Fans of classic arcade games and home consoles of yesteryear can relive their wasted youth with The Internet Archive’s vast collection of games. The Internet Arcade has “hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles … 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. Most games are playable in some form, although some are useful more for verification of behavior or programming due to the intensity and requirements of their systems.” All the games can be downloaded or played free on your Internet browser. Fans of Pac Man, Street Fighter, and Frogger can lose themselves in the Arcade’s collection.
If you were at an-home gamer, The Console Living Room has replicas of games built for Atari, Magnavox, Amstrad, Sega, and other home consoles. As The Verge reports, “The Internet Arcade is the culmination of some impressive coding effort by Jason Scott and the entire team behind the multi-platform JSMESS (JavaScript Mess) emulator. The result is something to behold — sure, not every game is easy to play with a keyboard, and bugs abound, but the breadth of the project is simply stunning. There are no glossy instruction manuals, so you’ll need to figure some things out on your own. The basics are simple. though: press 5 to insert a coin, and press 1 to choose a single player game. Your arrow keys will move you around and the ALT key is typically the action button.”