The Internet Archive is turning into one heck of an arcade. After releasing emulators so that you could play hundreds of Atari and arcade games right in your browser, the site has made its gaming library even more expansive: starting now you can play close to 2,400 MS-DOS games without paying one thin dime.
The new browser-based emulator is still in beta, so you might experience a few bugs and crashes (that was pretty much par for the course with a lot of early MS-DOS based games anyway, so enthusiasts should feel right at home), but it includes a huge range of classics. That includes the likes of id Software's "Commander Keen," the apocalyptic RPG "Wasteland," the original "Prince of Persia," early FPS games like "Wolfenstein 3D" and many more. There's even "Mario Teaches Typing"...and who doesn't need a Mario-themed typing game in their life?
As with past releases from the Archive, there are no instructions for how to play each game, so you'll need to do a bit of experimenting...but that's all part of the fun.
Check out all of the games right here. Thanks to The Washington Post for the heads up.
