Retro Games

30 Forgotten Windows Games You’ll Want to Install Immediately

Remember these? Thirty forgotten and overlooked Windows-era PC games that deserve another look, from racing oddities to strategy classics and weird adventures.

Your PC Isn’t Really “Running” That Old Game: What an Emulator Actually Does

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Old Games Really WERE Harder But Not for the Reason You Think

Old games often were harder than modern games, but difficulty wasn't always the goal. Economics, storage limits and design conventions had a lot to do with it.

We Used to Write Save Passwords on Paper. Now Your Game Follows You Around the World

From passwords scribbled in notebooks to memory cards, hard drives and Steam Cloud, here's how saving a game evolved over four decades.

15 PC Games From the ’90s That Are Somehow Still Better Than Most New Games

Doom, Fallout, StarCraft, Half-Life and more: 15 PC classics from the 1990s that remain genuinely worth playing today.

Road Rash Is 35 Years Old — So Why Does It Still Feel Ridiculously Fast?

Road Rash was released in 1991, yet its motorcycle races can still feel astonishingly fast. Here’s how a 16-bit game pulled off the illusion.