BlackBerry games are not emulated. They are simulated, on the programs BlackBerry gave its own developers — a full phone in a window, which is a better thing than an emulator and is the reason this platform plays at all.
We have 32 BlackBerry games on My Abandonware, from Marble Madness and Diner Dash to N.O.V.A. 3, Angry Birds and Plants vs. Zombies.
Which BlackBerry?
There are two BlackBerrys and they share nothing. The old one ran Java and files end in .cod or .jad. BlackBerry 10, from 2013, ran QNX and its files end in .bar. Each needs its own simulator.
Our downloads often say which they are. Nine of ours are marked BlackBerry 10; others name an older phone — Bold 9000, 8900, 81xx, BBOS 6, BlackBerry 7. Read the file description on the game page before you fetch a simulator, because the wrong one will not open the game at all.
The old phones are also the fussy ones: a game was built for a screen size and a keyboard, so a title marked 8900 wants a simulator of that model or one close to it.
Getting a simulator
BlackBerry is gone and its download site with it. The simulators survive in the Internet Archive and in the collections of the people who keep this platform going.
- BlackBerry OS 4 to 7 (the
.codgames): the smartphone simulator collection on archive.org holds simulators for many models, and there are separate uploads for single phones, such as the 9900 on BlackBerry 7. - BlackBerry 10 (the
.bargames): the BlackBerry 10 Device Simulator is a virtual machine. It needs VMware Player, about 10 GB of disk and a real graphics card — much more work than the old simulators, which are ordinary Windows programs.
The Lunar project collects what is left of BlackBerry and is the place to look when a link above has rotted.
Installing a game
A simulator is a phone, so you install the game into it as you would have on the phone, and then find it in the menu.
The old simulators load a .cod file through their own menu, and some come with a small loader program for the job. A BlackBerry 10 simulator takes a .bar through its development tools, which is the step that makes this platform harder than the others on this site.
Both are slow to set up and quick to use once done. If you only want to see one game, pick an old .cod one: it is a single program, a few clicks, and no virtual machine.
I need help!
We do not provide support for running abandonware games. BlackBerry has a small group keeping its software alive, and no company behind it since 2022.
The Lunar project is the preservation effort for the platform, and the Emulation General Wiki lists every simulator known to still exist, with the archive links.
Checked in October 2026 against each emulator's own documentation and, where it exists, its source code. Game counts and file sizes come from our own catalogue. These guides were drafted with the help of an AI assistant and checked by hand before publishing. If something here is out of date, tell us.