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Unlimited Free Lives! 900 Classic Arcade Games Resurrected Online

Experience the joy of Internet Arcade classic video games from the 70s to the 90s with 900 free titles at your fingertips.

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Your Monday blues are about to be vanquished with a button-mashing trip down memory lane. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit organization that creates back-ups of every page of the Internet, has branched out on a new endeavor: the Internet Arcade. They’ve added a collection of 900 classic arcade video games from the 1970s through the 1990s, and you can play them all for free on your web browser.

Classics like Frogger and Pac Manare begging you to squander hours of productivity as you relive the triumph of setting a new high score on

Galaga.

In addition to more popular titles, the collection also includes a boatload of obscure games that harken back to the “bronze age” of videogames (they’re literally in black and white). The man behind the project, Jason Scott, said he hopes a small percentage of people will use the games collection in research, writing or remixing the ...

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