The Internet Arcade - 900 games, in your browser.

henke on 3/11/2014 at 07:13

SO THIS IS A THING: (https://archive.org/details/internetarcade)

Whole buncha games! Golden Axe, Kickstart, Bionic Commando, Street Fighter 2, Toobin! Hell, it even has the original 1981 version of (https://archive.org/details/arcade_thief) Thief, which got a reboot earlier this year! Lots of cool stuff. Play all of it. ALL OF IT!!!!!!!

icemann on 3/11/2014 at 15:58

Very nice :). Even has Dark Reign on there. Hard as hell but a great game.

henke on 3/11/2014 at 17:49

I'm not seeing Dark Reign, just Dark Planet and Dark Warior. Did try out Rastan though. It's the game that, as everyone very helpfully pointed out to me, Völgarr the Viking was based on, and that my childhood had been a complete waste since I had not played. Well you know what? GOOD! I just played it and it SUCKED!

Then I played Crystal Castles, which one of my fave bands took their name from, and it was pretty fucking nuts and not very good.

And lastly I played Buggy Challenge(which should've been the name of the Dark Souls PC port HEY-OOOOO) and didn't like that either.

Basically could someone please play through ALL OF THESE and tell me which ones still hold up today thx.

WingedKagouti on 3/11/2014 at 18:12

Some classics I noticed with a quick glance:

Ghouls and Ghosts, Golden Axe, Out Run, Street Fighter 2, Yie-Ar Kung-Fu and Zaxxon.

Whether they're any good is a matter of taste (and how well implemented the emulation or they are) and nostalgia goggles. Some are very clearly meant to be coin eaters, with lots of "You almost had to know this would happen" enemies and/or traps.

Jason Moyer on 4/11/2014 at 00:13

I dunno how anyone can like Volgarr and dislike Rastan, but you should try Rygar if it's on there as well.

Just browsing that list quickly, I'd say the best game on there, if you haven't played it, is Yie Ar Kung Fu. Absolute classic.

Edit: I don't see a way to get a full, alphabetical list of every available ROM, but there are some hidden gems not on that main index page:

(https://archive.org/details/arcade_mario)
(https://archive.org/details/arcade_apb)

Running in Chrome on a decently fast system they don't seem to emulate well. Oh well.

ZylonBane on 4/11/2014 at 01:02

Quote Posted by Jason Moyer

Just browsing that list quickly, I'd say the best game on there, if you haven't played it, is Yie Ar Kung Fu.

You are weird and wrong in the head.

Jason Moyer on 4/11/2014 at 01:17

Stop trying to hide your love for Krull.

faetal on 5/11/2014 at 16:13

Krull is awesome (if we're talking about the (awesome) film).