You can now play tons of old school games right inside tweets

You can now play tons of old school games right inside tweets

Twitter users now have the ability to embed fully playable old school PC games from within tweets.

It’s a feature specific to the massive library of classic video games that were added to the Internet Archive toward the end of 2014. Just jump into the game of your choice, copy and paste the URL into a tweet, and post it. The URL automatically transforms into an embed window that anyone can click and play.

So strange to see Zaxxon now. I remember playing this way back and thinking it had the sweetest graphics ever. https://t.co/M5olRJ2ZUt

— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) April 30, 2015

This is so cool. In the ’80s, I needed a machine that took up a whole desk to run this. Now it’s inside Twitter. https://t.co/dKfnM2eJbH

— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) April 30, 2015

I can’t decide if playing the GOD AWFUL Tongue of the Fatman in a Twitter embed makes it better or worse. https://t.co/n4oW8S6w2I

— Adam Rosenberg (@geminibros) April 30, 2015

Neat, right? It’s not the ideal way to play most of these games given the pint-sized embed window, but it’s hard to beat the “cool” factor of playing Maniac Mansion inside your Twitter feed (and sharing it with all your followers).

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