Some 900 classic arcade games are now available for you to play. All you need is a Web browser, so if you’re reading this, you’re probably good to go. All you need is a Web browser, so if you’re reading this, you’re probably good to go. Play Classic Arcade Games in your browser for free with ArcadeTab. Some 900 classic arcade games are now available for you to play. All you need is a web browser, so if you’re reading this, you’re probably good to go.

That really important thing that needs doing? Yeah, that’s not going to happen, because we’ve rounded up the finest browser games around, and they’re all free. Many are HTML5-based and need a decent browser (Chrome’s a good bet), and some still need Flash. All are entertaining to the level you’ll set fire to your Xbox and live life entirely inside a browser. Oh, all right, they’re not quite that good, but if you can’t waste an insane number of hours playing these fab games, it must be because you hate fun itself. Additional words by Sam Kieldsen. Button-mashing casual retro shooters abound.

But what makes 10 Bullets special is the paucity of ammunition. You have just ten projectiles to take down as many spacecraft as possible. The trick is to time shots so debris from ships you destroy causes chain reactions. Scooter Help Serial Numbers. With careful timing, you can obliterate entire fleets of nasties with a single bullet.

And because you’re only seldom tapping a key to play, anyone in the office will think you’re mulling over something terribly important. Alter Ego isn’t pretty – visually or in terms of content. This browser-based remake of an ancient PC game deals with progress through everyday life.

It’s as far from The Sims as you can imagine, too – instead of cute little idiots blundering about, you get stark icons and multiple-choice text. But there’s depth, with a clever (if admittedly slightly conservative) script written by a psychologist, which offers branching progress that could lead you to a happy old age or abruptly dying as a toddler, having necked some bleach found under the sink. It’s hard to know what to make of Cookie Clicker. On one hand, it’s essentially a Skinner box, rewarding players with nothing in particular in return for them clicking like crazy. But it also appears to be an amusing satire on the state of modern ‘idle’ gaming.

Initially, you click and you get a cookie. The more cookies you have, the more power-ups you can afford, including cursors that click on your behalf. Eventually, you’re using time machines to bring cookies from the past, “before they were even eaten”, and converting raw light into cookies with giant prisms, to bring in millions of cookies per second. Stuff’s not sure, but currently has 509 billion cookies in a really big plastic box if you fancy one.

You can now play over 900 classic arcade games for free in your browser thanks to the, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that collects web pages, text, audio and other information that exists in digital formats. Dig Dug, Galaga, and Golden Axe are just a fraction of the great, though admittedly ancient games you'll find at the. They all make use of JSMESS, a program that emulates old computers like the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, and hundreds more in Javascript. This weekend, programmer Jason Scott revealed that he modified the program to support hundreds of arcade games. 'Of the roughly 900 arcade games (yes, nine hundred arcade games) up there, some are in pretty weird shape – vector games are an issue, scaling is broken for some, and some have control mechanisms that are just not going to translate to a keyboard or even a joypad,' Scott. 'But damn if so many are good enough.