OldSchool — play classic PC games natively on your phone, Mac or Linux
A cross-device launcher that wraps natively ported classic PC games with a modern touch or mouse UI, cloud-saves your progress between phone and desktop, and ships a curated store of legally sourced titles.
retro gaming enthusiasts aged 25–45 who want to revisit 90s PC classics on modern devices
- A 'plug your old CD' flow that legally rips and patches your disc-based titles into the launcher
- Touch-optimized control schemes auto-generated for each game genre
- Cloud-synced saves so a campaign started on Mac picks up on phone
- A built-in multiplayer lobby for LAN-classic online play once a game supports it
A Red Alert native port trending on GitHub shows that 1990s PC classics on modern phones is a real and active demand — the marketplace is missing a polished storefront around it.
Multiple roundups of ported 90s PC games on mobile (MUO, GamePressure, GamingRetro) plus active Red Alert source-port activity (dk8827/ra-port, OpenRA) and a $3.12B retro market in 2024 confirm clear, sustained interest.GitHub - dk8827/ra-port: Unofficial working port of Command & Conquer ↗29 classic PC games you can play on Android right now ↗Retro Gaming Statistics 2026: Market Size & Player Data ↗
No polished cross-device (iOS/Android/Mac/Linux) storefront wraps natively ported PC classics today; adjacent tools like LaunchBox (Windows-only), RetroArch (emulators, not native ports), GOG Galaxy (desktop only) and OpenRA (rebuilds, not bundled) leave real whitespace for a unified launcher+store.LaunchBox Alternatives for Android: Top 16 Game Library Managers ↗Great GOG GALAXY Alternatives: Top Game Library Managers in 2026 ↗OpenRA - Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era ↗
Willingness to pay exists (retro market $3.8B in 2025), but a curated 'store' of classic titles is undermined by EA's GPL release requiring users to already own the C&C Ultimate Collection and by App Store policies — typical pattern is per-game purchase like GOG, not SaaS subscription, capping ceiling.EA Just Made These Command & Conquer Games Open-Source ↗Licensing Information | electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert ↗
Retro gaming market projected to grow from $3.8B (2025) to $8.5B by 2033, and EA's open-sourcing of C&C source ensures the underlying catalog has multi-decade staying power — assets legally available for decades.Online Retro Games Statistics 2026 - Icon Era ↗Retro Gaming Console Sales Statistics (2026) - Icon Era ↗
Tech pieces exist (OpenRA, SDL2 ports, DOSBox Staging integrations), but assembling a cross-platform native launcher with a legally sourced storefront plus cloud-sync save backend is non-trivial — multi-OS packaging, per-title licensing, and App Store review friction create real execution risk.7 DOSBox Front-Ends That Make Playing Retro PC Games Easy ↗