The ULTIMATE Time Sap - 900 of your favorite Arcade Games

by Kurt
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The Internet Archive has made over 900 arcade games available for free. You can play them in your browser or download them (I think you can download them all).

I couldn't find a couple of classics, like Asteroids and Space Invaders, but there's lots of old favorites listed.

Check them out here:

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
  • Profile picture of the author ForumGuru
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    Yeah, Engadget ran that story this morning. Sweet.

    Defender was my old school favorite but Space Invaders, Asteroids and many others were great as well. I used to have a relatively large working console and game collection but now I am down to:

    Atari 5200 with Joust, Pole Position, Defender, Pacman, Qix and Centepede.
    Playstation 1 with a few dozen games.
    Nintendo 64 and a few games.
    Xbox 360 and almost 300 games.

    I still have lots of Ninetendo, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games but not a working console.

    Nope... I'm not gonna get a PS4 or Xbox One anytime soon. Xbox One is not backwards compatible so I am in no hurry.

    FWIW --> Pitfall, Frogger and hundreds of other titles are part of Archive.org's massive Atari 2600 library.

    https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library

    Asteroids and Tank Command are part of Archive.org's Atari 7800 library.

    https://archive.org/details/atari_7800_library

    Cheers

    -don
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Talk about great timing!

      I'm sitting waiting for the postman to deliver 2 of these this morning!



      ....to do some SNES emulation via my laptop > TV to relive some memories with a friend over a couple of drinks later.

      I wiill surely be playing those arcade classics too! Saves messing around with MAME roms.
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  • Profile picture of the author barbling
    But did they have Cosmic Gorilla?
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  • Profile picture of the author pauljones99
    BRINGS BACK SOME FOND MEMORIES...THX
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