Physical arcades may be dying in America, where they seem relegated to Chuck E. Cheese locations and musky boardwalk venues. It looks like they'll be getting a new lease of life online thanks to the folks at Archive.Org.
Archive.OrgThe Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade.
The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale games containing digitized voices, images and music. Most ga mes are playable in some form, although some are useful more for verification of behavior or programming due to the intensity and requirements of their systems.
The games range from titles like Arkanoid to Xevious. Street Fighter II? They got it. Qbert? *@#$%! Pac-Man? They caught the fever. Halo? No, you dingus, that's not an arcade game.
Go ahead and browse for yourself. The library's quite extensive already, and it's free; all you cheapskates out there can indulge and still give no quarter.