It's completely legal to explore vast swaths of the history of PC gaming without paying a dime. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for ...

DOS_deck is a new way to play classic games released for the MS-DOS operating system on the Steam Deck or PC browser with a controller. The UI follows the look and feel of the Steam Deck interface. So ...

You hear it said all the time: one of the best reasons to own a Steam Deck is for emulating classic games. The Steam Deck is fundamentally a PC, but despite this, you'll rarely hear anyone talk about ...

Oldie but goldie: In recent years, retro gaming has turned into big business. Home consoles have somewhat adopted a backward-compatible approach, and PC-focused initiatives such as GOG have infused ...

Some of the best games from the 80s and 90s ran on DOS, but due to architecture changes, are completely unavailable on modern operating systems. This is how I play them today, and how you can too. How ...

GTA: Vice City originally released on the PlayStation 2, but it eventually made its way to the PC and Xbox. In other GTA-related news, back in November, Rockstar announced that GTA VI won't release ...

Simulate the authentic 1990s PC gaming experience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I love crisp pixel art, but when you're ...

Classic gaming is important to Ziggurat Gaming CEO Wade Rosen – so much so that he has made it his publisher’s primary mission to collect some of the best classic PC, DOS, and other titles from the ...

The games from these websites are some of the best and worst of the past, so dig in and you are certain to find a few gems that are playable for many years to come. If you want to play old DOS games, ...

Chris Drumm is a lifelong gamer with a BA in English writing and years of experience writing articles and news online. He's played hundreds of games in dozens of genres, enjoyed them all, and put more ...

PC-104 is a standard computer form factor that most people outside of industrial settings probably haven’t seen before. It’s essentially an Intel 486 processor with lots of support for standards that ...