Arcade95: Retro Windows

Boot up a tiny Windows 95-style desktop on your iPhone. Play Solitaire, Minesweeper, Pinball, FreeCell, Hearts, Reversi, and SkiFree; sketch in Paint, jot in Notepad, spin MP3s in Winamp — hop between them like apps on an old PC, and let ten 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, scoring, auto-move, and the card-cascade you remember.
- Minesweeper — Beginner to Expert grids. Long-press to flag, smiley-face timer at the top.
- Pinball 95 — the original Space Cadet table, ported natively and tuned for touch. Flippers, ball-saver, multipliers — all of it.
- SkiFree — bomb down an endless slope, launch off jumps... and outrun the yeti. Rebuilt from the original.
- FreeCell — 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.
- Reversi — the classic 8×8 board against a sharp AI. Take the corners, flip the game.
- Calculator — the classic standard-mode keypad, now with working menus, copy & paste, and hardware-keyboard input.
- Paint — the original colour palette, fill bucket, pencil, and free-hand drawing. Saves to My Documents ▸ bmp.
- Notepad — minimal text editor with the original menu structure. Saves to My Documents ▸ txt.
- Sticky Notes — scribble notes that stick to the desktop, tuck into the tray, and pin to your iPhone home screen as widgets.
- Winamp — drop in MP3s from Files, lightning-bolt UI included. Plays through the lock screen.

A TINY DESKTOP, FAITHFULLY REBUILT
- Desktop icons, a Start menu, taskbar clock, and a system tray with battery and Wi-Fi indicators.
- My Computer as a real Explorer window — working menus, toolbar, address bar, and status bar.
- Desktop folders and a separate My Documents space — File ▸ New Folder, just like before.
- Ten idle screensavers — Mystify, 3D Maze, 3D Pipes, Flying Windows, Starfield, 3D Text and more — pick or randomize in "Display Properties".
- Five desktop themes — Windows 95, 98, Me, XP, or Vista, switchable in the Appearance tab.
- A Clippy-style assistant — nine quirky characters popping up with period-perfect tips.
- A "Welcome to Windows 95"-style greeting on first launch.
- Long-press anything for a retro context menu — open, rename, delete, arrange. 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 with a Windows 95 wallpaper slapped on top. Arcade95 is the opposite — a faithful Win95 desktop pre-loaded with the games people actually played on the family PC after school.

The Pinball engine is the real Space Cadet code, ported. 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
More 90s-era games are coming — Hover, maybe? Tell us in a review. And keep poking around: a few things are hidden where you least expect them.

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.