Operating System freebie games

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Benj Edwards assembled a compilation of the games bundled with operating systems. Harry McCracken writes in:

They've been around for decades. You've used them. Woz wrote one. So did Bill Gates. Yet they get no respect–or, really, attention at all.

Pictured above is the Gates magnum opus, DONKEY.BAS, tossed off in a few hours for DOS 1.0. Consoles, regrettably, are not represented in the roundup. [Technologizer. Thanks, Harry!]