The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library, has upped its gaming pages to include over 900 classic '80s video games.

Now you can waste valuable work time playing Frogger, Galaga and Pac Man.

The new Internet Arcade collection includes "most every major machine" released between 1976 and 1988, said an announcement on the Internet Archive website. The emulator resurrects old favorites such as Galaga, Street Fighter II and, of course, Frogger, and saves you the quarter per play -- and a trip to a trendy arcade-themed dive bar.

Just a heads up, once you activate the game, push 5 to drop in a quarter, and then 1 or 2 to indicated the number of players. Your controller will be the arrow keys.

The Internet Archive "quietly announced" the Arcade launch over the weekend and was quickly hit with a deluge of hundreds of thousands of nostalgic players eager to to try to beat (or even approach) their old high scores. The site crashed temporarily, but was soon up and running again. Gaming fans might call that using an extra life.

The library added its first video game section, Console Living Room, last year emulating the games of more than a dozen console systems including Atari, ColecoVision and Sega Genesis.

So why are you still sitting there? Go, play!

 

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