The Internet Archive has launched The Internet Arcade, a collection of classic arcade games playable directly through modern web browsers.
The Arcade contains nearly 900 games, all of which are playable through a JavaScript Mess-based emulator that runs in the browser. Most of the games run fine on modern computers, but a few ones suffer from graphics distortion or input-mapping problems.
"Obviously, a lot of people are going to migrate to games they recognize and ones that they may not have played in years. They’ll do a few rounds, probably get their asses kicked, smile, and go back to their news sites," JSMESS creator, Jason Scott, pondered.
A few more, I hope, will go towards games they’ve never heard of, with rules they have to suss out, and maybe more people will play some of these arcades in the coming months than the games ever saw in their "real" lifetimes."
