Midway had browser versions of a number of previous arcade titles including Joust, Defender, Defender II (Stargate), Robotron 2084, Sinistar, Bubbles, Spy Hunter, Root Beer Tapper, Rampage and Satan's Hollow. The browser releases were teasers to get folks to buy the various Midway Arcade Treasures volumes. Jeff Vavasour wrote the original Intel-based emulation code for these titles and was involved in the integration to Macromedia Shockwave.

The games were available here circa 2005 (I don't know if they are still playable through the Wayback Machine):

http://www.midway.com/page/ClassicGames.html

You can read more about the Shockwave releases and Jeff Vavasour's DOS and Windows emulations for Digital Eclipse here:

http://www.vavasour.ca/jeff/games.html#shockwave

MrFlibble wrote:

Wolfenstein 3D
A browser version released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the game. Probably one of the more well known examples.

Nice! I like that you can start at any level.

MrFlibble wrote:

Prince of Persia: Special Edition
This is not really a port but rather a new, short promotional browser game based on the original Prince of Persia mechanics and using the Mac version graphics.

It looks better than it plays. The controls and mechanics are not nearly as precise as in the original.

akula65 wrote:

Midway had browser versions of a number of previous arcade titles

Interesting, thanks. I took a jab at MobyGames' browser games list after posting this thread, and found Sinistar but couldn't locate the page where it would've been available.

Sinistar should have been available at the following URLs:

http://www.shockwave.com/sw/content/sinistar
http://www.midway.com/classicGames/sinistar/sinistar.html

I don't recall any of these games being promoted as "downloadable" per se, just available online.

Someone did a browser version of Duke Nukem 3D based on EDuke32:
https://gawen.me/webduke/

PopCorn

Blockout

Here's an interesting example: The Killobyte's Gambit is a modern browser chess game with retro CGA graphics, based on the code of Toledo Atomchess, a text-based open source chess program. The author of Toledo Chess then made a CGA graphics version with the same graphics as The Kilobyte's Gambit. Originally, these graphics were created for a faux/imaginary CGA game based on The Queen's Gambit TV series.

The DOS version even supports composite mode CGA.

Here's a JavaScript version of Vlak, an open source Czech Snake-like game.

Found several more:
Triplane Classic - Triplane Turmoil
OpenRoads - SkyRoads
Armor Alley: Web Prototype
PrinceJS - Prince of Persia
DIMONO - DIMONO

C&C in HTML5 and Javascript.

https://adityaravishankar.github.io/command-and-conquer/

WolverineDK wrote on 2023-02-18, 20:24:

C&C in HTML5 and Javascript.

https://adityaravishankar.github.io/command-and-conquer/

I remember that one, but IIRC it emulates C&C95, so not strictly a DOS game. And the links look to be dead.

Lemmings Remake

Stretch wrote on 2023-02-20, 13:32:

Lemmings Remake

Nice find!