Play Star Wars on Msdos Online

Fly a blocky X-wing through wireframe canyons or stomp around as a pixel Rebel—either way, you’re wrestling with janky controls until that one perfect Death Star run clicks. Beeps and graph paper graphics never felt so right.

Developer: Lucasfilm Games

Genre: Action

Released: 1993

File size: 43.43 KB

Game Overview

Star Wars on MS-DOS is one of those games that makes you appreciate how far we've come—while still grinning at its janky, pixelated charm. You start off either in an X-wing cockpit (all wireframes and blinky lights) or as a Rebel soldier running and gunning in this weirdly stiff but endearing side-scroller. The Death Star trench run feels like threading a needle with a keyboard, but when you finally nail it? Pure 90s victory.

The sound effects are basically beeps pretending to be blasters, and the graphics look like someone sketched Star Wars on graph paper. But back then, this was as close as you got to feeling like Luke Skywalker without strapping on a VHS tape. It’s clunky, sure, but there’s something weirdly satisfying about mastering its quirks. Perfect for retro nerds or anyone who wants to see how gaming scraped by before polygons took over.

Also, good luck explaining to anyone under 25 why this was mind-blowing in 1993.

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