Category
Arcade games
Browse arcade games across all supported archive platforms.
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Alive SharksAlive Sharks is an underwater action arcade game. You play the Frogman (a guy in a scuba suit) who is attempting to collect rare marine creatures from the bottom of the sea while being attacked by sharks. | DOS | 1990 | Arcade | PLAY |
AntixThis game is pretty addictive (for its time). It runs a bit too fast though. | DOS | 1985 | Arcade | PLAY |
Arkanoid (Eclipse Goodies)This is a very Spartan, minimalist Arkanoid clone by the French demogroup Eclipse. You bounce the ball with the paddle at the bottom of the screen, trying to destroy all blocks on the playing field. | DOS | 1993 | Arcade | PLAY |
Back to the MoonBack to the Moon is a game inspired by the classic Lunar Lander. You need to safely guide a rescue module to the surface of the Moon (and later of other planets) to extract miners stranded there. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
BallgameBallgame is a simple clone of ball-rolling games like Rock'n'Roll or Rollin. The objective is to move a ball through mazes filled with various traps to the exit. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
BananoidBananoid is a freeware Arkanoid clone, which runs on a tweaked VGA mode the author likes to call 360x240 MCGA. It features seven levels that span two screens for a total resolution of 544x240, according to the manual. | DOS | 1989 | Arcade | PLAY |
BAP!!!BAP!!! (which stands for Ball And Paddle) is a simple Breakout clone: destroy all bricks with a ball that is controlled indirectly with a paddle at the bottom, making sure the ball does not fall off the screen. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
BlocXBlocX is a Breakout variant by an unknown author (possibly called Vaska). | DOS | 1997 | Arcade | PLAY |
Bricks (Vince Bly)Bricks is a very simple Breakout clone with CGA graphics and non-intitive controls. To properly play this in DOSBox, you'll need to set machine=cga in dosbox.conf. | DOS | 1984 | Arcade | PLAY |
Bubble Pop (Ed Federmeyer)This game should not be confused with Bubble Pop by Software of Sweden. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
CRASHCRASH is a remake of the classic Tron light-cycle racing game. The objective is to destroy opponents while avoiding the walls of the playing field, as well as the traces left by your own cycle and those of the opponents. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
Deluxe SnakeDeluxe Snake is an excellent quality Snake/Nibbles variant with high-resolution graphics, smooth animations and extended features. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
Digger RemasteredBack in the days of grey television sets (almost), Digger (Windmill Software) was one of the games that set the gaming industry on the go. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
Duck CrossingA short Game Boy videogame inspired by Frogger and its modern successor Crossy Road. | Game Boy | 2025 | Arcade | PLAY |
EGAWALLSEGAWALLS is a very nice and clean Breakout clone for one or two players. | DOS | 1989 | Arcade | PLAY |
Hack-Man 2Hack-Man 2 is a Pac-Man variant written in QuickBASIC. The playing mechanics are the same as in the original arcade game, but the mazes are completely new and original. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
HeroesHeroes is a colourful arcade game that combines elements from Nibbles, Tron and Snafu with multiple game modes, bonuses and other features. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
I Can't Believe It's Not BombermanA tribute to Bomberman of sorts. You control a little guy who can place bombs to blow up walls and other obstacles, and collect powerups to do so more efficiently. The game has two modes: Battle Mode and Adventure Mode. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
Jump 'n BumpDo you want to trade place with a cute little rabbit, not having to worry about a thing, for an hour or two? Well, nothing to worry about won't be the case in this multiplayer bloodbath. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
Kinetic Worm DimensionKinetic Worm Dimension is a Snake/Nibbles variant with the twist that the snake moves over a "3D" field, represented by the three visible sides of a polygon. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
KosmonautKosmonaut is the original idea behind the game SkyRoads. In this game you control a hovercraft, flying over an obstacle different platforms on which you must avoid falling off and gaping holes. | DOS | 1990 | Arcade | PLAY |
L5RCL5RC is a very simple speed typing game of sorts where you need to enter sequences of numbers matching the icons on the screen. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
MegaDschumpMegaDschump is an enhanced re-release of Dschump! with much prettier graphics and remixed levels, but otherwise similar to the original game. | DOS | 1994 | Arcade | PLAY |
MonchrMultiple-board DOS maze-clearing. Very much like many of the games that were developed for personal computer systems in the eighties. | DOS | 1980 | Arcade | PLAY |
