Twitter becomes the newest video games format

Update:

Sadly Twitter has decided that playing games via a tweet is against it’s terms and conditions and disabled the feature. You can still play the games in your browser by clicking the links, but obviously that’s not nearly as fun…

Original story:


Boring tweets are about to become a thing of the past as a new archive of old MS-DOS games lets you embed whole games.

Photos and videos of startled cats are old news, if you really want people to pay attention to your Twitter antics then why not use an old PC game from the ’90s?



You can pick from a choice of 2,604 games on the Internet Archive, some of which are indie games nobody’s ever heard of but others, such as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom II, and Elite, are all-time classics.

Playing Doom II via a tweet. Truly the future is now: https://t.co/6QZU9pKbe4 — David Jenkins (@DJGameCentral) April 30, 2015

The legality of the archive doesn’t seem to be being questioned by most publishers, so we assume they consider the games as abandonware. Although anything that’s missing is probably down to lawyers rather than them being forgotten.

To add a game to your tweet simply visit the archive here and add the URL at the top of the browser, just as if you were adding an ordinary link.

Prince Of Persia: Twitter Edition is just how you remember it: https://t.co/DdMRfVWUYx — David Jenkins (@DJGameCentral) April 30, 2015

There’s a bit of a pause as the data is loaded in, and the speed the game runs at will depend on your device, and possibly what browser you’re using, but it all seems to work remarkably well.

It’s not exactly jetpacks and flying cars, but as proof we’re living in the future it’ll do for now.

This is the last one. Especially as I don't remember Elite looking this bad on the PC. Where's the Amiga version? https://t.co/OwqJPEuusr — David Jenkins (@DJGameCentral) April 30, 2015

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