This one's for you @Lee_Ars https://t.co/PHwtwGgUNM
— Kyle Orland (@KyleOrl) April 30, 2015
Remember the feeling you got the first time you embedded a YouTube video in an external website—how simple and seamless it felt transporting rich multimedia content from one part of the Web to another? The feeling of inserting a fully playable classic game into a humble tweet isn't quite the same, but it's still pretty remarkable for anyone who remembers when these old titles required every bit of power available to a state-of-the-art PC.
The Internet Archive's massive collections of classic games and software, emulated through JSMESS, has actually been fully embeddable in outside webpages since early February. But plenty of people, us included, only seemed to notice this feature in the last day or so. Internet Archive curator Jason Scott even noted a sizeable bump in Web traffic going to the site as word of the feature got around social media in the last 24 hours.
While you can copy iframe code to your personal Web space or blog, Twitter makes it especially easy to embed a game by simply linking to the applicable URL on archive.org. Then you can embed that tweet in a webpage, as we've done above in a transparent attempt to garner the favor of Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson through his favorite classic series. If you're really feeling fancy, you can even embed a tweet that has an embedded copy of DOS running a TRS-80 emulator, which could run any number of games. Hold on one second, I have to go see if my Inception top is still spinning.
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