# MS-DOS

> MS-DOS is Microsoft's disk operating system for IBM PC compatibles. It dominated PCs from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, and DOSBox runs its software today.

Web page: https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/
Page updated: 2026-10-04

- Developer: Microsoft
- Released: 1981

MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most popular member of the DOS family and the main operating system for IBM PC compatibles.

It reigned from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, when it was gradually replaced by operating systems with a graphical user interface (GUI), most notably Microsoft Windows.

Because DOS was around for so long, a huge amount of software was written for it, and almost none of it will run on a modern operating system. Emulators such as DOSBox recreate a DOS PC so that old programs and games can run on modern systems.

## DOS Emulators

- [DOSBox Staging](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/emulator/dosboxstaging/index.md): DOSBox Staging is a modern, actively developed continuation of DOSBox with sensible defaults, CRT shaders and a wide range of emulated sound devices.
- [DOSBox-X](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/emulator/dosboxx/index.md): DOSBox-X is an open source DOSBox fork focused on accuracy. It runs DOS games and applications, Windows 3.x to Me, and PC-98 and DOS/V software.
- [DOSBox](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/emulator/dosbox/index.md): DOSBox is the original open source DOS emulator for running old PC games. It is no longer updated; its last release, 0.74-3, came out in 2019.

## MS-DOS Games

- [4D Prince of Persia](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/4d-prince-of-persia/index.md): 4D Prince of Persia is a fan-made version of Jordan Mechner's Prince of Persia, with new levels built from the original game's graphics and engine.
- [A-Pac](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/a-pac/index.md): A-Pac is a Pac-Man remake with VGA graphics. A-Pac sets out to rescue Ms.
- [ABM](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/abm/index.md): ABM is a missile defence game. Enemy missiles streak down towards the cities, and you launch interceptors to destroy them before they land.
- [Abuse](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/abuse/index.md): Abuse is a side-scrolling shooter in which Nick Vrenna fights his way out of an underground prison overrun by mutants.
- [Adventure (Colossal Cave)](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/colossal-cave-adventure/index.md): Adventure is the original text adventure.
- [Akalabeth: World of Doom](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/akalabeth-world-of-doom/index.md): A 1998 PC conversion of Richard Garriott's 1979 dungeon crawler, the game that came before Ultima, made for Origin's Ultima IX.
- [Alien Carnage](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/alien-carnage/index.md): A jetpack shooter from Apogee: Halloween Harry clears a city of aliens and zombies with a flamethrower. Released as freeware in 2007.
- [Alien Phobia](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/alien-phobia/index.md): Alien Phobia is a small top-down action game where you hold off a swarm of around 400 aliens with a minigun and a flamethrower.
- [Alley Cat](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/alley-cat/index.md): Alley Cat puts you in the paws of Freddy, a tomcat who leaps between bins, fences and clotheslines to slip through open windows.
- [Amazon Snake](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/amazon-snake/index.md): Amazon Snake is a take on the classic snake game for one or two players: steer the snake around the screen, eat the food and avoid your own growing tail.
- [Ancient Domains of Mystery](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/ancient-domains-of-mystery/index.md): A roguelike in which you stop the forces of Chaos from overrunning the land of Ancardia, with a huge world, quests and many endings.
- [Angband](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/angband/index.md): A Tolkien-themed roguelike: build a character and dive a hundred random levels to defeat Morgoth. The DOS build of version 3.0.6.
- [Antarctic Adventure](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/antarctic-adventure/index.md): Antarctic Adventure is Konami's racing game for a penguin.
- [Apogee Adventure Fun-Pak](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/apogee-adventure-fun-pak/index.md): The Adventure Fun-Pak and Puzzle Pack are two of the earliest Apogee releases, from before the company's famous platform games.
- [Arcade Volleyball](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/arcade-volleyball/index.md): Arcade Volleyball is a two-player beach volleyball game in which two round-headed players bounce the ball over the net with their heads.
