Screensavior!

Do you love the original Nintendo Entertainment System?

Do you love computers?

Do you hate staring at a bland boring cycle of photos, images, or colors that are designed to "save" your screen?

Fear not, I think I have found the solution to your problem.  It's called the UberNES ScreenSaver, courtesy of UberNES.  Here's a look at it in action:



The program allows you to display the "Demo Mode" of your favorite NES ROMs and tile them to fill up your idle workspace (like a dual-monitor set-up seen above) with old-school greatness.  You can even set up your own videos to play, highlighting great moments in videogaming history.

What is "Demo Mode"?  Think about that arcade you used to go to...that roar of digitalized grunts and colorful sprites.  You might have a sample of the gameplay running (X-Men the Arcade Game always comes to mind) or prologue of the fun.  Once you pop in a quarter or swipe the card at the local Dave & Buster's, everything stops and the game begins.  Now times that by 30 (60 if you're thinking dual-monitor)...never boring, alway changing, constantly awesome.  Best of all, if something grabs your attention at the time, it's no more than a few clicks away from playing!


Now the program itself breaks no rules, but you need to own a copy of the different ROMs to load into the program.  So unless you have a USB Cartridge reader and download your old collection onto your CPU, don't go scouring the internet for illegal copies of your favorite games.  I'm S.O.L. because I don't have any Nintendo games here with me, but if you do, do yourself a favor.  Download UberNES ScreenSaver here, give thanks to the development team here, and enjoy!

[via OhGizmo!]

*p.s. sorry about the crappy title