Atari is one of the most large, historic and famous names in the computer video game sector. Those born in the early 70s may have played with the Atari 2600 and know those great classics that made the history of videogames: River Raid, Frogger, Pong, Pitfall, Arkanoid.
Old fans of Atari games and even those who have never heard of it and have become accustomed to playing Call Of Duty or GTA, can have fun in the new Atari online games portal used by Microsoft to promote Internet Explorer 10 in touchscreen computers.
The games of the Atari site also work with other browsers of course.
The games have all been redone by Atari Games to demonstrate the potential of HTML5.
On the Atari Arcade site you can register to play multiplayer games online or you can play against the computer.
The selectable games are:
- Combat : a game where you drive a tank against other tanks by shooting at it, trying not to get destroyed.
- Lunar Lander : the space probe must be landed in the right place.
- Missile Command : game where with the missiles fired from below you have to hit the bombs before they fall to the ground.
- Pong : the great classic and first game in history where you have to score against your opponent by bouncing the ball.
- Super Breakout is a version of Arkanoid, the well-known game where you have to destroy the bricks with a ball.
- Yars Revenge : spaceship game
- Asteroids : a spaceship in the center, shoot the asteroids until they are cut into a thousand pieces.
- Centipede where a magician must shoot a centipede before it comes to meet (similar to Space Invaders).
All games can be played alone, with the scores being stored in order to compose a general world ranking.
Some games like Missile Command can also be played in multiplayer mode against other players for an online game which, in some cases like in Pong, can be really addicting.
The games are all online, load on the browser and must be played with the keyboard: WASD to move and the space bar to shoot.
The Atari games, even if they are the same as 30 years ago, are equipped with modern graphics and are a lot of fun for quick games, to see who makes the maximum score or for challenges against friends.
I remember that, in another article, the sites where you can play old pc games, 80s / 90s and arcades are mentioned
