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Over 1,100 New Arcade Games Added To the Internet Archive (archive.org)
Jason Scott, writing for Internet Archive blog: The Internet Arcade, our collection of working arcade machines that run in the browser, has gotten a new upgrade in its 4th year. Advancements by both the MAME emulator team and the Emscripten conversion process allowed our team to go through many more potential arcade machines and add them to the site. The majority of these newly-available games date to the 1990s and early 2000s, as arcade machines both became significantly more complicated and graphically rich, while also suffering from the ever-present and home-based video game consoles that would come to dominate gaming to the present day. Even fervent gamers might have missed some of these arcade machines when they were in the physical world, due to lower distribution numbers and shorter times on the floor.
and should be fully funded as part of the Smithsonian or Library of Congress.
The vast majority of games available will be unlicensed commercial games. In a time where many rom sites have been shut down why is archive.org exempted from this? Is it because right holders are more lenient about arcade games?
Because Nintendo still pretends to sell its games, but most aren't suing to shut down people keeping these old gems going.
Meanwhile Scumbag Wikimedia Foundation would delete them as "not notable".
"He who lives in the past, does not get laid tonight." LOL
Most importantly, do they have Battletoads?
Why, yes, they do.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I find this entry interesting, as the more well known game Zuma basically took this idea and made a PC version with the core game mechanics, and many reviews, not knowing Puzz loop called it original.
Note: It looks like only Puzz loop 2 is uploaded.
Nope. With his previous comment, it made me read it as "steroids".
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This removes any reason I had to leave my basement. Woohoo!
"lend" ... data ...
Seriously... what level of drugs does one have to be on, to achieve mental contortions and delusional ignorance of that level?
They KNOW that information is always *copied*, and the concepts of "lending" "owning" or "selling" make no sense whatsoever in the context of informationspace. Their own licenses exist precisely because of this fact. Yet publicly, they act like it’s a law of nature. Which means what we already knew: Nobody *ever* reads any of their licenses, let alone understands them.
["they": cokeheaded media Mafia]
Descriptions of Polybius closely resemble the gameplay of Gyruss. It's not included in this particular collection, but you can find it elsewhere if you arrr interested.
how video games were little more than a contrivance to separate money from stupid children, one quarter (or two) at a time.
Internet Archive is a legally recognised library. They are exempt from copyright.
I hope there is a way to compensate those copyright owners who still wish to receive a royalty.. I don't know if Internet Archive has already made arrangements? Maybe one way would be to have a donate button to provide for a compensation fund? I'd click it for asteroids. I'd click it twice for omega race.
Lighten up, buttercup
They're not exempt from copyright, but special copyright rules apply to them.
They are allowed to make copies of materials they own, for example, to aid the visually- or audio-impaired, but they can't just distribute copies willy-nilly.