- [Arctic Adventure](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/arctic-adventure/index.md): Arctic Adventure sends explorer Nevada Smith through a series of icy caverns to find the treasures of a lost Viking expedition.
- [ARGH](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/argh/index.md): ARGH is a collection of sliding block puzzles.
- [Assault Trooper](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/assault-trooper/index.md): Assault Trooper is an overhead action game in which a lone soldier fights through jungle bases, rivers and villages.
- [BabyType](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/babytype/index.md): BabyType is a touch-typing tutor that shows the keyboard on screen and turns its lessons into small cartoon games.
- [Beneath a Steel Sky](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/beneath-a-steel-sky/index.md): Beneath a Steel Sky is a cyberpunk point-and-click adventure.
- [Beyond the Titanic](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/beyond-the-titanic/index.md): Beyond the Titanic is a text adventure in which you survive the sinking of the Titanic only to find yourself somewhere much stranger.
- [Bio Menace](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/bio-menace/index.md): A side-scrolling shooter on the Commander Keen engine: Snake Logan fights the mutants of Dr. Mangle. Freeware since 2005.
- [Blinky 3](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/blinky-3/index.md): Blinky 3 is a platform game in which Shnookwad sets out to burn down Funky Forest.
- [Block Man 2](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/block-man-2/index.md): Block Man 2 is a puzzle game in which you move blocks around each room to build a path to the exit.
- [Blockage](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/blockage/index.md): Blockage is a small brick-breaking game: knock out every block on the screen with the ball and don't let it past your paddle.
- [Blocks](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/blocks/index.md): Blocks is a puzzle game in the style of SameGame.
- [Bob the Hamster](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/bob-the-hamster/index.md): Bob the Hamster is a maze game in which Bob digs through the earth collecting food, while rocks fall around him and creatures roam the tunnels.
- [Bounce Comet](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/bounce-comet/index.md): Bounce Comet is a puzzle game in which you steer a bouncing ball around levels of blocks, breaking some, collecting gems and finding the way out.
- [Bounce Zone](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/bounce-zone/index.md): Bounce Zone is a 3D ball game against the computer.
- [Breakout!](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/breakout-silverman/index.md): Breakout! is a simple bat-and-ball game with rainbow-coloured rows of bricks to knock out.
- [Bricks](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/bricks/index.md): Bricks is a brick-breaking game in the style of Breakout and Arkanoid, with power-ups that fall from the bricks you destroy.
- [C-Dogs](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/c-dogs/index.md): C-Dogs is a top-down action game for one or two players.
- [California Games](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/california-games/index.md): California Games swaps Epyx's Olympic events for the beach.
- [Cash Invaders](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/cash-invaders/index.md): Cash Invaders is a twist on Space Invaders in which the aliens carry numbers and you have to shoot them in the right order.
- [Castle Adventure](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/castle-adventure/index.md): Castle Adventure is one of the earliest graphical adventures on the PC.
- [Castle Master](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/castle-master/index.md): Castle Master is a first-person adventure in solid 3D, built with Incentive's Freescape engine.
- [Caves of Thor](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/caves-of-thor/index.md): Caves of Thor is the first part of Todd Replogle's Thor trilogy, an early Apogee adventure drawn in text-mode graphics.
- [Centiped'em](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/centiped-em/index.md): Centiped'em is a faithful PC version of Atari's arcade game Centipede, made by CHAMP, a hobbyist group known for its free arcade conversions.
- [Charlie the Duck](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/charlie-the-duck/index.md): Charlie the Duck is a side-scrolling platform game in which a duck jumps on enemies, collects coins and finds its way to the end of each level.
- [Chart Wars](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/chart-wars/index.md): Chart Wars is a music industry simulation.
- [Chex Quest](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/chex-quest/index.md): Chex Quest is a family-friendly version of Doom made to promote Chex cereal.
