Bringing the classics back on stream
When it comes to nostalgia, there’s a special place in every retro gamer’s heart for that low-res C:\> prompt. It would represent the starting point for an exciting journey into a digital world, and there were certainly many titles to enjoy during the 1980s and 1990s.
Most tastes were catered for, from interactive fiction and real-time strategy to point-and-click quests and first person 3D shooters, as genres were formed and techniques refined. Past names trip off the tongue: The Secret of Monkey Island, Prince of Persia, Sid Meier’s Civilization, Doom and Sim City to name but five – all from an era of playing alone in a bedroom, long before online gaming became the standard.
Head to the Internet Archive’s library of DOS games () and you’ll find more than 7,000
