Play Updated Retro Arcade Games for Free Courtesy of Microsoft

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Published on Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:00:05 GMT Indexed on 2012/08/31 15:43 UTC
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As part of a promotion for Internet Explorer 10, Microsoft comissioned Atari to update several classic retro games from the arcade and the Atari consoles. Fortunately for those of us looking for a retro gaming fix, you can play the games in any HTML5-enabled browser.

While game play is really smooth on most games there are a few little quirks that using Internet Explorer 10 does take care of. First, if you’re not on IE10, you’ll see a little advertisement before you begin playing each game. Second, some games call on some of the new touch/motion variable functionality built into IE10 for the Windows 8 tablet experience and they’ll stall out when they reach the point in the game they need to call that variable. That said, we played quite a few games without any hiccups at all.

Hit up the link below to play classics like Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Pong, Super Breakout, and more.

Atari IE10 Promo Gallery [Atari]

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