- [Chickie Egg](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/chickie-egg/index.md): Chickie Egg is a 3D take on the platform game Chuckie Egg, made by Criterion as a demonstration of its RenderWare engine.
- [Chopper Commando](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/chopper-commando/index.md): Chopper Commando is a side-scrolling helicopter game: fly behind enemy lines, destroy tanks, jets and buildings, and get back to base in one piece.
- [Classic Jumpman](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/classic-jumpman/index.md): Classic Jumpman is a PC version of the 1983 Atari platform game Jumpman.
- [Clone](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/clone/index.md): Clone is a block-pushing puzzle game in the spirit of Sokoban, with colourful graphics and a soundtrack.
- [Clone Invader](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/clone-invader/index.md): Clone Invader is a faithful copy of the arcade game Space Invaders that runs on almost any PC graphics card.
- [Cochese](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/cochese/index.md): Cochese is a puzzle game in which a green blob makes his way through mazes of crates, keys and locked doors to reach the exit, pushing blocks to clear a path.
- [Cosmo Chicken](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/cosmo-chicken/index.md): Cosmo Chicken is a Lunar Lander style game starring a chicken. Flap to steer, watch your food supply, and set down gently on the landing pad.
- [Crime Fighter](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/crime-fighter/index.md): Despite its name, Crime Fighter is about committing crimes.
- [CyberBox](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/cyberbox/index.md): CyberBox is a block-pushing puzzle game in the style of Sokoban. Push every box onto its target without getting one stuck in a corner.
- [Cyberdogs](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/cyberdogs/index.md): Cyberdogs is a top-down shooter for one or two players, the game that C-Dogs grew out of.
- [Dark Woods 2](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/dark-woods-2/index.md): Dark Woods 2 is a role-playing game written in QuickBASIC and drawn in text characters.
- [Daymare 2](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/daymare-2/index.md): Daymare 2 is a fantasy role-playing game that Jim Todd wrote for the shareware market between 1990 and 1993.
- [Dedale](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/dedale/index.md): Dedale is a maze game. You find your way out of a series of mazes that grow larger and more twisted with each level, scoring points for every one you escape.
- [Deep 2](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/deep-2/index.md): Deep 2 is an action game from ALO-Soft.
- [Digger Remastered](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/digger-remastered/index.md): Digger is a 1983 arcade game from Windmill Software in which you tunnel through the earth collecting emeralds and gold while monsters chase you.
- [Diggory](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/diggory/index.md): Diggory is a digging game about a mole-like creature who lives on magic mushrooms and doombug eggs.
- [DND](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/dnd/index.md): DND is a text-mode role-playing game inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.
- [Donald Duck's Playground](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/donald-ducks-playground/index.md): Donald Duck's Playground is a children's game in which Donald takes jobs around Duckburg to earn money for new playground equipment for his nephews.
- [Doom, the Roguelike](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/doom-the-roguelike/index.md): Doom, the Roguelike turns Doom into a turn-based dungeon crawl.
- [Drugwars](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/drugwars/index.md): Drugwars is a text-mode trading game: buy low, sell high and pay off a loan shark across 30 days in New York, while the police and rival dealers chase you.
- [Duck Hunt](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/duck-hunt/index.md): Duck Hunt is a small shooting game from ALO-Soft in which you aim at ducks as they fly across the screen.
- [Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/dune-ii/index.md): Dune II is the game that set the pattern for real-time strategy.
- [Dungeon Master](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/dungeon-master/index.md): Dungeon Master is a real-time dungeon crawler.
- [Electranoid](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/electranoid/index.md): Electranoid is a brick-breaking game in the style of Arkanoid, with power-ups and many levels of bricks to clear.
- [Elite](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/elite/index.md): Elite is the open-ended space trading game.
- [Eliza](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/eliza/index.md): Eliza is a DOS version of the 1960s program that holds a conversation by playing a psychotherapist and turning what you type back into questions.
