!

Online updater is missing, making this version useless.