Jibberish

So...I recently beat Street Fighter II Turbo for SNES. My roommate and our IST 110H classmate Garrett Miller gave me the emulator for Super Nintendo including every possible game out there. To revive my childhood experience with SNES, I've been playing a lot of Street Fighter II Turbo. It is probably the game I played the most, because the other games I had were boring once you beat them. Other games I had for SNES was Donkey Kong Country (1 and 2), Batman Returns, and of course Super Mario World. Street Fighter was more like an arcade game. It never got old. It was also playing against my sister until we had blisters on our thumbs. Playing these SNES games on my computer got me thinking how much video games have improved and how old games can be popular to relieve gaming veterans' nostalgias.

My favorite fighter was definitely Ken. So much better than Ryu.

The emulator that I have, with all the games, is less than a GB. It is only 658 MB. That is so surprising that all of the games and the system can fit in my 1GB USB drive, instead of hundreds of cartridges and a 10" x 8" x 3.5" box. If the SNES system was .1" thicker (height), you could fit 4 of Garrett's IBM Thinkpads in the volume of that SNES system. Each of those Thinkpads can process over a thousand times the speed of a SNES system, based on clock-speed. That is how much technology has improved since 8/13/1991, the release date of the SNES. Although you cannot compare gaming systems with a computer, nowadays, Xbox 360s can run as a PC very well with a triple-core processor at 3.2 Ghz.