Welcome To VirtualNES.com

VirtualNES.com is the largest website on the Internet that allows you to play your favorite classic Nintendo Entertainment System games online for free. VirtualNES.com is the official home of, and is powered by the vNES emulator by Jamie Sanders. VirtualNES.com is the largest advertisement-free website to offer NES games, and is completely powered by Players Like You™. If you can, please consider donating money, games, or server space to the VirtualNES.com team.

Unlike our competitors, VirtualNES.com is able to provide you classic NES games without trampling over Copyright laws. We can only provide you with classic NES games that we have here at our offices, which have either been bought out of pocket or donated by Players Like You™. If we don't have the games in our possession, we can't have them online. This protects us from threats of litigation, and protects the users from (wrongly) being hunted down for violating copyrights.

You've Got Games.
Posted on September 1st, 2008.

It's the monthly update. Added this month is the entire collection of Wisdom Tree, Color Dreams and Bunch Games, along with:

Adventure Island II, Clu Clu Land, Goonies II, The, Jaws, Nobunaga's Ambition, Popeye, Simpsons, The - Bart vs. The World, Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular, Soccer, Solomon's Key, Street Fighter 2010, Tennis, Volleyball, Wario's Woods.

Update: Our very loyal, and very Swedish fan, Link, noticed that I accidentally forgot to activate Solomon's Key. It has been fixed, and now works.

Server Downtime Notification
Posted on August 30th, 2008.

The server was down previously for maintenance. After it was taken out of maintenance something else (other than vNES) was hosted on this server and evidently hacked. The problem should be fixed now, and the security issue is being looked into.

I apologize profusely for the outage over the last 24 hours.

Random News - Vol. 2, Issue 3.
Posted on August 23th, 2008.

• I fixed that bug in the forums, I think.
• Next scheduled update is for the 31st.
• We're still waiting on the post office to get around to giving us our insurance payout.
• Please do consider donating to the site.

Random News - Vol. 2, Issue 2.
Posted on August 12th, 2008.

• The lawyers are hard at work at the moment. I was told they overlooked something, and they might have found a new loophole for us. Either way, it's a positive thing.
• We're still waiting on the post office to get around to giving us our insurance payout.
• Please do consider donating to the site.

Random News - Vol. 2, Issue 1.
Posted on August 9th, 2008.

• The following games got added today.
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Deja Vu
  • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
  • Elevator Action
  • Super Glove Ball
• For the two of you who pointed this out, "Solstice - The Quest for the Staff of Denmos" is not a typographical error, Nintendo simply wouldn't allow for the word "Demons" in a game, so Imagesoft switched two letters around.
• We're still waiting on the post office to get around to giving us our insurance payout.
• Plans are being made to add a section for Freeware games to be added, but that's going to take some time to figure out.

Let Them Eat... Games?
Posted on August 7th, 2008.

As we promised earlier, more games have been added to the site. The "Recently Added Games" table is too small to list all of them, so here's a complete list of what was just added:

Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Astyanax, Baseball Stars, BigFoot, Castlequest, Code Name: Viper, Gyruss, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Iron Tank, Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II, Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart's Super Off-Road, Karate Champ, King's Knight, Kung Fu Heroes, Legacy of the Wizard, Loopz, M.U.S.C.L.E., Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Marvel's The Uncanny X-Men, Mighty Bomb Jack, NARC, Operation Wolf, Pinball, Raid on Bungeling Bay, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball, Rollerball, Section Z, Sky Shark, Solar Jetman: Golden Warpship, Stealth ATF, Strider, Swords and Serpents, Target: Renegade, The Guardian Legend, The Legend of Kage, The Rocketeer, Tiger-Heli, Win Lose or Draw, Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Wizards & Warriors, World Games, Wrecking Crew.

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