14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft announced in late August that it has teamed up with Atari to allow users to play classic Atari games right in their browser, with no other software tweaks.
The company however calls for gamers to play the games at a one-off event “with live DJ sets at the pop-up Atari Arcade in Shoreditch.”
The event will take place on October 12 and all you have to do is to tweet about it and hope that you’ll be chosen to attend the gaming marathon.
Microsoft and Atari joined forces in August to launch a dedicated website that allows Internet Explorer users to play classic games such as Mission Command, Pong, Super Breakout and Asteroids.
Although the company said that a HTML5 browser is needed to load the games, most browsers are now working on the site, but we still noticed some minor slowdowns on Mozilla Firefox 15.
The website was initially aimed at Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 users, but given the fact that so many people love the classic Atari games, all of them are now accessible for older platforms too.
“Atari Arcade is just the beginning of a new class of touch-first web experiences powered by IE10 and Win8,” Ryan Gavin, general manager Internet Explorer, said in August.
“For developers, the team has created an opportunity to build your own games for the Atari Arcade platform. An Atari software development kit is available in the developer behind the scenes section of the site, along with new and updated versions of JavaScript libraries (Create.js, Easel.js, Sound.js) and new tutorials for building HTML5 games.”