- [Escape from the ASCII Trolls](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/escape-from-the-ascii-trolls/index.md): Escape from the ASCII Trolls is a small text-mode game written in Turbo Pascal, in which you stay ahead of the trolls drawn in ASCII characters.
- [Executioners](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/executioners/index.md): Executioners is a gory action game from Bloodlust Software, the team behind Timeslaughter.
- [Executive Suite](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/executive-suite/index.md): Executive Suite is a business simulation about climbing the corporate ladder.
- [Flashback](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/flashback/index.md): Flashback is a cinematic platform adventure.
- [Flight of the Amazon Queen](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/flight-of-the-amazon-queen/index.md): Flight of the Amazon Queen is a comic point-and-click adventure in the spirit of Indiana Jones.
- [Football Fanatic](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/football-fanatic/index.md): Football Fanatic is a football (soccer) management game. You run a club's team, transfers and finances over a season.
- [Fowl Play](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/fowl-play/index.md): Fowl Play is an early arcade game with CGA graphics, played with the arrow keys or a joystick.
- [Fracas](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/fracas/index.md): Fracas is a Bomberman-style game: drop bombs in a maze of blocks to blast walls, collect power-ups and catch the other players in your explosions.
- [Frogger](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/frogger/index.md): Frogger is the PC version of Sega's arcade game.
- [Galactic Battle](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/galactic-battle/index.md): Galactic Battle is a space shooter in the style of Galaxian.
- [Giana Sisters 32K](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/giana-sisters-32k/index.md): Giana Sisters 32K is a tiny remake of The Great Giana Sisters, squeezed into 32 kilobytes for a demoscene competition.
- [God of Thunder](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/god-of-thunder/index.md): God of Thunder is a top-down action adventure in which Thor sets out to defeat Loki across three episodes.
- [Gods](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/gods/index.md): Gods is a platform game in which a Greek hero climbs four worlds of a city taken over by monsters, to win a place among the gods.
- [Goferpop](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/goferpop/index.md): Goferpop is a whack-a-mole game with the mouse.
- [Grandmaster Chess](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/grandmaster-chess/index.md): Grandmaster Chess is a chess program with a choice of 2D and 3D boards and sets, from glass and marble to robots and monsters.
- [Gravity Force](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/gravity-force/index.md): Gravity Force is a cave-flying game for two players, in the tradition of Thrust and the Amiga's Gravity Force.
- [Grid Poker](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/grid-poker/index.md): Grid Poker is a card puzzle: place cards one at a time on a five-by-five grid and score the poker hands each row and column makes.
- [Gripple](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/gripple/index.md): Gripple is a small logic puzzle based on an old pocket toy of the same name. Its author released it as freeware in 1991.
- [Helious](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/helious/index.md): Helious is a puzzle game with a title screen drawn from Van Gogh's Starry Night.
- [Hero's Heart](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/heros-heart/index.md): Hero's Heart is a puzzle game from Everett Kaser, the author of Sherlock. This is the shareware version.
- [Heroes](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/heroes/index.md): Heroes is a fast multiplayer game in the style of Tron and Snake: steer a vehicle that leaves a trail behind it and make the others crash into it.
- [Holiday Serpent](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/holiday-serpent/index.md): Holiday Serpent is a worm game that turns through a full 360 degrees on a large scrolling playfield, with SVGA graphics.
- [Humbug](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/humbug/index.md): Humbug is a comic text adventure by Graham Cluley, who later became known as a computer security writer.
- [In the Dead of Night](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/in-the-dead-of-night/index.md): In the Dead of Night is a detective adventure in which private investigator Tom Scool is drawn into a mystery.
- [Inner Worlds](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/inner-worlds/index.md): Inner Worlds is a side-scrolling platform game with a werewolf-like hero who can change shape.
- [Invaders 1978](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/invaders-1978/index.md): Invaders 1978 is a careful recreation of the original Space Invaders arcade game, written in QuickBASIC.
