What better way than to go back in time to play old games on a statutory holiday? How about playing these games in the modern world, with the sole aim to combine the old and the new?
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Earlier this year, it was reported that with the Internet Archive , thousands of old DOS game were now free playable from your browser. A brief look at the library on the platform reveals classic games like Prince of Persia, SimCity, Metal Gear and many more ...
Now it turns out that all MS-DOS game in the library can be easily integrated in a tweet. It is quite possible that this feature has been that the library has appeared, but it was apparently unknown until to it being discovered by Chris Kohler of Wired.
Thank you cards the Twitter!
The incorporation of a game in your tweet could not be simpler . Just check the archives for the game of your choice, copy the link and paste it into a tweet. There, that's it!
This is possible thanks to the platform of Twitter cards , which can attach pictures, videos, and other rich media in tweets. So far, this feature has been used primarily to share videos and photos from Instagram and Vine, and it is unlikely that the MS-DOS games are what the developers had in mind when the created.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the work of Jason Scott, who is the man responsible for making the archives of the 2400 MS-DOS games in the library.
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Earlier this year, it was reported that with the Internet Archive , thousands of old DOS game were now free playable from your browser. A brief look at the library on the platform reveals classic games like Prince of Persia, SimCity, Metal Gear and many more ...
Thank you cards the Twitter!
The incorporation of a game in your tweet could not be simpler . Just check the archives for the game of your choice, copy the link and paste it into a tweet. There, that's it!
This is possible thanks to the platform of Twitter cards , which can attach pictures, videos, and other rich media in tweets. So far, this feature has been used primarily to share videos and photos from Instagram and Vine, and it is unlikely that the MS-DOS games are what the developers had in mind when the created.
Of course, none of this would be possible without the work of Jason Scott, who is the man responsible for making the archives of the 2400 MS-DOS games in the library.