MS-DOS Gaming Gives Twitter a Reason to Exist at Last
‘Twitter is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever,’ quoth Destructoid, bringing us this story. How do you argue with that? You don’t, that’s how.
That lil’ blue bird, after all, is responsible for bringing hashtags into the world. It also provided a platform for Justin Bieber to tell the general populace that he had a burrito for lunch, and earn himself a billion retweets and favorites for doing so. As though the little asshole’s head wasn’t inflated enough.
But on the flipside, Twitter is also a way to instantly share the Internet’s vast repertoire of MS-DOS games with the world. And that’s something I can get on board with.
Oh yes indeed. Via the magic of the Internet Archive, you can now play all manner of retrotastic directly in Twitter, simply by embedding the game’s link in a Tweet. It’s very cool, and very dangerous. Like all social media, the site was already a procrastinator’s dream, but this is some next level shit right here.
Check out this awesome new function in action over at Gamasutra. Legally questionable it may be, but damn if this isn’t brilliant.