Welcome to Classic DOS 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 required 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 DOS and "Windows for DOS" (Win16) games. This particular DOS 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. Classic DOS 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:

28 June 2009

• Added 4 games: Alone in the Dark, BrainStrain, Tetris, and WordMix.
• A new version of JPC has been added to the site. It's now possible to play Abuse, Alone in the Dark, Doom, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and Rise of the Triad in your browser! There are now more than 150 games that can be played in your browser.
• There are now screenshots for more than 200 games. Every game will have a screenshot soon.

27 May 2009

• Rewrote the Advanced DOSBox Tutorial for the release of DOSBox 0.73, which now supports proprietary SVGA chipsets.

25 April 2009

• Added 6 games: Cell War, Gold Hunt, Oil Baron, Sink'em, Wordle, and WordMax.

1 April 2009

• Classic DOS Games becomes 20th Century Games! Did you know that Windows 95, 98 and Me were technically DOS operating systems? They came with a copy of DOS 7! But why stop there? 20th Century Games covers games for all of the operating systems of the 20th Century!
• Added 2 games: Balls of Steel and SimCity 3000.
• In honor of the site's new focus on operating systems other than DOS, I was able to get an interview with Steve Jobs, the man behind the Mac!

22 March 2009

• Phase III of the major update is complete. Added a ton of games to the list of games that can be played in your browser. Site code has been simplified and all known bugs have been fixed. Experimenting with small video clips for the Classic DOS Games banner. Awesome or distracting? Comments are encouraged in the forum. Oh, and since this is still a game site, I added some new games.
• Added Thor's Hammer.

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