If you like to play those retro games from the 1990s, you can now play more: Since its first release in 2015, the Internet Archive website has undergone a major update on October 13, 2019. 2500 MS-DOS games were released in one breath, including action, strategy, and adventure. Players can play for free through the browser without knowing any simulator principles, and they can also download collections.
These 2500 games include "Sim City 2000", "Pretty Girl DreamWorks 2", "EF2000", "Iron Blood Farmer", "Haunted Mansion" and "Champion" "Football Manager 2" and "Silent Roar" etc.
It should be noted that because it is running with Dosbox emulator, if the player’s PC configuration is poor, the running speed will be slower, not all games All have a good experience, and some games lack manuals.
The update of these MS-DOS games comes from a project called eXoDOS on this website, which aims to collect DOS games from the very beginning to the present on PCs and run them in the current computer environment.
MS-DOS was born in 1981 and has a history of nearly 40 years. In the past 40 years, the configuration of the PC has undergone considerable changes, and many games are run on a specific hardware platform during a specific period, so many games have been forgotten in the course of time. .
Since the CD-ROM was born in the early 1990s, some MS-DOS games stored on this large-capacity storage medium have been downloaded to the local network due to the huge amount of data (700MB). The time to enter the cache has greatly increased, and the experience of running these games through the browser has become very poor. This is a major problem currently existing in the eXoDOS project.
According to the website’s software administrator Jason Scott (Jason Scott) wrote in the official blog: “This will be our biggest update so far. A long-forgotten masterpiece."
One of the action-adventure horror game "Haunted House Shadows" released by Infogrames in 1992 may evoke some memories of players.
In this game, players can play the role of private detective Edward Carnby or his family, Emily Hartwood, who are investigating Jeremy Hartwood (Jeremy Hartwood) The bizarre death of Derceto, a mansion in Louisiana, USA.
After entering the mansion, it is found that it is haunted. Players must fight enemies such as rats, zombies and giant worms, and solve many puzzles to escape from this haunted house.
The San Francisco-based Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library organization founded in 1996 by Alexa founder Brewster Ka Lee founded.
website provides permanent free storage and access to digital data such as websites, music, dynamic images, and millions of books. The archive is also one of the proponents of network openness and liberalization.
In January 2015, the Internet Archive released 2,400 MS-DOS games, among which there are many classic works born in the 1980s and 90s that were crazy in childhood. Such as "Street Fighter 2", "Sim City", "Duke of Destruction 3D", "Commander Keane", "Wasteland", "Prince of Persia" and "Return to German Army Headquarters 3D".
Since then, the website has been continuously updated, plus the 25 released this time00 items, the Internet Archive has collected more than 7,000 MS-DOS games.
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