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    Default The Internet Arcade (web.archive.org)

    Sorry if this was covered before and I missed it but wow.
    https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

    It appears various license holders have allowed the interenet wayback machine people at achive.org to setup an internet arcade archive of machines where you can play the games right in your web browser. There's over 135 games up there currently, not sure how this was all setup but it appears to have went up over the summer and it has cames from many major developers too.

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    I'm surprised to see Stargate with its original name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tanooki View Post
    Sorry if this was covered before and I missed it but wow.
    https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

    It appears various license holders have allowed the interenet wayback machine people at achive.org to setup an internet arcade archive of machines where you can play the games right in your web browser. There's over 135 games up there currently, not sure how this was all setup but it appears to have went up over the summer and it has cames from many major developers too.
    Pretty sure they did this without permission. At least, I don't see any evidence that any of these games were properly licensed.

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    They wouldn't be the first to do so sans license, but this is the first "reputable" website to do so.
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    It's not exactly new for archive.org to toss up things they had no rights to toss up and then have to pull it later.
    Last edited by JSoup; 12-10-2014 at 05:51 AM.

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    Didn't archive.org also once host a very big mame rom collection in a 40gig torrent?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edmond Dantes View Post
    Didn't archive.org also once host a very big mame rom collection in a 40gig torrent?
    Among other things, yeah.

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