Take Your Phone Back to the 90s With This Free Android Game
Even if I don’t remember the 90s very well, I remember all those old technologies of the 90s exactly, especially the classic look of old Windows operating systems. So when I saw Android Central ‘s post about the free Android game Progressbar95 , I knew I had to give it a try.
Progressbar95 is great for bringing your 90s PC style to your modern smartphone. It’s all there – the buzzing, scraping clicks of the PC hard drive, cascading pop-ups, the annoying Clippy facsimile, and even the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (which, by the way, is still very popular ).
Players progress through the levels by dragging the natch on the screen to grab the blue blocks that increase the level of the progress bar and also avoid other blocks that either reduce your potential high score or decrease your hearts, which are essentially lives … If you’ve survived long enough to defragment your gaming computer’s hard drive, you can try to bring life back to life in a short touch-screen mini-game that reminds you of the disk check screens of the past.
As you progress through the levels, you earn points for unlocking new hardware components in the game that seem strange by today’s standards (for example, 6MB of RAM), which in turn allows you to upgrade to newer versions of the Progressbar “Operating System”. Higher levels introduce new obstacles such as more aggressive pop-ups, faster and more challenging block drop patterns, increasingly tenacious (and deadlier) Clippy to fight against, and more.
I spent about thirty minutes with the game and found it to be a fun nostalgic ride wrapped in a cold little game. You can download it for free on Google Play right now . There’s also a $ 2 premium version available, which removes in-game ads, but I recommend sticking with the free version unless you’re really in the era that Progressbar95 is calling and don’t want to play ad-free between levels.