Author: Eric Ravenscraft / Source: reviewgeek.com
Before the Switch, before the PS Vita, and yet some time after the advent of the Game Boy, stores carried a slew of handheld games–not consoles, individual games–featuring titles from Mortal Kombat and Batman Forever to Simon and Tamagotchi. Now you can play them all in your browser.
The non-profit Internet Archive is perhaps best known for its Wayback Machine that takes snap shots of web sites so you can see what they looked like in the past. However, it also has a robust side project where it emulates and uploads old, outdated games that aren’t being maintained anymore. Recently, the organization added a slew of a unique kind of game that’s passed into memory: handheld LCD electronic games.
The games–like Mortal Kombat, depicted above–used special LCD screens with preset patterns. They could only display the exact…
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