Welcome to RGB Classic Games. This is a very simple web site about a very simple time.

A long time ago, back in the 1980s and early 90s, the best games were for DOS, or a version of Windows that ran on top of DOS. Most of the best games were shareware or, more accurately, the first few levels were free and you had to pay for the rest. These were the games my friends and I spent our childhood playing, but lost track of after modern operating systems swept DOS into history.

This website is devoted to classic DOS and Windows games. This particular classic games site is a little more focused than most. Companies and individuals produced thousands of shareware games for DOS and, like movies and books and anything else, a lot of them weren't very good. Most sites aim for quantity. This site is almost exclusively dedicated to games that were distributed commercially, except for a select few games that were extremely good and achieved the same level of quality. Only the best games make it to this site.

This web site is unique. I am attempting to include every version of each listed game. A lot of research has gone into making sure that all of the information on this site is correct. You'll quickly notice that there is no other web site that has all of these files in one place. RGB Classic Games is quite possibly the most complete, and most accurate classic DOS games resource in the world.

The highest ideals of this site are to support the authors by providing links to their web sites and ordering information for the full versions of games that are still sold, and to encourage the authors of classic games to preserve their games for future generations by making them available for sale or as freeware. If you enjoy a shareware game, please consider buying it from the author.

All of the games on this site are freely distributable because they are shareware, freeware, or because the copyright holder has officially and legally released all rights to the public domain (abandonware).

Latest news:

7 February 2010

• Added 4 games: GobMan, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Starfire, and Tube.

21 January 2010

• Classic DOS Games becomes RGB Classic Games! We already had Win9x versions of games that were originally DOS or Win16 games. Win9x games are in desperate need of preservation, so the site's mandate has been expanded to allow Win9x games to be included.
• Added 2 games: Disney's Beauty and the Beast and Where's Waldo? at the Circus.
• Thank you to the fellow who donated 10 cents (presumably as a New Year's gift for 2010). If everyone sent a small donation of nothing more than their pocket change to websites that they really like, it would revolutionize the Internet. Unfortunately, PayPal charges a fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 on all payments, so the fee on a donation of $0.30 or less is 100%. PayPal rejected my suggestion that they allow small donations and charge their fee on a monthly or annual basis instead of per transaction, to allow millions of dollars in small donations to be contributed to websites around the world. 100% of all small donations are kept by PayPal, and I have to refund your money to prevent PayPal from keeping it. I appreciate your willingness to donate, but I'd rather you keep your change than give it to PayPal. Please put your pocket change in a Salvation Army donation globe, or a busker's guitar case, or give it to a homeless person. PayPal has enough pennies already!

31 December 2009

• Major Update III: Phase II. Each game has its own page now! This will allow much more information to be displayed for each game, which would have been a problem on a page with dozens of games. Games now link directly to their compatibility page on the DOS Games Compatibility Wiki. Greatly expanded the information in the companies section. Most companies include a flag to indicate the country of origin. Clicking on the link for Games Developed/Published/All lists all of the games that the company developed/published/both. Improved the appearance of links. Updated Utilities section with new versions of Bochs and ScummVM. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added 7 games: Alone in the Dark 2, Atomic Tetris, Gazillionaire, Night Raid, Oxyd, Shih Dao, and Star Wars: TIE Fighter.
• There are now over 350 games on the site!
• Added an interview of Everett Kaser.

15 November 2009

• Major Update III: Phase I. It's been about a year since the last Major Update, so it's time for another massive overhaul of the site. Added greatly improved screenshot software. Redesigned the webshrines to pop-up full-size images of the thumbnails in the level maps to make it easier to follow along as you're playing. Added Arcade genre. Added a thread for recommending games to add to the site. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added a Slam! Webshrine.
• Added 4 games: Chomp for Windows, Hyperoid, Warheads for Windows, and Worm War.

31 October 2009

• Added 2 games: Robomaze II and Robomaze III.

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