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.

  • 3.7
    out of 5
    6 Ratings

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 .

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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.
Languages
English and 2 more
  • English, Japanese, Korean
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
  • © 2026 AXI Inc.