The productivity of the entirety of the United States workforce is about to suffer thanks to the Internet Archive. The people at The Internet Archive have put together an amazing online arcade that allows visitors to play over 900 classic arcade games from your browser.
Never has it been so easy to waste so much time on the internet. Sure, you could go out and download MAME (legality of rom issues aside) and find every individual game you want, but that takes time, time you could be using playing mother fucking BurgerTime!
Not every single games runs perfectly, but there is no doubt that you will find at least a dozen or so games that will have you coming back for more.
Here is what the archive is all about:
The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.
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 ga mes 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.
Many games have a “boot-up” sequence when first turned on, where the systems run through a check and analysis, making sure all systems are go. In some cases, odd controllers make proper playing of the systems on a keyboard or joypad a pale imitation of the original experience. Please report any issues to the Internet Arcade Operator, Jason Scott.
You can get you game on here: [The Internet Arcade]
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