- [Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/jazz-jackrabbit-holiday-hare/index.md): A Christmas edition of Jazz Jackrabbit, the fast platform game with a green rabbit and a blaster. Shareware from Epic MegaGames.
- [Jetman](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/jetman/index.md): Jetman is a PC remake of the ZX Spectrum game Jetpac.
- [Jetpack](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/jetpack/index.md): Jetpack is a platform puzzle game in the spirit of Lode Runner.
- [Jumpjet](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/jumpjet/index.md): Jumpjet is an early shareware arcade game in which you fly a jump jet low over a line-drawn mountain range, shooting what you find on the ground.
- [Jumpman Lives!](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/jumpman-lives/index.md): Jumpman Lives! is a PC remake of Jumpman, with new levels to climb through as you defuse bombs.
- [Ken's Labyrinth](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/kens-labyrinth/index.md): Ken's Labyrinth is a first-person shooter set in a maze, written by a teenage Ken Silverman before he made the Build engine used by Duke Nukem 3D.
- [Kroz](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/kroz/index.md): Kroz is a series of text-mode action adventures by Scott Miller, the games that launched Apogee.
- [Lamers](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/lamers/index.md): Lamers is a parody of Lemmings in which the little walkers are computer "lamers".
- [Larax and Zaco](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/larax-and-zaco/index.md): An unusual platform game from Italy: place bombs of different strengths to bring down buildings and clear each level.
- [Lawn Mower](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/lawn-mower/index.md): Lawn Mower asks you to cut six and a half acres of lawn before a party.
- [Legend of Saladir](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/legend-of-saladir/index.md): Legend of Saladir is a roguelike role-playing game with a world map, towns and dungeons. This is version 0.34, the last of its releases.
- [Lethal Tender (Demo)](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/lethal-tender-demo/index.md): Lethal Tender is a first-person shooter in which an agent tracks the terrorist Thorne Devereaux to a mining camp in the Sierra Madre mountains.
- [Letter Targets](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/letter-targets/index.md): Letter Targets is a word puzzle game: guess the hidden phrase one letter at a time, and lose a credit for each letter that isn't in it.
- [Leygref's Castle](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/leygrefs-castle/index.md): Leygref's Castle is a fantasy adventure set in a castle of eight levels, each an eight by eight grid of rooms.
- [Liero](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/liero/index.md): Liero is a real-time take on Worms for two players on a split screen.
- [Lunatix: The Insanity Circle](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/lunatix/index.md): Lunatix: The Insanity Circle is a piece of interactive fiction, a text adventure in which you type what to do.
- [Lure of the Temptress](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/lure-of-the-temptress/index.md): Revolution Software's first point-and-click adventure, in which Diermot sets out to free a town from a sorceress. Now freeware.
- [MAG (Mike's Adventure Game)](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/mag/index.md): MAG is a text-mode dungeon crawler in the tradition of Rogue. It is freeware and comes with its source code.
- [Majik](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/majik/index.md): Majik is a small dungeon game in which a wizard heads into dark caverns. It was written in Turbo Pascal and sold as shareware.
- [Major Stryker](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/major-stryker/index.md): Major Stryker is a vertically scrolling shooter by Allen Blum.
- [Marshmallow Duel](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/marshmallow-duel/index.md): Marshmallow Duel is a two-player fight between little figures on platforms over a sea of marshmallow.
- [Math Castle](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/math-castle/index.md): Math Castle is an educational game in which you answer arithmetic questions to make your way through a castle.
- [Meteor](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/meteor/index.md): Meteor is an action game played across mission maps, such as a farm where you need a swipe card to reach the command centre.
- [Micropede](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/micropede/index.md): Micropede is a mouse-controlled shooter in the style of the arcade games Centipede and Millipede.
- [Mindgames Collection](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/mindgames-collection/index.md): Mindgames is a collection of 18 small puzzle and board games, run from one menu.
