eli5: Why do we need emulators to play old games? why can’t we just make the games work without the emulator?

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eli5: Why do we need emulators to play old games? why can’t we just make the games work without the emulator?

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Imagine that games are trains – those trains can only run on the tracks that they are made for.

New computers have different tracks, the games/trains can’t run on those tracks directly and need an emulator to fit those new tracks instead, which they can then run on.

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