KUSA - Get the family in the wagon, get your dysentery shot and head off on the rocky trail to Oregon because the MS-DOS games that occupied our time in the 80s and 90s are now available for free.
The Internet Archive released more than 2,000 titles online, including The Oregon Trail, Street Fighter, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Lion King, Duke, Nukem, Prince of Persiaand Chuck Yaeger's Advanced Flight Trainer.
The website allows users to play in their web browser, making them available to people instantly on all computer platforms. The creators acknowledge this means that there may be some bugs and want users to offer feedback as they play. The format also means you can't really save your game to play later, but when you're fighting your way across the a dusty trail with only 6 pounds of squirrel meat left, you wouldn't really want to stop anyway.
The Internet Archive is primarily known for running The Wayback Machine, a time capsule for the World Wide Web, but is becoming a hotbed for gaming after releasing emulators to play Atari and arcade games previously. And just like with those games, there aren't any instructions, so if you haven't played before or if it's been awhile, it may take some experimentation. But, hey, that's half the fun!
Play your favorite title here:https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos_games/v2
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