Internet Archive digitized a pack of old school games from portable consoles

The guys with   portal Internet Archive began to rescue known portable games of the past like Pac-Man and   Donkey Kong, which in   time went out on   rare portable set-top boxes like the Gakken Super Puck Monster.

Why it's cool

To save portable games from   non-existence, the activists of the Internet Archive had to be confused. First , find the consoles themselves. Secondly , port and   digitize games. Secondly , digitize the game. As activist Jason Scott says, in   In most cases, information was not obtained   breaking the gadget, but   at   In some cases it was necessary to disassemble the console and   separate the screen from   PCB to understand which of the   them for   which is responsible for outputting the image to   screen. In general, all this is not so much to play as to preserve history.

What happened in   the end

On   output turned out about 60 rare games, play in   which can be directly in   browser. TO   For example, there is a portable version of Battletoads, the earliest Mortal Kombat that came out for arcade machines or the unbearable Skeleton Warriors. Naturally, most of them look pretty strange today, but that's the beauty, right? The digitized collection of Handheld History Collection is based on   link .

Source: The Verge