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IF YOU NEVER heard of the Internet Archive before now, but remember PC gaming in the late 80s or early 90s, you may want to sit up and take notice.
The organisation, which archives classic books, movies, software, music and more, has made almost 2,400 MS-DOS games available to play online. The catalogue includes classic games like Prince of Persia, Lemmings 2 – The Tribes, Commander Keen, and Manic Mansion.
The browser-based emulator is still very much in beta so there are a few bugs here and there (garbled sound for Prince of Persia would be one), but the way the emulator sets up is similar to how it did it all those years ago.
It should be noted that no controls for any of the games is provided so you will have to go by memory or figure them out on your own. But once you do, you can relive those memories all over again.
Should that not be to your liking, the Internet Archive also has a collection of classic Atari and Arcade games available for you to play online as well.
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Well that’s 2015 taken care of : )
And I was so close to starting the ironing this week.
Ah shite, won’t see my husband tonight now
Hi Jennie…..
The Red Baron/Sopwith how many hours passed so pointlessly entertainingly!?!
Is “Elite” on there…?
That game burned up many of my childhood evenings…
I have an old Amstrad 6128+ with colour monitor that I got in 89 or 90 I think, but must fix the drive belt. Been meaning to fix it for the last 10 years and I think this will be the year!
Batman The Movie on Amstrad CPC 6128: http://youtu.be/bsHl46FFRJQ
Are you the same Art Van guy from boards.ie?
Never was on boards.ie Graham…Cén fáth?
Ah yes had one of those, hard to believe that there were computers without hard discs.
You don’t still have the original controller , do you?!
I suppose you don’t still have the original controller , Dave?!
Who else taught prince of persia was a mule hard game?
I finished it. It took months!
I kinda fancied the prince. He was so plucky and enthusiastic. Somebody fetch the smelling salts.
Lemmings!! I remember loving the music in lemmings as a child.
cd\princemegahits
Best news ever!
There goes my productivity.
Day of the Tentacle. One of my all time favourites.
Loved lemmings and prince of Persia. But those graphics :(
Appreciate the substance.
Loved Dizzy the egg, dangerous Dave and prince of Persia.
Mind you the graphics and music left a lot to be desired.
Happy days :)
Alley Cat- I’m determined to beat those Sleeping Dogs
There is already the option of downloading an emulator(all free), I think the amstrad one is called WinApe.
Best news story of 2015 so far!
Is Dizzy the Egg included? Oh please…please…please make it so!
Great Stuff… Hopefully they have ‘Gauntlet’. Absolute classic on the C64
Better go hunt for a joystick to make the most of the memories flooding back!
Paulie Python is on there!!! Well, there’s me going to work tomorrow with panda eyes.
Prince of Persia happy days was sum hard game to play especially with the Amiga 500 :)
If Sid Meier’s Civilisation is on there that’s the weekend sorted…
Prince of Persia, I feel like I spent literally years of my life playing that 1 game. Absolutely loved it.
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