{"id":236,"date":"2014-11-06T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/06\/the-internet-arcade\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:28:53","slug":"the-internet-arcade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/06\/the-internet-arcade\/","title":{"rendered":"The Internet Arcade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6hGbgBC_GZo\/VFv_g_rPo2I\/AAAAAAAAAkY\/E7x5wWgQUa0\/s1600\/logo_header.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-6hGbgBC_GZo\/VFv_g_rPo2I\/AAAAAAAAAkY\/E7x5wWgQUa0\/s1600\/logo_header.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">For you gamers out there, the Library would like to introduce you to the recently launched <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/internetarcade\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Arcade<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">!&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">The Internet Arcade is an Internet browser-based library of emulated video arcade games from the 1970s up through the 1990s. It has hundreds of games ranging across many different genres that you can play for fun, to study, or to test your eye-keyboard coordination! Before you start, though, I recommend reading<a href=\"http:\/\/ascii.textfiles.com\/archives\/4423\" target=\"_blank\"> this<\/a> blog post by the Internet Arcade operator, Jason Scott, walking you step-by-step through instructions to have a better playing experience.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">The Langsdale Library also has its own <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/langsdale.ubalt.edu\/about-us\/library-services\/game-collection.cfm\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\" target=\"_blank\">Game Collectio<\/a><span style=\"background-color: white;font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\">n for students, researchers and faculty use. Video game conservation is an important part of preserving our cultural heritage, but can be extremely difficult due to copyright issues and software and hardware obsolescence. Read more about this endeavor in the Library of Congress&#8217; 2010 &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideals.illinois.edu\/handle\/2142\/17097\" target=\"_blank\">Preserving Virtual Worlds Final Report<\/a>&#8220;.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For you gamers out there, the Library would like to introduce you to the recently launched Internet Arcade!&nbsp;The Internet Arcade is an Internet browser-based library of emulated video arcade games from the 1970s up through the 1990s. It has hundreds <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2014\/11\/06\/the-internet-arcade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  The Internet Arcade<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,318,317,316,43,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}