--- title: The 10 Best Classic PC Games You Can Play Right Now description: These 10 MS-DOS titles load up in your browser — no floppy disks required. canonical: https://time.com/3662496/play-classic-pc-games/ author: John Patrick Pullen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-10T14:00:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:45:22.056Z article:section: Business og:title: The 10 Best Classic PC Games You Can Play Right Now og:description: These 10 MS-DOS titles load up in your browser — no floppy disks required. og:url: https://time.com/3662496/play-classic-pc-games/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d71c75157c9cf0e/698778753c1639e427451003/oregon_trail.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: oregon_trail og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The 10 Best Classic PC Games You Can Play Right Now twitter:description: These 10 MS-DOS titles load up in your browser — no floppy disks required. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1d71c75157c9cf0e/698778753c1639e427451003/oregon_trail.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The 10 Best Classic PC Games You Can Play Right Now  by [John Patrick Pullen](/author/john-patrick-pullen/)  ## John Patrick Pullen Jan 10, 2015 2:00 PM CUT  Oregon Trail Oregon TrailInternet Archive  by [John Patrick Pullen](/author/john-patrick-pullen/)  ## John Patrick Pullen Jan 10, 2015 2:00 PM CUT In the 1980s and 1990s, before Nintendo Entertainment System and Sega Genesis invaded our living rooms, PC games earned the highest scores with gamers. And while classic titles like _Super Mario Brothers_ and _Sonic the Hedgehog_ have been re-released, until recently classic computer games were only available to those willing to download emulators and track down files (or people somehow still sporting floppy drives). Earlier this week, the Internet Archive tanked the world’s productivity by re-releasing almost 2,400 classic PC titles, all playable within a web browser. With that many games, you can bet there’s a lot of bad ones, and sadly, some of the best titles don’t work. (I’m looking at you, _Pool of Radiance_—there’s no way I can “Insert Disk 3” in 2015!) But these ten favorites not only function, they’re still fun: [**AD&D Eye of the Beholder**:](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FEye%5Fof%5Fthe%5FBeholder%5F1991 "undefined") Roll the dice in this 1991 _Dungeons & Dragons_ role playing game that was among the earliest titles to offer character creation. Sure, a lot of today’s games have this, and have leveled up to modern graphics, but there’s nothing like the nostalgia of being a chaotic good paladin roaming the dark passages beneath the city of Waterdeep. Look out, Kobolds! [**Burgertime:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FBurgerTime%5F1982 "undefined") Move over, _Candy Crush_, here comes the main course. Guide Peter Pepper in this hamburger assembling action game as he tries to build the biggest mouthfuls while being chased by enemy eggs, pickles and hot dogs. Back those bad guys off with a blast of pepper, chef, and stack those burgers as high as you can. [**Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FIndiana%5FJones%5Fand%5Fthe%5FLast%5FCrusade%5F-%5FThe%5FAction%5FGame%5F1989 "undefined") Riding the wave of Indy’s last adventure (because we all agree that the _Kingdom of the Crystal Skull_ never happened, right?), this 1989 title was a Holy Grail for gamers, because it gave you control of one of the 80’s coolest characters. Among LucasArts’ earliest games, this browser version is easy to play using a keyboard, but it’s difficult to beat because Dr. Jones is a bit of a pushover. ### See The 15 Best Video Game Graphics of 2014  Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Activision's futuristic first-person shooter in which players take on a rogue private military company uses a brand new engine built specifically for PCs and new-gen consoles to handle its cutting-edge lighting, animation and physics. Sledgehammer Games/Activision  Far Cry 4\. This pulled back shot of fictional Himalayan region Kyrat is in-game, believe it or not, rendered with an overhauled version of the engine Ubisoft used to design Far Cry 3. Ubisoft  The Last of Us: Remastered. Naughty Dog's meditation on the worst (and best) of humanity is built on technology that reaches back through the studio's pulp-adventure Uncharted series. The graphics are so impressive, TIME recently assigned a conflict photographer to photograph inside the game. Ashley Gilbertson for TIME  Alien: Isolation Built from scratch, the Alien: Isolation engine's outstanding deep space visuals all but replicate the set design of Alien film concept artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb's work. The Creative Assembly  Assassin's Creed Unity. Ubisoft says it "basically remade the whole rendering engine" in its AnvilNext design tool to handle the studio's meticulous recreation of Paris during the French Revolution. Ubisoft  Child of Light Inspired by filmmakers like Hayao Miyazaki and artist Yoshitaka Amano, Child of Light's hand-drawn artwork puts the lie to presumptions that graphical richness depends on shader support or polygon counts. Ubisoft  Destiny Built from scratch by ex-Halo studio Bungie, Destiny's game engine was designed to scale across the