🕹️ PICKLE ARCADE 🕹️
Real console emulators, right in your browser. Blow on the cartridge and let's go.
🎁 Free Game Shelf — tap & play instantly
Real homebrew games by modern devs, hosted here 100% legally (open licenses — credits below). No files needed.
🐿️ Nova the Squirrel
A full-length platformer starring a squirrel with serious moves — grab blocks, toss enemies, save the day.
🐉 Dragon's Castle
Castlevania-style action — young witch Merlina storms the castle to take down the dragon.
🪐 Miniplanets
Hop between tiny spinning planets and snag all the fruit before the clock runs out. Fast & addictive.
🎲 Libbet & the Magic Floor
Roll across the magic floor and light every tile — a brainy little puzzler with real charm.
🏙️ µCity
A whole SimCity in your pocket — zone, build, balance the budget, and watch your city grow.
Games by their awesome creators, shared under open licenses: Nova the Squirrel (NovaSquirrel, GPLv3) · Dragon's Castle & Miniplanets (Sik, zlib) · Libbet (Pino, zlib) · µCity (AntonioND, GPLv3)
STEP 1Pick your console
Optional — I'll auto-detect it from your game file. Tap one to override.
STEP 2Load your game
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Drop a ROM file here or tap to browse
.sfc .smc .md .gen .bin .nes .gb .gbc .gba .n64 .z64 .zip
🧠 Where do the games come from?
This page doesn't host any commercial ROMs — you load game files from your own device and they run locally in your browser (nothing is uploaded anywhere). Backups of cartridges you own are your business; and there's a whole world of free, legal homebrew games made by modern devs for these consoles:
- itch.io — tons of free NES / SNES / Game Boy homebrew (search "NES rom" or "Game Boy rom")
- PDRoms — a classic archive of legal homebrew & public-domain ROMs for basically every console
- Homebrew Hub — hundreds of community-made Game Boy games
- 🎮 Plug in a USB / Bluetooth controller — it just works (press a button so the browser sees it).
- 💾 Your save states live in this browser, per game.
- 📱 On a phone, rotate to landscape for the full arcade feel.