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Here’s How to Play Classic Games Like Oregon Trail on Twitter

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A few months ago, we were excited to report that you could play Oregon Trail and other classic MS-DOS games for free online. Now, you can embed playable versions of those games right in your tweets for your followers to enjoy.

All you need to do is go to the Internet Archive MS-DOS library, click your favorite game and then paste the URL from that page directly into your tweet. (You need to view the tweet in a web browser for the game to work.)

We tested it out, first with Oregon Trail:

Then with Pac-Man:

Head over to the Internet Archive, and let the nostalgia begin.

(h/t Wired)

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