Twitter now lets you embed playable MS-DOS games into tweets

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YOU CAN NOW play classic Microsoft Operating System Disk System (MS-DOS) games, such as Oregon Trail and Street Fighter II, without having to stop tweeting.
 
Following the release of the Internet Archive's MS-DOS games library earlier this year, which lets you play 2,600-plus classic titles in a web browser, users have noticed that these can be embedded into tweets (below). 
 
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Playing DOS games in twetts seems like a nice way to spend time when I am bored. I wonder when Windows 3.1, 95, 98 and XP games will be playable within tweets in Twitter.
 
If this was published on April 1st, I would have thought it was a prank. Why MS-DOS? Who even plays such games anymore? And who would play games on Twitter when there are better games on your cellphone, without even having to use your internet connection?
 
alakazam said:
If this was published on April 1st, I would have thought it was a prank. Why MS-DOS? Who even plays such games anymore? And who would play games on Twitter when there are better games on your cellphone, without even having to use your internet connection?
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If its classic games, no matter what, people will still play them.
 
alakazam said:
If this was published on April 1st, I would have thought it was a prank. Why MS-DOS? Who even plays such games anymore? And who would play games on Twitter when there are better games on your cellphone, without even having to use your internet connection?
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I think most DOS games are no longer protecteded by copyright laws since they fall under the public domain licensing laws where content is so old that people can play the games for free without breaking the laws like how it is legal to download classic books, and music because they are now public domain.

I think many flash games and web browser games on Facebook now has better graphics than DOS games.
 
froggyboy604 said:
I guest Twitter does not want people playing games on their websites, and rather have them view twetts, and click on those Advertisement Promoted Twetts.
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Well, Twitter's purpose is not gaming-related in any way. While facebook branched off and added games and stuff, Twitter is (still) only a microblogging platform.
 
alakazam said:
Well, Twitter's purpose is not gaming-related in any way. While facebook branched off and added games and stuff, Twitter is (still) only a microblogging platform.
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Twitter can also be considered a photo sharing site, and micro-video blogging site since they own Vine which is a short-form video sharing site.

It's too bad that Twitter does not branch out into simple games which may make people stay longer on their site instead of clicking a link on a twett to another website like a news site, or other social networks like Instagram, and Facebook.
 
froggyboy604 said:
Twitter can also be considered a photo sharing site, and micro-video blogging site since they own Vine which is a short-form video sharing site.
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I remember reading a while a go that someone had bought Vine, but I didn't know that it was Twitter... This is interesting...  It makes me feel less inclined to use Vine now that I found out this... :confused:
 
Demon_Skeith said:
I can only imagine how much their servers were being slowed with lots of games being played.
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 I think the games are not hosted on Twitter. The games are still streamed from Archive.org's server.

I bet, one of the reason that Twitter block games because it attracted more visitors who use ad-blocking software to block Twitter Ads in Twetts. A lot of gamers are tech savvy, so they use ad-blocking software, and are a lot less likely to click on ads to avoid making money for websites which they don't want to support by viewing and clicking ads on websites.

Plus, people who play games on Twitter are less likely to view more twetts, and visit other Twitter profiles, so people who play games produce less page ad views for Twitter since people can play one game for hours.
 
I think a lot of other social networks are not as popular/active as Twitter, so there is not much of a point to post games to other social networks since DOS games won't get played as much as on Twitter.

Members on Facebook would probably rather play better games which are hosted on Facebook, and Google Plus members just seem to mainly share links.
 
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