Who needs to keep old video game consoles in their basement, collecting dust, when all of the classic games those consoles supported are playable online? Who needs to spend money amassing a sprawling video game collection when older games can be accessed on the web for a fee of approximately nothing?

Those are the questions being posed by the Internet Archive which, according to a report published on Friday by Digital Spy, recently made a huge collection of older video games available and playable online for free. Don’t get too excited yet to play through all of those Super Nintendo and N64 games from your youth, though: at the moment, the so-called Internet Archive Console Living Room, is only dedicated to the most retro of gaming consoles.

So far, the Console Living Room includes sections for five different gaming consoles – the Atari 2600, the Atari 7800 ProSystem, the ColecoVision, the Magnavox Odyssey, and the Astrocade. The Atari consoles are still remembered fondly by many gamers, while some of the other models have been a bit more forgotten over time. Regardless of how successful the gaming systems were back in the day, however, hundreds of their games have now been modified for emulated computer and internet use. From “Donkey Kong” to “Pac-Man” and from “Asteroids” to old licensed games like “Spider-Man” and “The Return of the Jedi,” the Internet Archive Console Living Room will allow players to recapture the timeless throwback feel of 1970s and 1980s gaming.

At the moment, the games don’t have sound, removing the beeps and blips that would truly posit the Internet Archive Console Living Room as a vintage and nostalgic experience. However, Jason Scott, one of the Internet Archive’s curators suggested that the Console Living Room section would be receiving some overhauls and improvements over the next few months. Sound will be one of those improvements, as will an expansion of the game library. Could players see games from more recent consoles, such as early Nintendo or Sega models, make their way to the Archive over the next few years? That remains to be seen, but if the experiment is well received, it’s a possibility.

However, before the Archive can get Nintendo, it needs to get through the early stages of implementing the Console Living Room as a widely used and respected tool. Scott says he wants the instant availability of the games to open up opportunities for “commentary, education, enjoyment, and memory.” However, it’s currently unclear whether or not the Archive has permission to emulate every game it currently has in its collection. Some retro game developers may prefer to port their own games over to smartphones so that they can make a profit off the retro gaming revival.