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Play Updated Retro Arcade Games for Free Courtesy of Microsoft
As part of a promotion for Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft comissioned Atari to update several classic retro games from the arcade and the Atari consoles. Fortunately for those of us looking for a retro gaming fix, you can play the games in any HTML5-enabled browser.
While game play is really smooth on most games there are a few little quirks that using Internet Explorer 10 does take care of. First, if you’re not on IE10, you’ll see a little advertisement before you begin playing each game. Second, some games call on some of the new touch/motion variable functionality built into IE10 for the Windows 8 tablet experience and they’ll stall out when they reach the point in the game they need to call that variable. That said, we played quite a few games without any hiccups at all.
Hit up the link below to play classics like Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Pong, Super Breakout, and more.
Atari IE10 Promo Gallery [Atari]
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Jason Fitzpatrick is warranty-voiding DIYer and all around geek. When he's not documenting mods and hacks he's doing his best to make sure a generation of college students graduate knowing they should put their pants on one leg at a time and go on to greatness, just like Bruce Dickinson. You can follow him on Google+ if you'd like.
- Published 08/31/12
Irony- Atari commissioned Steve Jobs to design a prototype for Breakout in 1975. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#History_and_development
unbelievable.. !!! even after all this while.. classics are .. and always will be classic!
They’re supposed to be HTML5, right? Why does it tell me I need flash?