Blast from the Past: Play Those Beloved Atari Classics at "Atari Arcade"

Atari Arcade Brings New Life to Old Classics

By prawn1 November 25th, 2009

I can just feel the joy of Atari fans going apoplectic. A pioneer in arcades games, Atari has recently revamped its website and added a new section with with a handful of their classic games for you to play (for free) in your web browser. And yes, they have included the beloved Asteroids and Lunar Lander. Along with each faithful recreation, a online leaderboard allows you to submit your scores.

The fun begins at Atari Arcade.

[via Destructoid]

Bonus: Another old favourite, Quake is also playable in your web browser.

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12 Comments

easy (Reply) on November 25th, 2009
sweeeeeeet!!!
and the quake link has just made my day…
o damn websense, there goes my skiving at work ;(
prawn1 (Reply) on November 25th, 2009
Farging Websense
Have you tried using a web-based proxy site to get to the content you want?
- easy (Reply) on November 25th, 2009
  it was the first thing i tried, but all the ones i know of are blocked.
  it’s no biggy… just royal pain in the cushion
  - prawn1 (Reply) on November 25th, 2009
    Aaah I see. TechFAQ has a list of proxies you could try.
    - easy (Reply) on November 25th, 2009
      lol… just as i’m moaning about websense, it goes down or it’s been disabled. free reign on the internet
      thanks for the link, these will no doubt come in handy later
    - Mo! (Reply) on November 26th, 2009
      TechFaq is also blocked…. any other ideas?
      - prawn1 on November 26th, 2009
        Is Hide My Ass blocked too?
        What you could try is to use the IP address of the site rather than its name.
      - easy on November 26th, 2009
        it was working yesterday and now is blocked… and hidemyass is also blocked.
        these guys work quick
prawn1 (Reply) on November 26th, 2009
Dang, they really are intent on making you work. The horrible, horrible bastards.
I wonder if TOR would help?
- easy (Reply) on November 26th, 2009
  bastards bastards indeed
  shot for the links though
Macross (Reply) on November 26th, 2009
Lovely find. memories…..like the corners of my mind…
viisiix (Reply) on November 27th, 2009
“it was working yesterday and now is blocked… and hidemyass is also blocked.
these guys work quick”
I would say they monitor DNS traffic and probably have an alert for “New URLs” if they ban sites as you find them.
If they are using the hosted solution from Websense you might be able to bypass it if you can change your local machine’s DNS settings to point to say opendns: 208.67.222.222 & 208.67.220.220
Hehe, Interestingly enough, I blocked gambling and porn sites on my work network and got shat out by the CEO and other managers because they couldn’t place bets on games and view the filthy links their friends send them….