A video game console is a computer designed primarily for playing video games. As technology progresses, video game consoles are made progressively better and capable of running ever more realistic games. As this happens,
old consoles are made obsolete and become unsupported, thus making it increasingly dicult to experience old games.
One solution to this inconvenience is the practice of emulating old consoles using emulators. A video game emulator is a piece of software designed to emulate the workings of a video game console well enough to make it possible
to run games designed for that console on a dierent system - usually a personal computer or a modern console.
Fans also use emulators to run video game modications unapproved by the manufacturers of the console, such as fan translations and hacks.

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