50 retro games that will destroy your productivity forever

On May 21, 2010 Google turned its logo into a PAC-MAN screen to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the come Cocos. That Friday, millions of people saw how the homepage of their browser became a sensual recreational machine that worked without coins. It was impossible to say no. Search engine users spent 500 million hours playing. The distraction caused by this 'doodle' reduced productivity in offices around the world and is estimated to have caused losses of about 100 million euros globally.

If that Google tribute cost a hundred million, what Archive.org has done a few weeks ago has power to destroy capitalism. This website dedicated to preserving the culture in digital format has just opened The Internet Arcade , a library that contains 900 classic recreational games that you can play for free in your browser. In addition, the web also has a good handful of classic console games like Atari 2600, Game Gear or Mega Drive.
The immediate and unadulterated fun that retro video games offer is irresistible.

The founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell, said that video games should be "easy to understand and difficult to master", and it is true that this formula converts the eighties arcade classics into highly addictive titles. Here we leave you a selection of 50 games so that the working hours of this Monday pass much faster. It's not for giving ideas, but you can also bookmark this page and come back when you need it.

(Wait a minute, why is this here? Why is it free?)

Archive.org is a non-profit organization that has been trying to build a huge library on the Internet since 1996 by making books, sounds, videos, websites and software available to anyone and for free. With The Internet Arcade they try to offer and preserve hundreds of recreational machine games that .