How to Play Gameboy Games on Your Computer

I sold my gameboy quite a while ago, but I still get nostalgic every once in a while and have the urge to play some Pokemon. I don't know if that's completely normal, but anyways, it's true. The problem is, I don't have the kind of money to where I could just go out and buy a new gameboy or the time to find somewhere that's selling the games I want. Nor do I have the patience or wit to just keep my gameboy instead of selling it whenever I get bored.

So I figured that the best solution to my problem would be to figure out how to play gameboy games on my computer. It really isn't very hard at all either, it just requires that you search up a few things on google, and download a few programs to your computer. Gameboy games run fast... at least alot faster than games like warcraft run on my crappy laptop. That's besides the point though, now I'll get to telling you how to play gameboy games on your computer.

Step 1: Do a google search for a program called "Visual Boy Advance" which is an emulator (a program used to play game boy roms on your computer). There are other emulators that work well too, but "Visual Boy Advance" is the one that I've been using.

Step 2: Install the program on your computer. Which shouldn't be too complicated, you might not even need to install it at all, I can't remember exactly :D.

Step 3: The fun part, is finding somewhere to download the gameboy games that you want to play. Just do a google search for "pokemon red version gba rom download" replacing the game name with whatever other game you want to download. If your lucky you might end up finding some free library full of Gameboy games that you could download your fun from.

So anyways, that's my guide. Short and simple, hopefully it helps some people find out something they want!