MS-DOS Game Library

The team at Archive.org seems to have been hard at work at fleshing out their MS-DOS Game Archive, a huge repository of old games that you can now play directly in the browser. I'm also quite intrigued by their hand-picked Showcase of the archive as it features personally familiar titles like Castle Adventure and Commander Keen. Loved those.

The archive serves as a way to feed your own nostalgia but it can also be a nice teaching tool to enlighten new gamers as to what their favorite titles are rooted in. Take this Andy Baio story on raising his kid with retro games first before transitioning into today's world.. this archive could serve as a nice supplement to that experiment. What kid wouldn't want to steer a non-descript block cursor around to fight off ascii dragons??