I could easily give an answer as I was a kid at the time, but I have a feeling people will think I'm wrong, so I wanted to ask you. Did Windows 95 have any defining games for kids, and if so what were they?

After Windows 95's release, kids games became a big deal on there. I recently read an old edition of Billboard that said that while teen/adult-aimed software were flat or declining in sales and revenue, the kid computer game market exploded, peaking right around the time Windows 98 released. Companies wanted to license their characters for Windows instead of consoles, unlike the eras before (SNES/Genesis) and after (PS2) where every kiddie franchise got their own console game.

Yet 30 years later there doesn't seem to be a consensus on what the kids games for Windows 95 (or 98) were in the same way that the N64 and PSX did. I made a meme in another sub a while ago with "which ones are you choosing?" with 20 kids PC games, and yet despite the ones I selected selling hundreds of thousands of copies at the time I don't think anyone who answered remembered more than 2-4 of them (and it seems they all remembered different games).

Is the actual answer just the free games that were bundled with Windows?

I got bored today so I hooked up my Pentium Windows 95 machine, but now what do? I want to play something in all that OG hardware glory, but can't think of WHAT. I thougth of MDK, but I beat that a couple months ago. Then I thought of Worms, which I have a disc around here somewhere I might put in. What else?

For clarification, I have a much nicer retro machine. P3 1GHZ, lots of RAM, Geforce 2, Win2k, SB Live, etc. That's what I play most of my old games on. But I want something that even that's too new for. To play something truly designed for 95, on 95.

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Non posso postare foto ma ho un Xbox 360 con jtag su cui ho installato dosbox e da lì faccio bootare Windows 95 che non vede nessuna chiavetta USB anche se è inserita e sono USB da 4 gb

Hi, I need help. I have a Pentium 133 PC and I'd like to install Windows 95 OSR2, but I don't have any floppy disks and it won't boot from the CD-ROM. I also can't buy a floppy disk.

Any advice?