next decade, says the studio. Bungie  Mario Kart 8 Nintendo's kart-racer for Wii U reminds us that raw horsepower is just a facet of crafting a beautiful game world. Nintendo  Infamous Second Son Sucker Punch's freeform Seattle-based superhero adventure models all sorts of minutia, from the intricate wrinkling of an aged character's face to the way eyelids stick, slightly, before separating when characters blink. Sucker Punch Productions  Monument Valley Escher-like at first glance, Ustwo's mind-bending puzzler was also inspired by posters, bonsai plants, arabic calligraphy and filmmaker Tarsem Singh's The Fall. Ustwo  Grand Theft Auto V Rockstar's remastered crime spree opus was crafted from an in-house engine first employed in a game that simulated table tennis. Rockstar  Titanfall Respawn Entertainment  Forza Horizon 2 Turn 10's Euro-racer actually models light refracted through drops of moisture, the render tech plausibly simulating something as intangible but essential as the earth’s atmosphere. Microsoft Studios/Turn 10 Studios  80 Days Inkle's anti-colonialist vamp on Jules Verne's famous novel uses crisp art deco imagery inspired by travel posters to unfurl 80 Days' tale of intrepid globetrotters Monsieur Fogg and his valet Passepartout. Inkle  Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics' radical reboot of its popular series about an athletic archaeologist uses a modified version of the engine that powered Tomb Raider: Legend in 2006. Square Enix [**The Hobbit:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FHobbit%5FThe%5F1983 "undefined") Open door. Go East. Enjoy game. Sure, after six movies, you might be sick of those tricksy little hobbitses today, but when this game was released in 1983, Tolkein fans only had the books, a 1977 cartoon, and some Led Zeppelin songs to tide them over. This text-based game barely has graphics — and if you want to go really old school you can even play without them, as you guide Bilbo through Middle Earth using only your imagination as your eyes. [**Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FLeisure%5FSuit%5FLarry%5F1%5F-%5FLand%5Fof%5Fthe%5FLounge%5FLizards%5F1987 "undefined") Back in the day, Sierra games were some of the most popular 8-bit adventures around. Today, through some copyright craziness, you can hardly find the old classics anywhere. (_King’s Quest_, the company’s first and biggest hit, is missing from this archive, for instance.) But this adult-oriented title follows the exploits of Larry Laffer as he strolls the city of Lost Wages, looking for love. Tame by today’s standards, it was the _Grand Theft Auto_ of its time. [**Lemmings 2: The Tribes:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FLemmings%5F2%5F-%5FThe%5FTribes%5F1993 "undefined") For some reason the original _Lemmings_ didn’t make the online arcade, but this sequel still scratches the itch for people looking to save as many suicidal critters as they can. A cute puzzler, the object of this game is to lead the little rodents to safety, using lemmings’ specialized digging, blasting, and building skills to navigate the landscape of each level. Or, if you were a wicked child, you can still just guide them to elaborate, untimely demises. [**Oregon Trail:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FOregon%5FTrail%5FThe%5F1990 "undefined") B-A-N-G. Nostalgia for this stalwart of elementary school libraries has never faded — probably because they’ve relaunched the game so many times. Originally released in 1971, the Internet Archive’s edition is from 1990, but don’t worry, you can still die of dysentery in it. Some players have reported it freezes up, but others say claim if you load the page using the Firefox web browser, you’ll be on your way to the Willamette River Valley in no time. [**Prince of Persia:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5F4D%5FPrince%5Fof%5FPersia%5F1994 "undefined") Today’s kids will know this as the game that launched a Jake Gyllenhaal movie, but children of the 1990s fondly recall this as a top-notch adventure game, with great graphics and gameplay (at least for the time). Sure, it’s your typical rescue-the-princess plot, but the run-and-jump platformer has one thing that never gets old: infinite lives. [**Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FWhere%5Fin%5Fthe%5FWorld%5Fis%5FCarmen%5FSandiego%5F1985 "undefined") That’s a great question, but here’s an even better one: How come Interpol needs entry-level detectives to locate a woman wearing a red trench coat and hat? Regardless, this educational title rocked elementary school kids’ worlds back in the 1980s, putting their geography and history smarts to the test. Perhaps the best part of this game is its throwback sound effects, which you can hear in the browser without having to install a Sound Blaster card. [**Wolfenstein 3D:**](https://archive.org/details/msdos%5FWolfenstein%5F3D%5F1992 "undefined") The game that ushered in the first-person shooter category, this 1992 title was the precursor to _Doom_, _Quake_, and many of the gore-fests roaring across consoles today. Rated “PC-13” (for “profound carnage”), Wolfenstein has you, as allied spy B.J. Blazkowicz, racing to escape the Nazis’ clutches. Want a real challenge? Beat it using just the pistol, or even better, the knife. 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