Mr.Boom 3.0Mr.Boom is a multiplayer freeware game, made for DOS (but that now works fine in Windows 95/98). It's a Bomberman-clone compatible with IPX, to enable 8 players network gaming. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
Ms Pacman (George Tzoumas)A very simple clone of Ms. Pac-Man, written in Turbo Pascal, source code included. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
MS-PAC PCThis is an unofficial conversion of the popular arcade game featuring the dot-munching yellow character - this time the female version. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
MultiSync BallMultiSync Ball is a simple Arkanoid/Breakout variant. As usual, the player's objective is to clear the playing field of all the colourful blocks without letting the ball to fall off the screen. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
PaddlersPaddlers is a Breakout like brick-breaking game for up to four players on the same field, with the paddles positioned at all four sides of the screen, and bricks in the centre. | DOS | 1996 | Arcade | PLAY |
PakoPako is a fast-paced game similar to Pac-Man, but with a big variety of levels and monsters. | DOS | 1994 | Arcade | PLAY |
PangoPango is a fan remake of console game Pengo with similar playing mechanics. The player controls a green character in a maze, who is chased by yellow blobs (described as bees in the game help). | DOS | 1983 | Arcade | PLAY |
PC*BertPC*Bert is an excellent fanmade remake of Atari/Parker Brothers' Q*Bert, one of the most classic arcade games of all time. The gameplay is the same, and the controls are just as simple as in the original. | DOS | 1997 | Arcade | PLAY |
PerestroikaPerestroika (also known as Toppler) is an arcade game written by young Soviet computer scientists on the eve of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. | DOS | 1990 | Arcade | PLAY |
Pizza WormPizza Worm falls into the category of snake-clones - with the difference that you can turn at any angle. The graphics are fairly good and the author has thrown in some amusing sound effects. | DOS | 1994 | Arcade | PLAY |
PopCornPopCorn is considered one of the better Breakout clones for DOS, even though it's pretty old and uses a palette of only four colours. | DOS | 1988 | Arcade | PLAY |
PulsoidPulsoid is a Breakout/Arkanoid type game that was inspired by a similar ZX Spectrum game called Pulsoids. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
PyromaniaWelcome to Pyromania! This game gives you a lot of fun and action, assuming you have one or more partners you can play the game with, since it is only a multiplayer game. | DOS | 1997 | Arcade | PLAY |
RetroWormRetroWorm is a simple Nibbles variant with text-mode graphics. The main difference from the classic Nibbles is that each time you play, there are random obstacles (blue dots) scattered across the playing field. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
Six-Pac 3DSix-Pac 3D is a first-peson maze game that was clearly inspired by Pac-Man, but utilizes a pseudo-3D engine not unlike that from Wolfenstein 3D. | DOS | 1997 | Arcade | PLAY |
The Black OrbThe Black Orb is a simple but fun Ganutlet like game. The difference is that instead of shooting, the player attacks from close range like in roguelikes. | DOS | 1989 | Arcade | PLAY |
The Horizont NibbleSThis Nibbles variant is a fan remake of Fasttracker Nibbles, using the same mechanics and level layouts, but the visual design imitates the OS/2 desktop GUI. | DOS | 1999 | Arcade | PLAY |
The Real WormThe Real Worm is a simple but colourful Snake/Nibbles variant. Eat the dots to grow the worm longer, but make sure not to crash into walls or into its own tail. | DOS | 1998 | Arcade | PLAY |
TITANmanThis is a very simple Pac-Man clone with high-res 640x480 graphics. It appears to have been created as a promotion of sorts for a computer store in Copenhagen, Denmark. | DOS | 1990 | Arcade | PLAY |
Velcro MindVelcro balls are flying all over the screen, and you need to make sense of all the colors before you get overwhelmed. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
VGA KixThis is a freeware clone of the popular arcade game, Qix. The player controls a "stylus" which can draw lines on the playing field, which will colour a part of it when the line connects two sides of the board. | DOS | 1993 | Arcade | PLAY |
VlakVlak (which is a Czech word meaning train) is a Snake clone, but here, instead of a snake, you control a locomotive that moves about and can pick various goods, adding rail cars to the train for each unit of cargo or... | DOS | 1993 | Arcade | PLAY |
WetSpot 2WetSpot 2 is an arcade game which resembles the old Bubble Bobble and Pengo games. | DOS | 1997 | Arcade | PLAY |
Wild Snake Boa IIOne of the best snake games for old trusty MS-DOS. ;) | DOS | 2024 | Arcade | PLAY |
Zorlim's Arcade VolleyballThis is an unofficial VGA remake of the classic Arcade Volleyball game with music, digitized sound effects and several random backgrounds. | DOS | 1995 | Arcade | PLAY |
