Gamers today have tons of options in their hand. They can play game on online server via Steam, Stadia, and Plarium like apps. All these provide free to play games with paid items or service included.
Also, some games are paid version only in these servers. Apart from these online apps, they can play a game in their browser, mobile and as usual on the PC.
Android has changed the gaming culture totally. We can now game anytime anywhere.
Things were not like this always. We had to buy a game and install it on our PC, or copy it from a friend. And some of the old heart still remembers the DOS games era.
Do you know that you can still download those old games and play on your PC again? For all the nostalgic people here are the websites where you can download and play these old games.
01. Abandonia
Abandonia is dedicated to classic DOS game. They serve games that has expired copyright or no longer supported by the publishers. The site is established in 1999 and during the last years they have gathered more than 1100 games to download for free.
The editors categorized the game nicely with detailed reviews and rating. users can also rate the games.
02. Abandonware DOS
Another fine place to get abandoned dos game. The site has some windows title too. The author is pretty active and he wanted people to test the nostalgic games once they used to play.
Good user base with an active rating system has made AbandonwareDOS one of the finest place to get the vintage games.
03. RGB Classic Games
A simple site to preserve the simple games when things were not much complicated. They are not a larger archive. Around 550+ games are hosted by RGB classic games.
RGB Classic Games is devoted to preserving classic games for defunct PC operating systems (DOS, CP/M-86, OS/2, Win16, Win9x) and making it easy to play them on modern computers.
One unique approach the site owner made is to include every version of the classic games. Games that are still selling can be purchased from the respective publishers site.
While other sites aim for the quantity this site is purely driven by quality and testing each game for users.
04. Games Nostalgia
It’s a beautiful site. The font, site design everything will remind you of the classic games era. They have ever growing database of retro gaming, abandonware and the old good classic games of the past.
Here you can find games from 1985 and 1995. You can play most of the games in windows PC or a Mac. They have created own emulator with each games package. You just need to download and unzip the game to play.
05. Internet Archive
Internet archive is popular for archiving copies of sites in different time. Many time it happened we have recovered a site’s content and check the changes over time on Internet Archive. But, they are also saving the software and old classic games also.
You can find around 900+ games to play in your browser from the non-profit Internet Archive.
Their collection will surprise you for sure.
06. My Abandonware
Another great example of a old classic site archive. They have around 14,000 games listed in their site to download. You can find games from 1978 to 2018 in this site.
They do not list only DOS games, but PC games too. Mentioned games you can play are Pacman, Arkanoid, Tetris, Galaxian, Alter Ego, or Blackthorne, Civilization, Sim City, Prince of Persia, Xenon 2, King’s quest, Ultima, Kyrandia, The Incredible Machine, Another World, Test drive, Flashback, Lemmings!
07. Old Games
Most simplest approach to archive the old classic games. There is not much to review or preview. You just browse and download the game you like. All of the games are packed so you can play them in modern windows based PC.
Apart from these sites there are other places where you can download and play your childhood games. Do you think any other sites need mentioning on this list?
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What is your favorite one? Let us know.
I have found 2 more sites with old games. One is a collection and another one you can download and play on your PC.
01. https://www.findretro.games/
02. https://www.dosgames.com/
Although, they have browser playing option for the DOS games, somehow didn’t work for me. Better you download the game and play on your PC.
Added on the list. Keep them coming.