Skip to contentDOS gaming from the 1980s and early to mid-1990s is an era often overlooked when people talk about early first-person shooters. Everyone thinks FPS only became a thing after Windows and DirectX went mainstream, but that’s far from the truth. DOS was just as good for high-octane FPS action as it was for puzzle and adventure games.To revisit and celebrate this oft-forgotten era of FPS gaming, here are the 15 best DOS FPS games that you must play. You have the classics like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, these are pure shooters with awesome music and loads of bad guys to kill....…Skip to contentDOS gaming from the 1980s and early to mid-1990s is an era often overlooked when people talk about early first-person shooters. Everyone thinks FPS only became a thing after Windows and DirectX went mainstream, but that’s far from the truth. DOS was just as good for high-octane FPS action as it was for puzzle and adventure games.To revisit and celebrate this oft-forgotten era of FPS gaming, here are the 15 best DOS FPS games that you must play. You have the classics like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, these are pure shooters with awesome music and loads of bad guys to kill....WW…

Skip to contentIf there’s one game genre that fell off after the early 2000s, it’s horror. We get the occasional Resident Evil and a couple of semi-decent indie horror games on Steam each year. But nothing like the consistent supply of genuinely spooky games that DOS gamers enjoyed some 30 years ago.And it’s a real shame because modern technology allows developers to do things they could only have dreamed of in the DOS era. Thankfully, you can still play old horror games using emulators such as DOSBox. To help you on your horror journey, here are the 30 best DOS horror games of all time.Top...…Skip to contentIf there’s one game genre that fell off after the early 2000s, it’s horror. We get the occasional Resident Evil and a couple of semi-decent indie horror games on Steam each year. But nothing like the consistent supply of genuinely spooky games that DOS gamers enjoyed some 30 years ago.And it’s a real shame because modern technology allows developers to do things they could only have dreamed of in the DOS era. Thankfully, you can still play old horror games using emulators such as DOSBox. To help you on your horror journey, here are the 30 best DOS horror games of all time.Top...WW…

Skip to contentOne thing that’s missing from modern game consoles is backward compatibility that goes beyond playing games from just one generation ago. Yes, the PlayStation 5 can read and play PS4 discs but it can’t natively play anything from the PS1 to PS3 era. Fortunately, the PS3 does have backward compatibility with both PS1 and PS2 (depending on which PS3 model you have).But why do PS1 games look bad on PS3? The reason for this is an old software-based emulation system that hasn’t been updated in over a decade, combined with upscaling in modern digital TVs. If you want better...…Skip to contentOne thing that’s missing from modern game consoles is backward compatibility that goes beyond playing games from just one generation ago. Yes, the PlayStation 5 can read and play PS4 discs but it can’t natively play anything from the PS1 to PS3 era. Fortunately, the PS3 does have backward compatibility with both PS1 and PS2 (depending on which PS3 model you have).But why do PS1 games look bad on PS3? The reason for this is an old software-based emulation system that hasn’t been updated in over a decade, combined with upscaling in modern digital TVs. If you want better...WW…

Skip to contentIf you’re a 90s kid who owned a PS1, you probably remember playing fully 3D games that looked better than anything else on the market. However, plug a PS1 into a modern TV and you’re faced with blurry graphics that look quite unappealing. It shouldn’t be that surprising, considering we’ve come such a long way since 1995 and have become used to photorealistic AAA games.Why do PS1 games look pixelated? Multiple factors go into this, but it’s primarily a combination of low polygon counts and the console’s video output being designed with CRTs in mind. You can fix the latter by...…Skip to contentIf you’re a 90s kid who owned a PS1, you probably remember playing fully 3D games that looked better than anything else on the market. However, plug a PS1 into a modern TV and you’re faced with blurry graphics that look quite unappealing. It shouldn’t be that surprising, considering we’ve come such a long way since 1995 and have become used to photorealistic AAA games.Why do PS1 games look pixelated? Multiple factors go into this, but it’s primarily a combination of low polygon counts and the console’s video output being designed with CRTs in mind. You can fix the latter by...WW…

Skip to contentOld game consoles are quite fascinating from a technological as well as historical perspective. Back in the 8 and 16-bit era, developers used to write games in assembly language so cartridges could fit them despite having very limited space. Being in assembly meant that the CPU could directly read from the cartridge without the need for an operating system.Since it has no operating system, what happens when you turn on a Gameboy with no game? Depending on the Gameboy variant, you will get a startup screen that either contains the Game Boy phrase or some kind of logo. Even...…Skip to contentOld game consoles are quite fascinating from a technological as well as historical perspective. Back in the 8 and 16-bit era, developers used to write games in assembly language so cartridges could fit them despite having very limited space. Being in assembly meant that the CPU could directly read from the cartridge without the need for an operating system.Since it has no operating system, what happens when you turn on a Gameboy with no game? Depending on the Gameboy variant, you will get a startup screen that either contains the Game Boy phrase or some kind of logo. Even...WW…