Worth what you pay for it

One of my favorite sayings is that “Free advice is usually worth every penny that you paid for it.”  Sometimes it is worth more.  Sometimes, though, you overpaid for it!  Like the time that someone told Tiger Woods, “Go ahead, you’re covered.  No one can possibly find out!”

Well, sometimes we get caught in the same trap …  well, maybe not the SAME trap (I suspect that most of us don’t have more dollars than the Beijing phone book has Wongs … Which by the way, is a lot of wong numbers 😉 Nor do most of us have cartloads of groupies … BUT we do attempt to color outside the lines and expect that nothing will come of it.  Specifically, we want something for nothing.  The something for nothing that I refer to now is free emulators.

Granted, some old school games were awesome (Rip off comes to mind).  Granted we don’t have the money to own every system.  Granted, lots of websites offer us the chance to play the games that we want, with the emulator, for free.  What we forget to grant, though, is that people can be very nasty.  Reports are spreading of viruses for your modified consoles now.  These viruses (Viri?) come embedded in the emulator code, and will happily eat your console’s code for breakfast and excrete it as nothing more than a very pricey doorstop (with stink lines rising from it).  And they are getting more common.

Can you get a great deal with your free emulator and save a few bucks and play some great games?  Yes, but only if it is worth the risk of having to replace your console.  And if you have the money to do that, you really should just go buy the console that the game was meant for.  The game will play better on that anyway.  Do I think it worth the risk?  No.

Free emulators, they are worth every penny that you pay for them … unless they aren’t.

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