Replay your favourite games from those days. Or get a fresh kick of Ecco history if you've never tried these before.
However, to show some respect - if you like these, get the originals, they're worth it!
Emulation is used to play games of one gaming platform on a different one. In this case you will play games, that have originally been released for the SEGA console "Sega GameGear", play on your home computer. This is possible due to people who are able to copy data from the original game cartridges, and others who are able to write programs that act like the original consoles, or emulate them.
So, the emulator will do the job of the console, while the ROMs will take the game cartridge part. Emulators are very easy to use, and there are a lot of them, for various platforms, even other consoles. However, I will only provide you with one emulator for the Windows platform, as it is the most common used. If you are on a different platform, like Linux or Macintosh, I would like to recommend you the website Zophar's Domain, which has a huge collection of emulators!
If you use Windows, I recommend you to download the following emulator from here:
Click here to download MEKA 0.72 (777KB)
Unzip it to where you want to keep it, and run mekaw.exe. After selecting your language, you will enter full screen mode. To play ROMs (games), choose from the menu Main, Load ROM and choose your game. Configure your gamepad or keyboard with the menu on the screen. Full Screen can be toggled by choosing Video, fullscreen from the menu and can be escaped by pressing Escape.
Download these to where you unzipped the emulator. You don't even need to unzip these files, the emulator will do it for you!
Ecco 1 Worldwide Version (216KB)
Ecco 1 Master System Version (216KB)
Ecco 2 US+European Version (215KB)
Ecco 2 Japanese Version (197KB)