Windows Top Games
Windows became the PC gaming system with Windows 95 and DirectX in 1995, and 3D graphics cards soon followed. Online play and full 3D worlds arrived with it, from Half-Life, StarCraft and Diablo II to The Sims and Age of Empires II.
11524 games available on Windows
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DOS was the PC system from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, the years of shareware, floppy disks and Sound Blaster music. Its games run from Commander Keen platformers to Doom, X-COM, Monkey Island and detailed flight and war simulations.
7495 games available on DOS
Browse popular DOS gamesCommodore 64 Top Games
The Commodore 64 came out in 1982 and became the best-selling home computer of the 1980s, with a SID chip that gave it the best music of its time. Games came on cassette and floppy, from The Last Ninja and Turrican to Impossible Mission and Maniac Mansion.
4584 games available on Commodore 64
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Commodore’s Amiga, released in 1985, led 16-bit home computing into the early 1990s with smooth scrolling and stereo sound. Its library leans on fast, stylish action and clever design, like Turrican II, Shadow of the Beast, Lemmings and Sensible World of Soccer.
2865 games available on Amiga
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Arcade cabinets led video games from the 1970s into the 1990s, each board built for one game and tuned to take coins. Play is short, hard and made for high scores, from Pac-Man and Space Invaders to Street Fighter II and Metal Slug.
2403 games available on Arcade
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Sinclair’s ZX Spectrum, launched in 1982, brought cheap color computing to British homes, with a rubber keyboard and games on cassette. Bedroom coders made odd, inventive games for it despite its color clash, like Manic Miner, Knight Lore and Head over Heels.
2338 games available on ZX Spectrum
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Apple’s Macintosh reached the market in 1984 and put the mouse and a graphical desktop in front of home users. Point-and-click adventures, puzzles and strategy suit it best, with Mac-first titles like Myst, Marathon and Escape Velocity next to many PC ports.
2270 games available on Mac
Browse popular Mac gamesAmstrad CPC Top Games
The Amstrad CPC, first sold in 1984, was a European all-in-one computer sold with its own monitor and a tape or disk drive built in. Colorful arcade ports and French action and adventure games are what it does best, like Gryzor, Rick Dangerous and Prince of Persia.
1992 games available on Amstrad CPC
Browse popular Amstrad CPC gamesAtari 8-bit Top Games
Atari’s 8-bit computers, from the 400 and 800 in 1979, had strong graphics and sound chips for their time. They hosted early classics of space flight, strategy and puzzles, such as Star Raiders, M.U.L.E., Rescue on Fractalus! and Boulder Dash.
1599 games available on Atari 8-bit
Browse popular Atari 8-bit gamesAtari ST Top Games
Atari’s ST arrived in 1985 and was a 16-bit home computer with MIDI ports built in, loved by musicians and players alike. It shared much of the Amiga’s library and had standouts of its own, like Dungeon Master, Starglider, Oids and Carrier Command.
1580 games available on Atari ST
Browse popular Atari ST gamesApple II Top Games
The Apple II, from 1977, was one of the first home computers sold ready to use, with color graphics and floppy disks. Early American game design took shape on it, with Ultima, Wizardry, Karateka, The Oregon Trail and the first Prince of Persia.
1305 games available on Apple II
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Windows 3.x, on sale from 1990, ran on top of DOS and brought the mouse and windows to most PCs. Small casual games played in a window are its heart, like Solitaire, Minesweeper and SkiFree, along with card games, puzzles and the first multimedia CD-ROMs for families.
1273 games available on Windows 3.x
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MSX was a shared home computer standard launched in 1983, built by many Japanese makers and sold in Europe and South America too. Konami did some of its best 8-bit work on MSX cartridges, like Metal Gear, Nemesis and Knightmare, next to many puzzle and role-playing games.
1117 games available on MSX
Browse popular MSX gamesSEGA Saturn Top Games
Sega’s Saturn, released in 1994, was a 32-bit CD console with two processors, strongest in 2D and arcade ports. Shooters, fighting games and Japanese role-playing games make up much of its library, like Panzer Dragoon, NiGHTS into Dreams and Guardian Heroes.
1027 games available on SEGA Saturn
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J2ME, or Java 2 Micro Edition, ran downloadable games on feature phones in the 2000s, before touch smartphones. Made for small screens and a number pad, they offer puzzles, racing, sports and short versions of console series.
