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If you want to relive the halcyon days of gaming, then you might want to head over to Twitter.

The social network now lets you embed games that were playable on Microsoft's old operating system, MS-DOS.

Simply by embedding the code for a game in a tweet, you can use your keyboard to play along.

A hidden function in tweets that lets you embed games has been revealed. It is not clear how long California-based Twitter has had the feature. It works by pasting a URL from games available on the Internet Archive and thousands of games are available from Donkey Kong (shown) to Street Fighter

The feature was spotted by Wired and games can only be played on the desktop version of the social network. 

It relies on using URLs from the thousands of MS-DOS games available in the Internet Archive, everything from Wolfenstein 3D to Streetfighter.

To embed a game, paste the URL to one of the games on the site in a tweet.

Then, using the keyboard, players can control the game using the arrow keys and the numpad. 

This is the latest in a long line of media that Twitter now enables users to embed - including Instagram images and YouTube videos.

The feature relies on using URLs from the thousands of MS-DOS games available in the Internet Archive (shown) - everything from Wolfenstein 3D to Streetfighter. To embed a game, paste the URL into one of the games on the site in a tweet. The games can only be played on the desktop version of the social network

The games can also be embedded into iFrame or Wordpress as well, if players want to share them elsewhere.

The Internet Archive contains more than 2,000 MS-DOS games in an attempt to make sure they are not lost to time.

And now, thanks to this trick, many who didn't get to play them the first time around have access to them again.

It is not quite clear when this feature became available on Twitter, though. MailOnline has asked the company for clarification.