The Internet Archive's DOS game repository

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https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games - A few months ago, the Internet Archive, one of my favorite sites, opened up a whole vault (over 2000+ games!) of DOS games from the 1980s and 1990s. You can play them for FREE! Just looking @ this site brings back great memories of my childhood. Enjoy.

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I have heard about this. Man will I have fun with this. Yay for Hugo's House of Horrors!

Edit: The whole site is amazing!! I could spend hours going through the sheer mass of content available. How did I not know of this site before!?!?

I discovered that game on an old custom built Pentium 1 DOS PC in my basement. Nothing quite like typing in the command prompt.

Surely it's all freeware/shareware, correct?

I read somewhere that the Internet Archive was granted a DMCA exception for the contents of this archive. Don't quote me on it though. I do know for a fact that there are full commercial games included in it, however.

The way I see it, if you find a game you like and it just happens to be sold on Steam or GoG or Origin, buy it to show your support. Otherwise, I don't think there's anything else in the archive that any copyright holders would be overly concerned about.

Great find, equestriatola!

^ Thanks. Playing some of those games reminded me of the good times I had in the mid-1990s as a child. I miss those days.....

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The Canadian Football League - What We're Made Of

Feel free to talk to me, if you wish.

Every day is a gift- cherish it!

"A true, true friend helps a friend in need."

Finally have time to look the site over...looks like they do have commercially licensed games, but they're only available for playing through their embedded emulator, you can't download them.

Ooooohhhh this is awesome.

Some of these games I look at, I havent seen them in like 15-20 years, havent THOUGHT about them in that long, and I instantly remember them. It's like nostalgia overload.

Currently playing Dangerous Dave. I am determined to beat it after all of these years.

My determination isnt adding up to much so far. Just like all those years ago, I am stuck on level 4. Because ARGH. I remembered THAT level the moment I saw it.

Ah, I miss games like these. The VGA graphics, and the old magenta/cyan/white/black or red/green/orange/black CGA graphics, those bring back many memories, and I always liked them, even back then.

....also there is a game named "Captain Bible". Just.... wow. Crazy names like that always get me. Particularly since back then most of the games on that list were FULL games, not some little minigame put together as an iPad app or something.

Is it just me, or does the sound emulation not work? I was gonna play some Commander Keen IV yesterday, and it was silent.

It could be because I was trying it on Linux. I'm going to try again on Windows.