900 Classic Arcade Games Playable in Your Browser - Now with Sound and Music- Free

lukeloop on 03/11/2014 - 23:30

Moved to Forum: Original Link

Now with sound and music! Put away your coins and quarters, now all free.
Joust, 3 Stooges, Burger Time, Golden Axe, Zaxxon, Qbert and hundeds more.

Knock yourselves out

As per my last post about 10 months ago https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/128621 BUT now with sound and music.

The Internet Archive, a nonprofit that seeks to back up pretty much everything in the entire digital world, has made more than 900 classic arcade games playable in your browser. The site explains, "The game collection ranges from early 'bronze-age' videogames, with black-and-white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music.

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Comments

  • bchliu on 03/11/2014 - 23:39
    +3

    interesting.. MAME in html..

  • ilikeit on 03/11/2014 - 23:44
    -3

    Hard to watch after just viewing the COD Advanced Warfare trailer, plenty of good memories though.

    • gizmomelb on 04/11/2014 - 08:21
      +10

      but I'm betting those 30 year old games have more playability and longevity than COD:AW

      • leonheart1 on 04/11/2014 - 08:37
        +3

        That's only because they made their games close to impossible so kids would keep throwing in coins.

        • ProjectZero on 04/11/2014 - 10:32
          +1

          There's that, but the games are addictive as hell even though they are so simple.

        • gizmomelb on 20/11/2014 - 01:08

          if it wasn't interesting, you didn't put your coins in.

          with COD you can beat the game in a few hours, and then return to the same old multi-player deathmatch and zombie killing.

  • tsunamisurfer on 04/11/2014 - 00:22
    +1

    Servers are overloaded ffs.

    Oh well….I'll play them at work then.

  • Almost Banned on 04/11/2014 - 00:32

    Well, this is pretty cool but I'm not sure its a bargain…

    • furythree on 04/11/2014 - 12:08
      +2

      youre welcome to come to my home arcade where i can set one of these up on my laptop in an arcade cabinet and charge you $1 per turn, but you must first convert $50 into my personal $1 tokens first that are non refundable

  • McFly on 04/11/2014 - 01:06

    The Internet Archive's sites are offline for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.

  • Jster on 04/11/2014 - 01:11

    Scheduled Maintenance

    The Internet Archive's sites are offline for scheduled maintenance and upgrades.

    Please check our twitter feed @internetarchive for updates.

    Sorry for the inconvenience.

  • shibu-thomas on 04/11/2014 - 01:21

    Site is back online :)

  • Sage on 04/11/2014 - 06:55

    dodgey if you ask me. those games are still copy righten, and alot of them are still for sale in various formats.

    • dlaso on 04/11/2014 - 11:48

      I pulled up Street Fighter II and it came up with this copyright 'warning'

      WARNING
      This game is for use in all countries excluding the United States of America, Canada, Mexico and Japan.
      Sales, export or operation inside these countries may be construed as copyright and trademark infringement and is strictly prohibited.

      • furythree on 04/11/2014 - 12:09
        +1

        does Ameristralia count?

        • ProjectZero on 04/11/2014 - 14:09

          Does this affect Turnbullistan as well?

  • CyberMurning on 04/11/2014 - 07:15
    +1

    Street fighter II?

  • RickOnOzBargain on 04/11/2014 - 07:22
    +2

    More classics available here…
    http://www.nanowasp.org/

    For those of you who remember Australia's first/best
    computer the Microbee.

    The emulated tape load runs 1000's of times
    faster than the original 300baud. :)

    • crazyj on 04/11/2014 - 08:49

      Well, Australia's first computer, anyway. IMO, many of the competitors were far superior, including the Apple ][.

  • mousie on 04/11/2014 - 07:40
    +1

    Looks Great on my 4k display. Thanks Op

  • Windows7forever on 04/11/2014 - 07:58

    Thnx

  • ProjectZero on 04/11/2014 - 10:26

    OMG! Elevator action!!!! YES! Thanks~

  • Kamsi on 04/11/2014 - 11:12
    +1

    I hope Golden Axe is in the arcade games, they are my one favorite games I've played :)

  • sonique on 04/11/2014 - 12:01

    WOW!!…so cool. Thanks for letting us know.

  • Moderatorscotty on 04/11/2014 - 12:19

    After a bit of discussions amongst the moderators, we decided to move this post to forums as it's an update of a previously posted long-running deal.

    • No ONE on 05/11/2014 - 00:18

      What happened to 6 months rule. Just curious and not that I care

      • Moderatorscotty on 05/11/2014 - 00:26

        It's getting less relevant as we now support "long running deals" on per-domain level — they get listed first when you go to store's pages, and the comments don't get auto-closed. However in this case it has always been free. It should have been posted in the forums in the first place.

        • lukeloop on 08/11/2014 - 12:03

          Just like the put your name on Mars trip or whatever it was.

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