Ah, Daggerfall; you taught me how to cheat with creativity, which I carried with me right into my Dungeons Dragons years.

Dos Games Archive Has Added

The archive has added 2,500 new MS-DOS titles for you to try out, and they are all free of charge.

Advertisement If youre curious about exactly how this is possible, the Internet Archive has a wonderful blog post that explains the process of getting these games working in a playable state.

Dos Games Software Preservation And

As digital historian Jason Scott writes: What makes the collection more than just a pile of old, now-playable games, is how it has to take head-on the problems of software preservation and history.

DOS has remained consistent in some ways over the last (nearly) 40 years, but a lot has changed under the hood and programs were sometimes only written to work on very specific hardware and a very specific setup.

They were released, sold some amount of copies, and then disappeared off the shelves, if not everyones memories.

It is all these extra steps, under the hood, of acquisition and configuration, that represents the hardest work by the eXoDOS project, and I recognize that long-time and Herculean effort.

As a result, the eXoDOS project has over 7,000 titles theyve made work dependably and consistently.

Now, if youd rather just get to the games, know that scanning your way through 2,500 titles is going to take some time.

And youll probably have to do a bit of internet searching to convince yourself to try titles that might sound familiar, but you dont really remember all that well.

To get you started, here are a few recommendations we think are worth trying out (unless you want to go download and play everything ).

The Best Websites to Get Your Retro Gaming Fix Ready to relive some retro games directly in your web browser If youre bored at work and your Read more GO Media may get a commission Click To Claim Your Free Month Paramount - 30-Day Trial Amazon The Secret of Monkey Island Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement It doesnt get much more fun than this.

Sure, you can probably pick up this game on your favorite digital distribution service for a tiny fee, or you can just go ahead and sink hours into the MS-DOS version for absolutely nothing.

The Punisher Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement This is one of the earliest games I remember playing on my MS-DOS system way back whenlikely a 386 or 486 computer with some paltry amount of memory (that at the time, probably felt pretty awesome).

You run around New York City, gunning down any bad guys you can get your hands on.

The more evil you stop, the more money you make, and the closer you are to obliterating the mighty Kingpin.

It didnt get much more violent than this back in the MS-DOS days.

The Price is Right Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement I mean, how else are you going to prepare for winning big on the show, like that guy from the documentary Night Trap Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement I used to be terrified of this game as a kid for whatever reason.

Your goal Set traps to help keep mysterious intrudersvampires, if Im rightfrom killing a partys worth of people.

Its a silly concept in 2019, but Night Trap was a pretty big deal two-plus decades ago.

Microsoft Flight Simulator Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement Get in some practice flying the way things used to beback in 1993before you take on Microsofts big updated version thats set to launch next year.

The Incredible Machine 2 Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement Im pretty sure I convinced my parents to buy me this back in the 90s because I said it was educational.

The Elder Scrolls - Daggerfall Screenshot: Moby Games Advertisement Yes.

Oh, yes. I was terrible at navigating my way through this games dungeons, but Ill be damned if I didnt have the most maxed-out character in the realmthanks to the ingenious cheat of walking into one of the games many shops, advancing time past the shops closing, stealing everything on its shelves, then selling it all back to the shopkeeper (or keeping it yourself) in the morning.

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