Play Marshmallow Duel Online

Marshmallow Duel came out in 1993 as part of the MS-DOS Classic Games collection, developed by Philippe Patenaude and David Papineau. It was one of those simple, two player games that felt right at home on a shared keyboard, back when split screen was a luxury and not a standard. You didn't need a manual or a backstory; you just needed a friend and a competitive streak.

You control a little character at the bottom of the screen, armed with nothing but a marshmallow launcher. The goal is straightforward: hit your opponent before they hit you. The physics have a surprising weight to them; you have to account for arc and bounce, and every missed shot teaches you a little more about trajectory. Matches are fast, often over in under a minute, but the difficulty comes from reading your opponent's moves and out-thinking them in real time. It feels like a pure test of reflexes and prediction, condensed into a series of frantic, sugary volleys.

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