Atari Coin-ops Free to Play Online

[JeffVav]

Hi everyone, thought you might be interested to know that Atari's got six classic games on their revamped web site: Asteroids, Battlezone, Crystal Castles, Lunar Lander, and the Atari 2600 Adventure and Yars' Revenge. All emulated, too! Plus online score boards. Just needs Flash 10. The games can be found here: Atari Video Games.

Edited November 8, 2009 by JeffVav

[mos6507]

In the past this stuff would have required Shockwave and a compiled Xtra like the old Midway games that Digital Eclipse did, or Java applets like the old games.com site.

 

Flash has come a LONG way to be able to pull these off so well.

 

If Flash can't run compiled binaries then these are technically ports, though.

 

Here is the link describing the technology. However it's being done, it's impressive.

Edited November 9, 2009 by mos6507

[Bountybob]

Asteroids as hard as ever Managed to rack up 20000 points ha

[JeffVav]

If Flash can't run compiled binaries then these are technically ports, though.

 

It's an emulator, not a port. Original ROMs are in there.

[Mingy Jongo]

I really like the job whoever did the ports did. Great emulation, awesome scoreboard (or in Adventure's case, timeboard) integration, and even small details are recreated (like how the player 1 and 2 buttons light up on Asteroids and Crystal Castles). Bravo!

[[d2f]Iggy*SJB]

Having problems with it on Win7.

[JeffVav]

Iggy*SJB' date='Tue Dec 1, 2009 8:56 PM' timestamp='1259718975' post='1888515']

Having problems with it on Win7.

 

What kind of problems? Only problem I'm aware of is that the resume feature can freeze due to certain ad blockers.