enter the Atari arcade

Atari has teamed up with Internet Explorer to bring you the Atari arcade ; a modern take on eight classic atari games built with html5 (no joystick needed). Atari was an early pioneer in the video game industry, in fact, they virtually created the industry with their introduction of the arcade game Pong. The brand name "Atari" was used for many years and applied to several other entities that developed products ranging from arcade video games to home video game consoles to home computers to video games for personal computers. A list of all Atari games released can be found in Wikipedia here. The available games on the arcade are Centipede, Combat, Lunar Lander, Super Breakout, Yars Revenge, Missile Command and of course Asteroids and Pong.

As per the developers : "The Atari Arcade was among the most demanding game development projects because it required full multi-touch, multi-player support across many modern browsers and devices - and we wouldn’t have been able to do it without CreateJS. We’ve rebuilt these games from scratch and we were able to do this project in half the time it would have taken one year ago without these enhancements. There’s no emulation - and everything, from design to code, is completely original in HTML5, CSS3, and JS. It was also a lot of fun." The whole project follows the "rethink the web" initiative sponsored by Microsoft to boost the market penetration of Windows 8 touch platform and Internet Explrer for tables and mobiles. Check out more here. Unfortunately this is also a small issue, since you are prompted to use / download I.E. in order to get an "ad-free experience" (prior to each game start, you have to view an ad).