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is possible that those responsible for the Internet Archive have passed the 25th of December to play and only the second post-Christmas Eve day we have remembered to share with other internet users launch the project The Living Room Console (A Room Console). They did so on Thursday, the 26th, with the satisfaction of those who give a Christmas gift late.

A gift that turns into 963. Is this the number of video games that the Internet Archive has just made available online , in order to be played freely. And there are not any 963-game -. Titles are the vanguard of home consoles that, in the 1970s and 1980s, protagonizavam nightmares owners halls arcade industry

The gamers began at that time to stay home with their Atari, Coleco or Astrocade and progressively left to spend coins in antiquated arcades (who does not know what they are can appeal to YouTube and Tron ). . Money began to be spent on consoles and in the myriad of game that every month arrived in stores in cartridges

Some of these video games have become very popular: Space Invaders , Pacman , Mario Bros. and Frogger are titles that recognize three decades later. Are also four of the game that allows Internet Archive now play online through a JSMESS emulator. The use of emulators for this purpose is common on the Internet and, in many cases, illegal. But, according to the BBC, the earliest videogames are a “gray area legally.”

The British television station adds that publishers and developers tend to overlook when they are concerned that video games are no longer in stores, but points out that the authors of these titles may want to return to them due to the booming market for mobile games. The Internet Archive says nothing about copyright.

access is preservation
“cartridges” available to play in browsers more Recent were consistent with five consoles released between 1977 and 1986, Atari 2600 (1977), Philips Videopac G7000 (1978), the ColecoVision (1982), the Astrocade (1983) and ProSystem Atari 7800 (1986). Maybe there are still some of these consoles in the basements of the world (next to the disks of Joy Division or the Ramones), but the truth is that consoles to play vintage has become a privilege of a few of these.

The Internet Archive – digital library that opened “doors” in 1996 and where the surfers go to, for example, to see the progress of your favorite pages – believes that “access leads to preservation.” And that is the reason of background that led to the creation of the project The Living Room Console , which is still in beta. The fun we can provide is a bonus.

Jason Scott stresses the text presentation of the project, “make these vintage game enables immediate comment, educate, entertain and [ create] memory for the history of [the game] part. ” The archivist promises so more titles to the newly created collection

With almost a thousand titles in short supply should not be -. Least anytime soon – a complaint of those who access the “console room “. The regret that we can anticipate at this early stage is the lack of sound in video games. But Jason Scott point, in the same text, that this problem will be solved soon.