989 games available on J2ME
Browse popular J2ME gamesGenesis Top Games
Sega’s Genesis, called Mega Drive outside North America, was a 16-bit console released in 1988 and known for speed and arcade action. Platformers, beat ’em ups, shooters and sports came to it in large numbers, like Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage and Gunstar Heroes.
903 games available on Genesis
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- 3DO: 229 games
- Acorn 32-bit: 87 games
- Adventure Vision: 4 games
- Amiga CD32: 126 games
- Amstrad PCW: 1 game
- APF Imagination Machine: 14 games
- Apple IIgs: 146 games
- Arcadia 2001: 53 games
- Atari 2600: 452 games
- Atari 5200: 2 games
- Atari 7800: 53 games
- Bally Astrocade: 31 games
- BBC Micro: 627 games
- BeOS: 7 games
- BlackBerry: 32 games
- BREW: 67 games
- Buzztime Home Trivia System: 4 games
- Commodore 128: 1 game
- Casio Loopy: 11 games
- Casio PV-1000: 12 games
- Casio PV-2000: 10 games
- CD-i: 204 games
- CDTV: 59 games
- Channel F: 28 games
- ClickStart: 13 games
- Coleco Adam: 1 game
- ColecoVision: 105 games
- Commodore 16, Plus/4: 239 games
- Design Master Denshi Mangajuku: 4 games
- Didj: 15 games
- digiBlast: 17 games
- Dingoo: 15 games
- Dragon 32/64: 351 games
- DVD Player: 18 games
- Electron: 347 games
- Epoch Game Pocket Computer: 5 games
- Epoch Super Cassette Vision: 12 games
- ExEn: 46 games
- FM-7: 111 games
- FM Towns: 278 games
- Gakken Compact Vision TV Boy: 6 games
- Game.Com: 20 games
- Game Gear: 363 games
- Game Master: 18 games
- Game Wave: 14 games
- Gizmondo: 25 games
- GoGo TV: 6 games
- GP2X: 2 games
- GP32: 28 games
- Hasbro iON: 5 games
- Hitachi Basic Master Level 3: 4 games
- Hitachi S1: 7 games
- HyperScan: 5 games
- Intellivision: 110 games
- iPod Classic: 54 games
- Jaguar: 69 games
- Leapster: 36 games
- LeapTV: 12 games
- Linux: 123 games
- LJN Video Art: 9 games
- Lynx: 79 games
- Mainframe: 3 games
- Mega Duck: 24 games
- Monon Color: 20 games
- Mophun: 218 games
- MRE: 9 games
- Mitsubishi Multi-8: 2 games
- My Vision: 4 games
- Neo Geo: 119 games
- Neo Geo CD: 87 games
- Neo Geo Pocket: 9 games
- Neo Geo Pocket Color: 71 games
- N-Gage: 62 games
- Nuon: 8 games
- Odyssey 2: 64 games
- OS/2: 5 games
- Palm OS: 57 games
- PC Booter: 150 games
- PC-FX: 55 games
- PC-88: 288 games
- PC-98: 180 games
- Commodore PET/CBM: 2 games
- Pico Beena: 55 games
- Pippin: 18 games
- Playdia: 33 games
- RCA Studio II: 18 games
- SAM Coupé: 18 games
- SEGA 32X: 34 games
- SEGA CD: 61 games
- SEGA Master System: 341 games
- SEGA Pico: 37 games
- SG-1000: 67 games
- Sharp X68000: 278 games
- SMC-777: 36 games
- Socrates: 8 games
- Sord M5: 27 games
- Super A'can: 12 games
- Super Vision 8000: 7 games
- SuperGrafx: 5 games
- Supervision: 66 games
- Symbian: 250 games
- Tiki 100: 3 games
- Tomy Tutor: 9 games
- Toshiba Pasopia: 16 games
- TRS-80: 10 games
- TRS-80 CoCo: 157 games
- TurboGrafx-16: 192 games
- TurboGrafx CD: 346 games
- Vectrex: 25 games
- V.Flash: 10 games
- VIC-20: 661 games
- VideoBrain: 9 games
- VideoNow XP: 2 games
- Videopac+ G7400: 22 games
- VIS: 21 games
- VNDS: 28 games
- Windows Mobile: 114 games
- WonderSwan: 68 games
- WonderSwan Color: 46 games
- XaviXPORT: 5 games
- Zeebo: 56 games
- Zodiac: 12 games
- Zune: 42 games
- ZX81: 122 games