If you want to be productive today and in the days to come, stop reading this article right now…
Are you sure? Do you have some time to waste?
Well, that's good, because the site I'm going to tell you about is a little gem for retro video game enthusiasts…And we can say that for several years now these have been served (in particular with the initiatives of The Internet Archive with the arcade games and more recently MS-DOS games).
How about a site that brings together thousands of retro video games that you can play in your browser?
Classic Reload offers over 6000 free DOS games
This site is called Classic Reload and aims to allow you to play old games that have fallen into the public domain directly in your Internet browser.
The stated goal of the creators of the site is not only to try to preserve all these games released in the 80s and 90s, but also to make them playable on modern machines using emulators.
These thousands of games are classified into several categories: action, adventure, combat, RPG, simulation… or even by year of release.
Beyond DOS games, the site also offers other abandonware classified by platform. You can find games originally released on Sega Genesis, Commodore 64, Windows 3.X, Amiga, Z Spectrum or even on arcade machines.
With such a selection, it is very likely that you will find THE game of your childhood!
The only downside to this site is that it is full, really full of adverts! To use it without too much pain, don't hesitate to activate your ad blocker. Too much advert kills the advert!
In short, a superb initiative that should make the oldest among you nostalgic and will allow the youngest among you to discover the ancestors of our modern games!
Article updated on January 5, 2025 by Byothe
