you can find emulators for pokemon

I would suggest downloading an emulator from the first site you find when type in: Emulators on google (I'd link but that's 10% warn I believe)

And roms from the 2nd site you get when you type in: roms on google.

With these, you can play any Nes, Snes, N64, PS, Atari.... Game that you wish =) Enjoy.

Edit: As an addendum, I would suggest purchasing or using an old wired 360 remote and playing n64 or even xbox/xbox 360 roms (which is illegal I believe? So just a heads up. The older systems are fair game). I had a lot of fun doing this, especially being able to play Super Smash Bros wherever you go lol.

This post was edited by HavocSpinner on Jan 13 2010 10:41am

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damn.. IF you're going on a cruise, immediately drop the games and get laid.
if not, i suggest fallout 3 on comp. (req cd and about 50 bucks)
or, GTA san andreas. you can find this game on torrent sites ez. (free, but takes 800 mb. a little more than much as diablo2)

You want adventure or RPG games with long campaigns

RPG:
Neverwinter Nights 1, 2 with expansions, they are very cheap at game stores at the moment, easier to buy than download. a very fun 1 month to beat everything. Dont forget to go to gamefaqs.com and download walkthrough txt files or it may be hard (:
Heroes of Might and Magic 1-2-3-4-5 are in a package for 20 dollars or something. 1 month to beat everything. gamefaqs an download walkthrough for each game again. they are txt files.
Might and Magic will be boring so skip it.
Strategy games will be boring after you've beaten the campaign, however Warcraft 3 (and the expansion) will take 2 weeks to beat it. Learn the cheat codes with google search. Download it cracked, you wont need battle net.
Any first person shooter or such game will also be boring if you dont have opponents.
Legacy of Kain is a perfect adventure / rpg / fighting game. You will get scared sometimes. Get all versions (cheap, because they are old) and download a faq as well. (2 weeks)
Serious Sam 1 and 2 will scare the shit out of you and will take 1 week to beat.
Sorry for giving you sleepless nights on your cruise.

Most games mentioned are sold for 9.99 $ at game stores because they are in the bargain basket or old games (anything older than 2008 is old)

Baldurs Gate 2 - very fun game, good storyline, many characters.
StarCraft
Diablo 1/2
Warcraft 3
Icewind Dale
NWN
Age of Empires 2
Civilization

If you like FPS's and you are looking for something a bit different, try Hellgate London. Can be got from stores for less than 10 bucks. If you are into itemlaming and character building this could be real fun. Patches can be downloaded from unofficial sites as well as levelled, geared characters.

If you're talking about the eee notebooks, you're gonna be tight on storage unless you buy an external hard drive. If you're looking for real old school games, then the best I found were made for dos in the 90s. These games are really short (a full retail version game could be as tiny as 5 megs) and aren't too hard to setup. You'll need dos box (a Microsoft dos emulator which allows you to run old software easily on almost any windows platforms, even vista or 7) that can be found on http://www.dosbox.com/. For the games, I don't know much about old school RPG games but I can give you a site to check out hundreds of good oldschool games, http://www.dosgames.com/gameindex.php. It looks pretty nice, has a huge list of games, all classed with their game style (ie RPGs, shooters, adventure, kids, w/e the heck you could think of as a class rofl). I like RPG games, but the real oldschool was probably shooters since they were most popular in the 90s with Doom, Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. In my opinion, settings those games are WAY WAY easier than setting any Nintendo game on a computer, because dos games were made for pc architecture, so you don't need to configure all the damn buttons, and are way easier to run on a pc (no memory freeze or anything), it's basically natural. Plus, most of the games made for dos runs right out of the box, meaning that you can run them flawlessly in dosbox and you're good to go. Choose the way you want to play, but if you really want to play Zelda and fake old school crap like that, then you're better buying off a Nintendo nes, 64 or whatever, because these games are not meant to be played on a PC and if you play them on a laptop you might freeze all your stuff while running these because they take alot of memory and graphic resources. Also they're hard to configure, so if you're new to emulators, I strongly advice using dos box just to get used to this stuff. Long to read, but still worth it. Play good =D. Btw peeps, old school means low end graphic games on roms, so differ those from OLD games, for example Doom (1993 iirc) and Diablo II expansion(2001 is a little old rofl) or Half Life (1998)

This post was edited by raieman on Jan 13 2010 11:42am

Forgot to say, these games doesn't need to be paid, since they're not in production anymore. No legal issues can follow you mate, happy downloading in the US.

This post was edited by raieman on Jan 13 2010 11:27am

im going on a float... not a cruise... i can get NJP'd (non-judicial punishment) for sleeping with Navy ladies and im with a Marine Infantry company... so if i get laid there... im gay

and as far as the 50 fg winnings... whoever wins will be paid in the morning... i want to give it a little time, thank you for your patience

This post was edited by Trapslick on Jan 13 2010 12:17pm