Here's How To Play More Than 900 Classic Arcade Games Without Spending A Single Quarter
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The internet is an awesome, awesome place.
Case in point: Thanks to the Internet Arcade, you can play more than 900 classic arcade games, right from your browser.
It's part of a larger project, called the Internet Archive, that's aimed at building a library of all the things on the web. The video game section — which also includes console games — is part of the JavaScript Mess (JSMESS) project. Its goal is to emulate a bunch of video game systems to be played in a web browser.
According to the Internet Arcade, "<span>The game collection ranges from early 'bronze-age' video games, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music."</span>
That means you can play the 1982 hit "Joust," Atari's famous "Millipede," or my favorite, "Arkanoid." <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And a bunch of stuff in between.</span>
Some of the pages give you a little history of the game and a description of how to play. Jason Scott, a developer who worked on this portion of the JSMESS project, writes in a blog post that some of the games might be a little buggy.
"<span>Of the roughly 900 arcade games (yes, </span>nine hundred arcade games<span>) up there, some are in pretty weird shape — vector games are an issue, scaling is broken for some, and some have control mechanisms that are just not going to translate to a keyboard or even a joypad," he writes.</span>
And, as TechCrunch points out, some of the controls might be a little wonky: "<span>The 5 key lets you insert a coin; the 1 key is usually the Player 1 start button. Arrows are usually used for directional stuff, with CTRL/ALT/SPACE used for the three primary buttons. Beyond that, you'll have to mash buttons a bit to figure it out (or hit TAB to dive into the key configurations)."</span>
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