When it debuted in 1981, MS-DOS probably didn’t seem like a promising platform for gaming. But from roughly 1981 to 1997, publishers released thousands of games in every genre for the PC and its ...

How to play some of your favorite games from the 1980s and 1990s for free. Users can now play The Oregon Trail Deluxe by MECC on the Internet Archive. The Oregon Trail Deluxe is one of over 2,000 ...

More than 2,500 MS-DOS games have been uploaded to the Internet Archive’s Software Library, including Harlan Ellison’s I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream — based on Ellison’s short story of the same ...

Just visit the Internet Archive's MS-DOS library, pick an interesting title, and paste the URL into a tweet. Old media, meet new media. A number of MS-DOS games housed in the Internet Archive are now ...

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...

You can now play over 2,400 MS-DOS games in your browser for free thanks to the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that collects web pages, text, audio ...

The MS-DOS generation of gaming was an incredibly iconic one. Some of the greatest games came out during this time, and several of them developed into fantastic franchises that are still going strong ...

Gamers who have been enjoying PC gaming for decades will probably have fond memories of playing classic MS-DOS games back in the day. Some of those games have been made playable on Archive.org. MS-DOS ...

Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

Nobody makes games like they used to, but that’s OK, because MS-DOS games now live in your browser thanks to the Internet Archive. The 2,400 available games are entirely playable and work without ...

Long before the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, your video game options as a kid consisted of a home console like the Nintendo Entertainment System or a floppy disk and computer that ultimately took up ...

Twitter is putting the "platformer" in "social media platform" with a cool feature that allows you to play classic games like Prince of Persia and Oregon Trail in your tweets. Claire Reilly was a ...