File photo: The first recovered Atari cartridge and packaging recovered from the old Alamogordo landfill are shown in Alamogordo, New Mexico, April 26, 2014. (REUTERS/Mark Wilson)
Some of the best video games ever were made ages ago. Super Metroid, Planescape: Torment, Deus Ex, and hundreds of other amazing games were produced for platforms that don’t really exist anymore. They were made for systems that used cartridges and PCs that ran Windows 95. Some have aged well and some haven’t, but they’ve all made their mark on video game history.
Unfortunately, you can’t easily play them in their original forms on current systems. Consoles stopped using cartridges many moons ago, and what worked on Pentium-era Windows 95 PCs baffle Core i7-era Windows 10 machines. Add an unsettling trend of dismissiveness in archiving classic games and you run into the very real risk that some of the best video games ever will some day be lost, or remain just out of reach.
Fortunately, you have options. Whether they’re old PC games or old console games, you can probably find at least some way to play them.
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