- [Miner VGA](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/miner-vga/index.md): Miner VGA is a mining game: dig for ore, sell it in town and spend the money on tools that let you dig deeper.
- [Minesweeper](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/minesweeper/index.md): A DOS version of Minesweeper: clear the grid without stepping on a mine, using the numbers to work out where they are.
- [Monuments of Mars](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/monuments-of-mars/index.md): Monuments of Mars is a platform puzzle game set inside the alien structures on the surface of Mars.
- [Mortar Mayhem](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/mortar-mayhem/index.md): Mortar Mayhem is an artillery game in which players take turns lobbing shells at each other over hills and terrain.
- [Mr. Boom](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/mr-boom/index.md): Mr. Boom is a Bomberman-style game for up to eight players. Lay bombs, blast through walls and trap your friends in the explosions.
- [MyMan](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/myman/index.md): MyMan is a Pac-Man style maze game drawn entirely in text characters. Eat every dot while the ghosts chase you.
- [Mysterious Song](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/mysterious-song/index.md): Mysterious Song is a console-style role-playing game written in QuickBASIC, one of the best-known games of the QBasic scene.
- [NetHack](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/nethack/index.md): NetHack is one of the classic roguelikes.
- [Nibbler](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/nibbler/index.md): Nibbler is a snake game.
- [Pango](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pango/index.md): Pango is a PC version of Sega's arcade game Pengo. A penguin pushes blocks of ice through a maze to crush the creatures chasing it.
- [Paperboy 2](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/paperboy-2/index.md): Paperboy 2 sends the paperboy, or now the papergirl, back out on the bike.
- [PC Logo](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pc-logo/index.md): PC Logo is a version of Logo, the programming language made for teaching.
- [PC*Bert](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pc-bert/index.md): PC*Bert is a PC version of the arcade game Q*bert.
- [Peach's Dream](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/peachs-dream/index.md): Peach's Dream is a side-scrolling action game with hand-drawn backgrounds.
- [Perestroika](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/perestroika/index.md): Perestroika is a Soviet arcade game in which you hop from one sinking lily pad to the next to collect flags before your enemies catch you.
- [Permanent Daylight](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/permanent-daylight/index.md): A short freeware point-and-click adventure made with Adventure Game Studio, played like the old Sierra adventures.
- [Pharaoh's Tomb](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pharaohs-tomb/index.md): Pharaoh's Tomb is a platform puzzle game in which Nevada Smith explores an Egyptian pyramid, one screen at a time, for its treasure.
- [Pizza Worm](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pizza-worm/index.md): Pizza Worm is a snake game in which you guide a worm to slices of pizza while it grows longer.
- [Pong Kombat](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pong-kombat/index.md): Pong Kombat is a parody that crosses Pong with Mortal Kombat. Win a game of Pong, then finish your opponent with a fatality.
- [PowBall](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/powball/index.md): PowBall is a brick-breaking game in the style of Arkanoid, with power-ups and a level editor.
- [Ragnarok](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/ragnarok/index.md): Ragnarok is a roguelike set in Norse mythology. You can transform into the creatures you meet, and the gods watch what you do.
- [Retro Games](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/retro-games/index.md): Retro Games is a collection of simple games based on early arcade and home games, run from one menu.
- [Rimtrix](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/rimtrix/index.md): Rimtrix is a puzzle game written for the British magazine PC Plus, which put it in the public domain with its January 1989 issue.
- [Risk](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/risk/index.md): Risk is the computer version of the board game of world conquest.
- [Robbo](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/robbo/index.md): Robbo is a puzzle game in which a small robot collects screws and finds its way to the escape capsule on each level.
- [Roboman](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/roboman/index.md): Roboman is a platform game in the style of Jumpman.
- [Rogue](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/rogue/index.md): Rogue is the game that named a genre: explore randomly made dungeon levels drawn in text characters, fight monsters and find the Amulet of Yendor.
