In 1997, two young hobbyists released two pieces of software that more or less prompted a new wave of interest in “retro” games—which were, at that point, really just a few years old. The first punch was Nesticle, a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator that quite suddenly made it free and easy to play Nintendo’s '80s and early '90s games on a PC. The second punch, delivered near the end of the year, was ZSNES, which did the same for much newer Super Nintendo games. And it was fast—even on the modest PCs of the era.
Hahaha I remember Nesticle. That fucking icon was legendary.
What was the icon?
It was legitimately a hairy pixel art scrotum.
Adult me knows how dumb that is, but 90’s high school me made it a core memory lol. It was peak 90’s. The pointer was also a like severed hand with the bone sticking out the back.
I found an image. But, remember… hairy pixel art scrotum should say NSFW all by itself: https://i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0009/43/1375451168991.jpg
Thanks, shitman!
I love it.
According to Wikipedia, it was a representation of a pair of testicles, but a cursory search isn’t finding any immediate results and the website on Wikipedia appears to be down (perhaps not surprisingly).
It was two ellipses side by side, with NS on them iirc. A gray blue? It’s been 20 years so I may be misremembering