Arcade95: Retro Windows Games
Win95 Arcade Desktop Simulator
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
A whole Windows 95 desktop in your pocket — real Solitaire, Pinball and Minesweeper, plus Paint, Winamp and Netscape. Seven eras, and the yeti's waiting.
Boot up a tiny Windows 95-style desktop on your iPhone. Play Solitaire, Minesweeper, Pinball, FreeCell, Hearts, Reversi, Gomoku, JezzBall, and SkiFree; sketch in Paint, jot in Notepad, spin MP3s in Winamp, surf the '90s web in Netscape — 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.
- Gomoku — line up five stones in a row before the AI does. Pure board strategy, no luck.
- JezzBall — wall off the bouncing balls and claim the board. One slip and a ball punches through.
- 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.
- Netscape — a '90s-style web browser, dial-up handshake and all.
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".
- Seven desktop eras — Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me, XP, Vista, and 7, switchable in the Appearance tab. Windows 3.1 even boots into its own Program Manager shell.
- 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
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.
Open the Start menu. Pick a game. Welcome back to '95.
The desktop keeps growing — a new app, your own photos on the wall, and a way to share the chaos.
- Windows Media Player joins the desktop — drop in your videos from Files and play them in a faithful '90s player.
- Set any photo as wallpaper — pick straight from your albums in Display Properties.
- Share the moment: save your SkiFree yeti wipeout as a GIF, or capture the whole desktop with Print Screen and send it off.
- Calculator gains a Scientific mode — trig, logarithms, powers, and memory keys.
- Spider Solitaire polish: a real winning card-cascade, double-tap to play, and multi-level undo.
- The usual fidelity pass — an authentic hourglass wait cursor, truer 3D Flower Box colors, and a tidier Control Panel.
The developer, heewook shin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- heewook shin
- Size
- 48.3 MB
- Category
- Casual
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, Japanese, Korean
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 AXI Inc.