- [Rollo and the Brush Brothers](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/rollo-and-the-brush-brothers/index.md): Rollo and the Brush Brothers is a maze game in the style of Make Trax.
- [Santaman](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/santaman/index.md): Santaman is a Christmas arcade game from Dem Innovations.
- [Satori](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/satori/index.md): Satori is a solitaire tile-matching game with EGA and VGA graphics. Its author asked for no registration and let it be shared freely.
- [Scrambled Eggs](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/scrambled-eggs/index.md): Scrambled Eggs is a puzzle game in the style of Puzzle Bobble: fire eggs at the cluster above you and match colours to clear it.
- [Sea Run](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/sea-run/index.md): Sea Run is a puzzle game: turn the wind arrows on the board to build a path that keeps your boat sailing for as long as possible before it reaches a dead end.
- [Sherlock](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/sherlock/index.md): Sherlock is a logic puzzle: use the clues to work out where every picture belongs in a six-by-six grid.
- [Sid Meier's Pirates!](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/pirates/index.md): Pirates! lets you live a whole career as a privateer in the 17th-century Caribbean.
- [Ski Jump International v3](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/ski-jump-international/index.md): Ski Jump International is a ski jumping game. Time your take-off and keep your balance in the air for the longest jump, in competitions across many hills.
- [Ski King](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/ski-king/index.md): Ski King is a downhill skiing game inspired by a BASIC game its author played on the Atari 800.
- [SkyRoads](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/skyroads/index.md): SkyRoads is a 3D racing game: steer a hovering ship along roads in space, jump the gaps and manage your fuel and oxygen.
- [Sleuth](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/sleuth/index.md): Sleuth is a murder mystery in text characters.
- [Snipes](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/snipes/index.md): Snipes is a text-mode maze shooter.
- [Sopwith](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/sopwith/index.md): Sopwith is a side-view biplane game: fly a Sopwith Camel over the landscape, bomb the enemy's buildings and shoot down their planes.
- [Spryjinx](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/spryjinx/index.md): Spryjinx is a beta of a puzzle game that its author let be freely distributed. It comes with a sprite editor and a board editor.
- [Spych](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/spych/index.md): Spych is a Polish take on Sokoban: push the crates onto their targets in as few moves as you can.
- [Styx](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/styx/index.md): Styx is Windmill Software's take on Qix.
- [Supaplex](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/supaplex/index.md): Supaplex is a puzzle game in the style of Boulder Dash, set inside a computer.
- [Super Xonix](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/super-xonix/index.md): Super Xonix is a 256-colour version of the classic Xonix: cut across the board to claim parts of it while the balls bouncing around try to hit your line.
- [TeenAgent](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/teenagent/index.md): TeenAgent is a comic point-and-click adventure from Poland. A teenager is recruited as a secret agent to find out who is stealing the world's gold.
- [Telengard](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/telengard/index.md): Telengard is a dungeon crawler with fifty levels of randomly built corridors.
- [Text Missile Command](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/text-missile-command/index.md): Text Missile Command is a version of Missile Command drawn in text characters. Defend your cities from incoming missiles.
- [The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/maddog-williams/index.md): Maddog Williams is a graphic adventure in the style of Sierra's games of the time.
- [The Ancient Art of War](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-ancient-art-of-war/index.md): The Ancient Art of War is a real-time strategy game drawn from Sun Tzu.
- [The Black Cauldron](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-black-cauldron/index.md): The Black Cauldron is an adventure based on the Disney film.
- [The Black Orb](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-black-orb/index.md): The Black Orb is an EGA action maze game. Guide your hero through each level, collecting keys and amulets and avoiding what moves around the maze.
- [The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-elder-scrolls-ii-daggerfall/index.md): The second Elder Scrolls game, with one of the largest worlds ever made. Bethesda released it as freeware in 2009.
- [The Elder Scrolls: Arena](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-elder-scrolls-arena/index.md): The first Elder Scrolls game, an open-world role-playing game across all of Tamriel. Bethesda released it as freeware in 2004.
