One Screen Saver to Rule Them All

Be the envy of your cubicle farm with a screen saver that plays Nintendo

As unlikely as it may sound to you now, a day will come when you inevitably grow bored of your dangerously cute screen saver showing kittens dressed in formal wear. When it does, rest assured that you can continue to combat burn-in with what can only be described as the greatest screen saver ever imagined. (OK, so who cares that LCDs don’t actually need screen savers in the first place?)

Bear witness to the Nintendo Screen Saver, a piece of Windows-only eye candy that lulls your computer to sleep with classic NES games playing in demo mode—those little movies that run before you press START. The software can be customized to display just one game or a mosaic of as many as can fit on your screen. You can even play them with sound! But, that’s not all. Because the program is based on the venerable UberNES Nintendo emulator, at any time you can press the space bar to jump right into gameplay.

Check out video of the screen saver here, download it and prepare to never again blow on a game cartridge.

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