{"id":76022,"date":"2014-11-03T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=76022"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:22:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:22:59","slug":"over-900-classic-arcade-games-are-now-available-from-the-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/over-900-classic-arcade-games-are-now-available-from-the-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 900 classic arcade games are now available from The Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Internet Archive<\/strong> is dedicated to ensuring that we don&#8217;t lose all of our internet heritage, keeping copies of websites and much more, that has long since ceased to exist. Now, the organization has added over 900 classic arcade games that can be emulated and played free in your browser.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet Archive says that not all of the games are playable though &#8211; they are straight emulations, and may not work with your PC controls. However, many of them work well, and there is support for gamepads if you have one connected.<\/p>\n<p>The downside of The Internet Archive&#8217;s arcade collection is speed. You may find the site slow to load pages, and loading games can also take a very long time. Still, there are some big name titles in there, like <strong>Arkanoid<\/strong>, <strong>Street Fighter 2<\/strong> and <strong>OutRun<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla-firefox.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firefox<\/a> is the recommended browser for these arcade games, but others will work (though, for example, we found some games ran slower in Chrome).<\/p>\n<p>Another way to check out old arcade games is using the <a href=\"http:\/\/mameui.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MAME emulator<\/a>, which you can download here.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Angry Birds Transformers out now on iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/angry-birds-transformers-out-now-on-ios\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Angry Birds Transformers out now on iOS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"This weekend's gaming: Fruit Ninja 2.0 out now\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/this-weekends-gaming-fruit-ninja-2-0-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This weekend&#8217;s gaming: Fruit Ninja 2.0 out now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Gameloft ruins Asphalt Overdrive by turning it into a free-to-play endless runner\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/gameloft-asphalt-overdrive-android-ios-windows\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gameloft ruins Asphalt Overdrive by turning it into a free-to-play endless runner<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow Jonathan on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanriggall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@jonathanriggall<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Archive is dedicated to ensuring that we don&#8217;t lose all of our internet heritage, keeping copies of websites and much more, that has long since ceased to exist. Now, the organization has added over 900 classic arcade games that can be emulated and played free in your browser. The Internet Archive says that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/over-900-classic-arcade-games-are-now-available-from-the-internet-archive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Over 900 classic arcade games are now available from The Internet Archive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-76022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329895,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022\/revisions\/329895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=76022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}