💾 DOS classics

Remakes of the games that lived on office hard drives in the early nineties, usually in a folder called GAMES that nobody admitted to creating. Same charm, same unforgiving difficulty, no emulator, no config.sys. They run in a browser tab and your scores are saved there too.

Expect sharp edges: one hit ends a run, the balls really are that fast, and the wind in Gorillas is exactly as unfair as you remember. House targets are benchmarks we set from playing the remakes; par is a kinder number for the Daily Table.

• Boulder Dash ~5 min · Takes practice· since 1984 Eight caves of gravity, greed and very heavy rocks. Dig out from under one and it falls.
• Firefighter ~5 min · Takes practice A DOS-era flying game where the only thing on fire is the forest, not your calendar.
• Air Mail ~5 min · Takes practice Sopwith-style loops and a delivery route you can actually finish before lunch.
• Xonix ~4 min · Takes practice· since 1984 Claim territory one careful cut at a time. Greed is punished instantly.
• Digger ~5 min · Takes practice· since 1983 The 1983 CGA classic: dig, grab, and never stand under a wobbling bag of gold.
• Paratrooper ~4 min · Takes practice· since 1982 One turret, endless helicopters, and a score that punishes wasted bullets.
• Gorillas ~5 min · Easy to learn· since 1991 The QBasic classic. Pass the keyboard and settle the standup properly.