One of the great overlooked eras of gaming is the early PC years. While largely inferior to home computer and console cousins, the library of MS-DOS games is considerable. For many years the domain of flight sims and god games, later MS-DOS games included arcade conversions and driving games. AsRead More →
Forget emulation and virtualization. If you’re a hardcore MS-DOS or Windows 9x gamer, you want a genuine x86 system. Forget wheezing old IBM compatibles, Time machines, Compaqs, and Gateway systems. There is an alternative: the weeCee. Essentially a single-board computer (SBC) with an SD card slot, PS/2 mouse and keyboardRead More →
Playing retro PC games has never been easier than with the browser-based DOS_Deck tool.Read More →
Promising to stick MS-DOS games in your pocket, the Pocket 386 is an imported classic PC handheld that has sold out on AliExpress. Last year we brought you news of the Weecee, a mini PC designed to run MS-DOS and Windows 95 games. Well, the Pocket 386 (a smaller version,Read More →
One of the greatest 16-bit era real-time strategy titles was Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty. After morphing into the Command & Conquer series, the Dune II game was forgotten for years – until now. What is this new Dune II game? Dune II – The Maker is anRead More →
Before Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon, there was the board game known simply as 1830. The full title – 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons – was a 1986 railroad building board game by Avalon Hill that, along with their earlier release, Rail Baron inspired Sid Meier to design Railroad Tycoon. Buoyed byRead More →
Think Civilization was the beginning? Think again: in 1980, Avalon Hill released a board game, called Civilization. (This is the game upon which the Sid Meier classic was loosely based.) But a few years later, in 1991, the company released an expansion pack, Advanced Civilization. To confuse matters more, inRead More →
Before Sensible Soccer there was MicroProse Soccer – and it’s now available on Steam. But this isn’t the classic Commodore 64 version. Why would anyone play the DOS version? Pre-match infodump: MicroProse Soccer was a top-down football simulation on the Commodore 64. Designed by Sensible Software with graphics by JonRead More →
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