Who would not like to play those classic Atari games evoking sense of nostalgia and fun? Well now those arcade games can be played online and for free!
Atari and Microsoft teamed together and to launch Atari Arcade where you can play eight classic video games HTML5-enabled browsers.
The games include: Asteroids, Centipede, Combat, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Yars' Revenge, Pong, and Super Breakout.
These games can support touch and can be played in tablets too; you can now challenge your friend for an online game. As of now, Atari has added eight games but overtime it will eventually be adding many more game titles in the library.
The games that are available now are all free to play.
The arcade games work in any modern web browser though Internet Explorer is preferable and if you visit the site with another browser then you will be seeing advertisements, said PC Magazine.
"If you run it on 17-inch screen or 7-inch screen you get a great experience, and the same code works on both," said Ryan Gavin, general manager of Internet Explorer, told PC Magazine.
"The web can be far richer, more engaging, and have a more app-like experience than it does today," said Gavin.
The Atari Arcade has the ability to detect device's battery power and even adjusts between 3D and 2D.
Controls for the game can be either through mouse, Keyboard, or fingers.
Atari released this portal to celebrate its 40 anniversary since its launch in 1972.
Atari Arcade games have smaller file size, close to 2MB that will take less time to load and gives better performance.
Apart from this, Atari and Microsoft released tools suite so that developers can create their own games on HTML5 platform, which consists of software development kit, JavaScript libraries, tutorials, and actual source code samples. Such developers can submit their games that will be up fo evaluation by the Atari team and might be included in the Arcade. Atari will share the revenues with the developers, said PC Magazine.
Gavin also said that the game was in development for several months and they intended to keep the simplicity intact while presenting them in a new way, and Microsoft wanted to showcase its possibilities.
