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Atari Roms

Sega began work on their 8-bit portable in 1989 after Nintendo's GameBoy was released. At this point it was named Project Mercury and their goal was to make a portable superior to Nintendo's. On 6th October 1990 it was released in Japan as the Game Gear. In 1991 it was released in the US and in 1992 it was released in Europe and Australia The Game Gear is basically a portable Master System, the only major difference being a larger colour palette. It is far superior to the Nintendo GameBoy, with it's colour screen and TV tuner accessory. Another difference is that it is held lengthwise with buttons at the sides rather than the cramped format of the GameBoy. Although the Game Gear (and other portables that tried to compete with the GameBoy) seemed to be much better, the market was looking more for light weight and battery life, which the GameBoy excelled in. Game Gear uses up batteries in 3-5 hours and is rather heavy and bulky. The likeness to the Master System meant that games could easily be ported from the Master System to the Game Gear by burning the ROMs onto Game Gear sized carts. The Master...
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Nintendo 64 ROMs

Nintendo 64 (N64 for short) was released in 1997 in North America. It was originally priced $199 when first released! Not to long after being released, a few programmers can together and built a nintendo 64 emulator. Then people started to dump there nintendo 64 games on to your computer creating n64 roms and uploading them, making them freely available to download and play on home computers. Better then paying $199, right? Nintendo 64 emulators are very bugging when first released. It probably took a year or more until a stable n64 emulator was released. Unlike Super Nintendo and NES, these emulators were much harder to create. Now in 2008, you can play just about any n64 rom without a problem. They become popular a few years back because of games like Super Mario 64, Super Smash Brothers, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. N64 ROMs can be downloaded at many sites. One I personally download from it CoolRom.com. I've been downloading from this website for years now and haven't had any problems with there roms or download speeds. Nintendo 64 rom files are larger in file size compared to nes and super nintendo so download speeds...
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