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 ...

For a certain generation, failing at The Oregon Trail was a rite of passage. Walk up to anyone of a particular age and mutter, "you have died of dysentery," and they'll nod in solemn understanding.

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 ...

Ever felt like getting back to the era when we used to play games on our computer system? Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only ...

FreeDOS, the free and open-source alternative to Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), just released a new major update. It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, ...

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 ...

Twitter, Inc.’s financials may not be looking great right now, but users are still discovering new ways to use the microblog service to slack off at work. Earlier this year, the Internet Archive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...