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You can still download the original version from Microsoft's public FTP server:

ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/deskapps/games/public/AAS/Hover.EXE

Plays just fine on modern machines running Windows.

Or just pop in your Windows 95 CD. I don't know why they didn't just install it along with Windows 95 -- it was pretty reasonably sized if I recall correctly.

Windows 95 also shipped on floppies. See Raymond Chen's post mentioning how they used high-capacity floppies just to save the money from two disks: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/19/4536....

Perhaps it was small by todays standards but I remember my first Windows 95 PC had a 290MB Hard Drive. A fresh Windows 95 install took up maybe 30MB or 40MB if I remember correctly so even if Hover was only 1MB it was still a relatively significant amount.

As an aside... I also remember Windows 95 was available on floppy, I think maybe there was 10 floppy disks in total (?). I seem to recall that they used special floppy disks that held more than the usual 1.44MB.

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