DOSGames.com has been online for 25 years as of January 2024! To put this into context, this site was founded seven years before Twitter, six years before YouTube, five years before Facebook, and only a couple of months after Google incorporated!
The website was founded in early January 1999. I originally started the website because back then, DOS games were becoming increasingly difficult to find. There were few other websites focused solely on DOS games. So I started one, since I loved playing the games that I grew up playing. Back in those days, there was no DOSBox, so sometimes even getting the games running was a chore involving carefully tweaking settings.
Today, the website receives around a quarter million page views per month and serves up around a million AdSense ad impressions monthly. It features over 2,000 free games hosted locally, the details about which are stored in a MySQL database. More about DOSGames.com’s history.