Old PC Gaming
Old PC Gaming.
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The Windows FreeCell Game That Kept Office Workers Busy for 20 Years
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
FreeCell started on a 1978 PLATO mainframe, conquered every Windows desktop for two decades, then vanished in Windows 8, triggering surprisingly loud complaints.
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How PC Software Collections Introduced a Generation to Canasta
Sunday, July 26, 2026
Bundled card-game software like Hoyle Card Games introduced a whole generation to canasta. Here's how those CD collections kept the game alive.
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How Digital Checkers Grew From DOS Shareware to Eleven Online Variants
Thursday, July 23, 2026
From Arthur Samuel's 1962 IBM checkers AI to eleven online rulesets, here's how digital checkers grew from shareware curiosity to a global game family.
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How Tic Tac Toe Became One of the First Games Computers Learned to Play
Monday, July 20, 2026
How a 1952 Cambridge experiment turned tic tac toe into the world's first graphical computer game and a cornerstone of early AI research.
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The Card Game That Shipped With Every Windows PC and Still Holds up
Friday, July 17, 2026
Microsoft bundled Solitaire with Windows 3.0 to teach mouse skills, and it became the world's most-played game. Here's how, and what to play next.
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Mortalus: The Quest for Immortality
Saturday, June 1, 2019
This Myst clone would have been something spectacular if it had come out immediately after the original Myst. Instead, it’s just one in a long line of immersive quest games with a fondness for logic puzzles that involve cogs (there’s something rustic and old-fashioned about logic puzzles using cogs), and Mortalus has ’em in spades. […]
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Tony Hawk’s Underground 2
Friday, May 31, 2019
Back in 1999, there’s no way anyone could’ve predicted the success of the Tony Hawk series. Five sequels, and a slight genre change later, it’s now Tony Hawk’s Underground 2, also known as THUG 2. Where the first four games just added new moves, larger parks, and the possibility for nearly endless combos, the first […]
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Worldwide Soccer Manager 2006
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Sports Interactive has bought Worldwide Soccer Manager a long way since the early days, implementing a visual match engine as the main highlight since. Football Manager 2006 admittedly doesn’t improve much over its predecessors, the main reason being that 2005’s effort was pretty good to try and top. The 2006 build improves upon an already […]
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London Racer
Sunday, May 26, 2019
London Racer is an arcade game which lets you compete against other stock cars in circuits spread around various European cities. The idea of racing around urban centers in everyday city cars isn’t new. But the meager traffic you do encounter here is nowhere near as bustling or lively as that seen in Midtown Madness […]
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Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy
Saturday, May 25, 2019
With its initially conventional third-person console action and hacky sci-fi, you might as well call this one Console Ops: The Generic Action Title. But while there’s definitely little here to make Psi-Ops a game worthy of remembering throughout the ages, it does have some interesting (and dare I say original) gimmicks to elevate it beyond […]
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