Microsoft to bring Atari games to HTML5

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Published onAugust 30, 2012

published onAugust 30, 2012

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Earlier this year, we saw Cut the Rope, Microsoft’s featured IE9 HTML5 game which ran efficiently on Microsoft’s latest browser. Since then, Microsoft has decided to team up with Atari to bring more “modern” versions of the games played in the 70s to your touchscreen and web browser according to The Next Web.According to the report, the games (currently) would be “Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, Combat, Lunar Lander, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Yars’ Revenge” with games that will be added in the future.

“Atari wondered how they could bring some of those classic games to people in 2012, and make them relevant for today,” said a Product Manager, Ian Moulster, who works for the Windows team at Microsoft. “We worked with Atari and a developer called Grant Skinner, which builds Flash and Web-based games. We asked how can we build some of these classic Atari games using HTML5, Javascript, CSS…and do so that they’re optimized for Touch?” It is unknown if the games will become Windows 8 “Modern UI” apps in the future. With this team up, Microsoft could be hinting at it.

The games were designed “with slightly-bigger screens in mind” and work more efficiently on “computers and tablets.” The games produce “no lag” and have a “completely native feel.”

You can try out the games that are currently avaliable athttp://arcade.atari.com

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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