- [The Kingdom of Syree](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-kingdom-of-syree/index.md): The Kingdom of Syree is a tile-based role-playing game in the style of the early Ultima games.
- [The Lost Vikings](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/the-lost-vikings/index.md): The Lost Vikings is a puzzle platformer about three Vikings snatched from home by an alien collector.
- [Tom and Jerry](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/tom-and-jerry/index.md): Tom and Jerry is a platform game in which Jerry runs through worlds of levels, throwing marbles at enemies and collecting cheese, with Tom never far behind.
- [Top Hat Willy](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/top-hat-willy/index.md): Top Hat Willy is a platform game in the tradition of Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy. Collect every item on the screen and avoid the enemies on their fixed paths.
- [Trick Blast](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/trick-blast/index.md): Trick Blast is a freeware game made with DIV Games Studio.
- [Triplane Turmoil](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/triplane-turmoil/index.md): Triplane Turmoil is a side-view air combat game set in the First World War.
- [Troll's Tale](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/trolls-tale/index.md): Troll's Tale is a picture adventure for young children.
- [TypingMaster Games](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/typingmaster-games/index.md): TypingMaster Games is a set of four typing games: WordTris, NumberFall, KeyMan and Reaction.
- [Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/ultima-i/index.md): Ultima I sends you to stop the wizard Mondain, who has made himself immortal with the Gem of Immortality.
- [UrthWurm](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/urthwurm/index.md): UrthWurm is a one-button game: hold the space bar to make the worm rise and let go to make it dive, and guide it through ten levels.
- [Vampiric Tower](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/vampiric-tower/index.md): Vampiric Tower is a puzzle game in which you collect every blood vial on a floor of the tower to open its door.
- [Vectoroids](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/vectoroids/index.md): Vectoroids is an Asteroids game with 3D vector graphics and real physics for the ship and the rocks.
- [Velcro Mind](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/velcro-mind/index.md): Velcro Mind is a small mouse-driven puzzle game with 256-colour VGA graphics. It is freeware.
- [VGA Kix](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/vga-kix/index.md): A public domain version of the arcade game Qix: claim the board by drawing lines while the enemy tries to catch them.
- [Vlak](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/vlak/index.md): A Czech puzzle game: drive a train around each level to collect every wagon, without hitting the train behind you.
- [WESP](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/wesp/index.md): WESP is a game of jumps. You move a man around the board with the arrow keys, holding Shift to jump an extra square, and plan your route through ten levels.
- [Worm Wars 3](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/worm-wars-3/index.md): Worm Wars 3 is a snake game for several players.
- [WormWorld](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/wormworld/index.md): WormWorld is a snake game. You steer a worm around the levels eating food and growing longer, and you lose a life if you hit a wall or yourself.
- [X-Fighter](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/x-fighter/index.md): X-Fighter is an arcade game played on a grid of blocks, with the score, high score and level shown in a panel beside the playfield.
- [Xargon](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/xargon/index.md): Xargon is a side-scrolling platform game by Allen Pilgrim.
- [Xenon 2: Megablast](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/xenon-2-megablast/index.md): Xenon 2: Megablast is a vertical shooter through five levels of organic, fossil-filled worlds.
- [Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/xenophage/index.md): Xenophage is a one-on-one fighting game between alien creatures, with gory finishing moves.
- [Xerix](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/xerix/index.md): Xerix is a 256-colour space shooter: guide your ship through a strange world and destroy or avoid what gets in the way.
- [XQuest](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/xquest/index.md): XQuest is a mouse-controlled arcade game in the style of Crystal Quest.
- [YABOG](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/yabog/index.md): YABOG (Yet Another Break-Out Game) is a brick-breaking game with special blocks and a level editor for making your own boards.
- [Zyll](https://emulationking.com/microsoft/ms-dos/games/zyll/index.md): Zyll is a text adventure for one or two players.