Arcade95: Retro Windows

Boot up a tiny Windows 95-style desktop on your iPhone. Open Solitaire, Minesweeper, Pinball, FreeCell, Hearts, Reversi, Paint, Notepad, and even Winamp — hop between them like apps on an old PC, and let retro screensavers take over when you stop playing. A nostalgic workspace that looks and feels exactly the way it did.

Tap the Start button. Drag a window. Long-press the desktop. It all just works, the way it did in '95.

WHAT'S INSIDE
- Klondike Solitaire — draw-three play, score tracking, quick restarts, auto-move support, and the satisfying card-cascade you remember.
- Minesweeper — Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert grids. Long-press to flag, tap to reveal, smiley-face style timer at the top.
- Pinball 95 — the original Space Cadet table, ported natively and tuned for touch. Plunger, flippers, ball-saver, multipliers — all of it.
- FreeCell — full deck, four free cells, four home cells. The Microsoft classic, faithfully ported.
- Hearts — pass three, shoot the moon, dodge the Queen of Spades. Classic Win95 four-player ruleset.
- Calculator — the classic standard-mode calculator with memory keys, square root, reciprocal, and percent. Pure Win95 keypad layout.
- Paint — pixel-perfect canvas with the original colour palette, fill bucket, pencil, and free-hand drawing. Save to My Documents ▸ bmp.
- Notepad — minimal text editor with the original menu structure. Save to My Documents ▸ txt.
- Winamp — drop in MP3s from Files, lightning-bolt UI included. Plays through the lock screen with Now Playing controls.

A TINY DESKTOP, FAITHFULLY REBUILT
- Windows 95-style workspace with desktop icons, a Start menu, taskbar clock, and a system tray with battery and Wi-Fi indicators.
- Desktop folders and a separate My Documents space — long-press the desktop or use File ▸ New Folder.
- A Welcome screen on first launch, just like the original "Welcome to Windows 95" dialog.
- A Clippy-style desktop assistant — the classic Office helper parody, popping up with period-perfect tips as you click around.
- Three idle screensavers from the era — Mystify, 3D Maze, and 3D Pipes — with a "Display Properties" dialog to pick or randomize them.
- Long-press the desktop, a folder, or a My Documents file for a retro context menu — open, rename, delete, or arrange. Real Win95 muscle memory rewarded.
- MS Sans Serif typeface, raised/sunken bevels, the tealiest of teal backgrounds. We didn't just skin it — we rebuilt it.

PRIVACY-FIRST
- No accounts. No login, no email capture, no telemetry.
- Nothing leaves your phone. The privacy manifest ships with the binary so you can check.
- Quiet. No notifications, no nags, no "rate me" pop-ups every minute. (We ask once, gently, after a few wins. That's it.)

WHY ARCADE95
Most "retro" mobile games are reskins of the same casual template with a Windows 95 wallpaper slapped on top. Arcade95 is the opposite — a faithful Win95 desktop that happens to come pre-loaded with the games people actually played on a family PC after school.

The Pinball engine is the real Space Cadet code, ported. Solitaire animates and scores the way it should. Minesweeper has the timer, the long-press flag, and the question-mark mode. Even the Start button presses in.

If you grew up clicking around C:\\Program Files looking for Hover.exe, this is for you.

PERFECT FOR
- Quiet single-player sessions on the bus, in line, before bed.
- Anyone tired of free-to-play monetization in classic puzzle games.
- 90s kids, vaporwave fans, design enthusiasts, and the Y2K aesthetic crowd.
- Gifting to a parent who misses their old computer.

WHAT'S COMING
We're adding more 90s-era games and screensavers in upcoming versions. Leave a review with what you'd love to see next — JezzBall, Hover, the Ski Free yeti? Tell us.

Built natively for iPhone — no emulator, no bloat, no battery drain. Just a small, fast, focused throwback.

Open the Start menu. Pick a game. Welcome back to '95.