Play Hippy's Quest Online

Hippy's Quest is one of those oddball titles from the MS-DOS Classic Games collection, a release that bundles a bunch of forgotten shareware and demos. I don't recall the developer's name offhand, but it fits right into that early 90s era where anyone with a compiler and a weird idea could put a game out on a floppy disk. It's not trying to be a blockbuster; it's just a strange little side-scroller from a time when PC gaming was full of experiments.

You control a cartoon hippie character, navigating a series of surreal, brightly colored levels. Your main goal is simply to reach the end of each stage, but the path is blocked by an assortment of enemies, like robotic disco balls and angry, bouncing flora. You attack by shooting rainbows from your hands, which requires careful timing and positioning. The levels are designed screen by screen, often with tricky platforming sections and enemies that spawn in unpredictable patterns. It can be surprisingly difficult, with some cheap hits and instant death pits, but the sheer absurdity of the visuals and sound keeps you pushing forward. Playing it feels like taking a quick, chaotic trip through someone's animated daydream.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".