King's gambit attack - opponent blunder or great attack?

Game I just played, with what I was thinking.

-After peeling through several of Morphy's games, I was eager to sacrifice some pieces to chop off black's king's head in the King's Gambit. Well, I beat him pretty soundly, but upon reviewing the game, he missed one key move. Against a solid opponent (i.e. a computer, or someone better than me) I would have been smashed. Any recomendations for playing like Morphy?

For the record, when I put in !? that means I was unsure about the move, but it worked out well.

recommendations for playing like morphy : get a lobotomy and get a brain that is able to calculate thousands of variations in minutes which is faster more accurate then most GM's in chess history

Yes, Black's 3...g6 doesn't make much sense against the King's Gambit once they've committed by accepting it.  One of the things I'm liking about the KG as I explore it is that, at our level, there are a fair number of opponents who just don't have the slightest idea how to face the opening, and a move like 3...g6 is a pretty good sign right off that this is one of those situations.  That means Black likely won't know White's common placement squares and goals for this opening.

Instead of 5.Ng5, I probably would have played 5.d4, staking out some center and at the same time targeting his f4 pawn with my Bishop. Now that his Queen has been blocked by his own Knight, he can't very well play g5 to protect his f4 pawn, or you'll just grab the g5 pawn with your Knight.

It might be a good thing your hypothetical line you were thinking about after 11.Qf3 (12.Bxf4 Nxf4 13.Rxe6) didn't work out.  Otherwise, 13...Qxd4+ 14.Kf1 (if 14.Kh1 then 14...Qg1#) Qxc4+ 15.Ke1 (blocking with your Queen or Rook loses either to Black's Knight) Qxe6+ and you've lost a Rook and Bishop and a pawn and you're still in check!

You could have blocked the check from Black's Queen right at the start with 14.Re3+ (discovered check from your Bishop), but that would just allow Black to move his King to g7 and break the pin on his own Knight.  Meanwhile, your Rook would stay pinned, and from all the combos I looked at, I think the very best you could have hoped for was to lose both your Queen and Rook in exchange for Black's Queen.  All in all, I think you're lucky things didn't go down that path!

--Cystem