Yours portly has been playing excessive amounts of Colonization lately (my latest game, as the Dutch, ended in disaster when my New York-based colonies fell to the Stadtholder’s forces in a doomed war of independence), and writing about and thinking about old games has sent me down a rabbit hole. Regular reader and contributor Ponty got me searching down an old Lord of the Rings game; while I didn’t find it, I did find RetroGames.cz.
RetroGames.cz bills itself as the “ONLINE Museum of Old Video Games,” and the designation is apt. According to the website, its goal is “to keep alive the games of the 1980s and 1990s, which were created for consoles and systems that can no longer be purchased and are no longer supported by its developers and manufacturers.” It does so through the emulation of games, which can be played directly in your browser.