Last week’s news that almost two and a half thousand MS-DOS computer games have been added to the Internet Archive, a free online library of books, music, movies, and software, was met with widespread delight. Over the years, the archive has rescued historical gems and curios that, unless one happened to own the original hardware on which to run them, were often impossible to play. The latest release holds many treasures of the eighties and nineties, including Wolfenstein 3D, which was programmed by a young John Carmack, now the pioneer of the Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset; Fahrenheit 451, a floppy-disk adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel; Emmanuelle, a mildly pornographic game centered around the seduction of a married Frenchwoman in Brazil, based on a character created by the novelist Marayat Rollet-Andriane; and, of course, The Oregon Trail, that nineteenth-century settler-themed epic of oxen and cholera and unfordable rivers. (There are also less worthwhile artifacts, like Dragon’s Lair, a travesty of Disney-fied style over substance.)
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