Current Events > Internet Archive releases 2,500 MS-DOS games (you can play Oregon Trail fam)

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https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-archive-releases-2500-ms-dos-games-so-you-can-relive-the-90s/

If you loved playing MS-DOS games in the '90s like 3D Bomber, Zool and Alien Rampage, you can now replay those, and many more, with the latest update from Internet Archive.

On Sunday, Internet Archive released 2,500 MS-DOS games that includes action, strategy and adventure titles. Some of the games are Vor Terra, Spooky Kooky Monster Maker, Princess Maker 2 and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream.

"This will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago," Internet Archive software curator Jason Scott wrote on the site's blog.

Internet Archive's post:

https://blog.archive.org/2019/10/13/2500-more-ms-dos-games-playable-at-the-archive/

Another few thousand DOS Games are playable at the Internet Archive! Since our initial announcement in 2015, weve added occasional new games here and there to the collection, but this will be our biggest update yet, ranging from tiny recent independent productions to long-forgotten big-name releases from decades ago

To browse the latest collection, hit this link and look around.

The usual caveats apply: Sometimes the emulations are slower than they should be, especially on older machines. Not all games are enjoyable to play. And of course, we are linking manuals where we can but not every game has a manual.

If youve been enjoying our emulation in the browser system over the years, then this is more of that. If youre new to it or want to hear more about all this, keep reading.

A Recognition of Hard Work, and A Breathtaking View

The update of these MS-DOS games comes from a project called eXoDOS, which has expanded over the years in the realm of collecting DOS games for easy playability on modern systems to tracking down and capturing, as best as can be done, the full context of DOS games from the earliest simple games in the first couple years of the IBM PC to recently created independent productions that still work in the MS-DOS environment.

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. Having an old executable and a scanned copy of the manual represents only the first few steps. 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..

Here's the link

https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games
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Damn, scrolling through that first page of most viewed is like falling into a nostalgia portal.
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Oh

Oh my

All these 20+-year-old feels are engulfing my heart
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https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/1488-free-games

follow this board for notifications. only I can make topics
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Tag. Have next week off work may look into this.

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Bubble Bobble is here! Nice

can't figure out what the controls are

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I came
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Tag. I've been wanting to play Oregon Trail for a while now.
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davidg4l posted...

Tag. I've been wanting to play Oregon Trail for a while now.

Same. I'm getting dysentery just thinking about it.
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but do they have Treasure MathStorm
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Oh.

Oh dear.
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I just started up one of the sex games

Oh, shit! They have Rogue?! As in, the main daddy of Rogue-likes?

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This is cool, but I personally don't want to play DOS games.
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Mutant Space Bats of Doom?

they have King's Quest V

WATCH OUT GRAHAM, A POOOOOISONOUS SNAKE!!!
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HylianFox posted...

they have King's Quest V

WATCH OUT GRAHAM, A POOOOOISONOUS SNAKE!!!

They've got Leisure Suit Larry games as well

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Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone

... ookay
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HylianFox posted...

Fuck Quest 2: Romancing the Bone

... ookay

Porn games were the in thing for a bit

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well yeah, even the NES/Famicom had porn games

even the Atari had porn games
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I remember a good portion of these.

I'm old.
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HylianFox posted...

well yeah, even the NES/Famicom had porn games

even the Atari had porn games

I remember 1 in played in the NES was something along the lines Bubble Bath Babes, and I thought it was a really fun game to play

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Im tellin ya, just the intro to Dan Dolme is enough to wanna play it.
im surprised the original Wipeout looks as good as it does.

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Wipeout is on here?
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OMG yes!!
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Oh I thought you meant the PS1 era racer
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Oh shit

Im finally gonna beat Lode Runner!
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Tag again.
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konokonohamaru posted...

I came

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Whoa, tag