Goodbye weekend plans: Internet Archive now lets you play 900 classic arcade games

Cancel whatever plans you had for the rest of today.

The Internet Archive, a non-profit best known for backing up web pages, has added a collection of 900 video games from the 1970s to 1990s that can be played in your web browser — no coins required.

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Called the Internet Arcade, the collection includes familiar games such as Astro Invader and Pac Man, as well as more obscure titles from that era. Most of the games include detailed background histories and links to play in the browser

"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," according to the site's description. "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." Read more...

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