Mel Odius Goes Six-String Searchin' (In-browser, DOS, Worwyk Software, 1992)

You can play it in your browser here, or if in-browser emulation isn't working yet, you can download it as a .zip file here and run it in this alternate in-browser emulator.

Tips for that alternate emulator: for this game, choose any item on the list you're given, then on the next screen, replace the line under AUTOEXEC with these three lines with nothing in between (click the line to start editing; press enter to add second line):

CD MELODIUS

PLAYGAME

Another tip: if the alternate emulator's page is blank, refresh it properly with Ctrl-F5.

The developer, Worwyk, went on to become a heavy metal band that's still active; its website is here.

Videogame Previews (Videos, 1991-2008)

You can watch almost 2200 promo videos, including a ton not originally available to the public, here.

Barbie Super Model (DOS, Tahoe Software Productions & Bonsai Entertainment, 1993)

You can play it in your browser here, or if in-browser emulation isn't working yet, you can download it as a .zip file here and run it in this alternate in-browser emulator.

Tips for that alternate emulator: for this game, choose any item on the list you're given, then on the next screen, replace the line under AUTOEXEC with these three lines with nothing in between (click the line to start editing; press enter to add second and third lines):

CD BARBIESU

CD BARBIE

BARBIE

Another tip: if the alternate emulator's page is blank, refresh it properly with Ctrl-F5.

Barbie (DOS, Imagineering Inc., 1992)

You can play it in your browser here, or if in-browser emulation isn't working yet, you can download it as a .zip file here and run it in this alternate in-browser emulator.

Tips for that alternate emulator: for this game, choose 'cga' or 'ega', and replace the line under AUTOEXEC with these two lines with nothing in between (click the line to start editing; press enter to add second line):

CD BARBIE

GAME

Another tip: if the alternate emulator's page is blank, refresh it properly with Ctrl-F5.

Linéo (Windows, Jonathan Buron, 2006)

You can download it here. Description on page includes instructions for running it on modern systems (Windows 7 onwards).

Tips: You can change the language from French in the options menu. When quitting, you'll need to click the game screen a couple of times to get past the credits.

Al Bunny's Typing Class (Windows 3.1, Sunmoon USA, 1995)

You can download it here. You'll need to drag it onto otvdm.exe from here to run it on 64-bit Windows. (If it comes up with an interrupt message, just click Continue.)

Pluck My Tash (Flash, Jonti "Mr. Weebl" Picking & Rob Manuel, 2003)

You can play it in your browser here (might need Ruffle; click it to start it properly) or here.

Sugar Crash (Flash, Pizmo Games, 2005)

You can play this satirical Flash browser game here (Ruffle may be required) or here.

Tip: Successive bounces send the kid higher. Don't forget to send him to bed when his blood sugar starts getting high! if 'gloom' is keeping you from seeing anything, send the kid into it to chase it away.

Hand Jibe (Flash, Pizmo Games, 2004)

You can play it in your browser here (Ruffle may be required) or here. If music doesn't play on the title screen, clicking anywhere on the game should start it.

Tips: the game doesn't punish non-clearing clicks. If tiles stop falling following a Hand Jibe, just wait until time runs out and the level ends; tiles will start falling again in the next level.

Mind Reader (Flash, Pizmo Games, ~2004)

You can play it in your browser here (Ruffle may be required) - you may need to click it first to get it started. Alternatively, use the Flashpoint project's browser interface 9o3o here (where you'll need to click the 'Open in a new tab' button.

Worlds of Power: Blaster Master (Book, Peter Lerangis aka A.L. Singer, 1990)

You can download it here (as WorldsOfPower-BlasterMaster1990.epub).

The game was treated as canon by the PS1 game Blaster Master: Blasting Again; the author would not discover this until being interviewed about the book over twenty years later.

Joystiq (Website, 2004-2015)

You can visit it via the Wayback Machine here.

Tip: you can use arrows on the top bar that appears to go forward and backward through individual captures; the months above them and years below them can be used to make bigger leaps.

Inwordz (Flash, Gabriel Jensen, ~2004)

You can play it in your browser here (Ruffle probably required), or at the Flashpoint project's browser interface 9o3o here.

Tip: selected tiles don't need to be adjacent.

Character Disorder (Flash, homokaasu.org, ~2001-2002)

You can play it in your browser here - you'll probably need to install the Flash emulator Ruffle first. Includes a tutorial.

You can play some more of the developer's games here at flashmuseum.org - one of the big two Flash archives along with Flashpoint (many of whose games you can play in your browser at ooooooooo.ooo).

Tip: an empty block corresponds to the Space bar.

Hi-Octane (DOS, Bullfrog Productions, 1995)

You can download it for use in DOSBox here, or download it pre-packaged with it (or, alternatively, emulated PS1 and Saturn versions) here.

Front Ball (C64, 1994)

You can play it in your browser here. Controls include numpad 84620. I recommend reading the in-game instructions. There's a trainer (cheat) screen at the start.

The On-Line Letter/The Sierra Newsletter/The Sierra News Magazine/InterAction Magazine (Sierra, 1981/1987-1999)

You can read them here, or alternatively here.