EXP-98 Shopify Theme

EXP-98 by WEBEXP is a Windows 98 style Shopify theme that turns your store into a retro desktop, with folders, product windows, a Start menu, a CD player and built-in games. View the live demo: exp-98.webexp.dev (password: EXP) A Windows 98 desktop that happens to be a shop. Grey windows with blue title bars. A Start button. Folders for your collections, products that open in their own windows, a cart that's a dialog box, and a taskbar along the bottom with a clock in the corner. A CD player playing your music. Screensavers when nobody's touched anything for a while. Minesweeper. EXP-98 is a retro Shopify theme that turns your store into a 1998 desktop — and underneath the costume it is a real store. Every product, collection and page has its real URL, so links can be shared, indexed and advertised. It just happens to open in a window. Built from an empty folder, not a Dawn reskin. The windows drag, stack, minimise and maximise. The Start menu has your pages in it. On a phone the desktop becomes a grid of icons and the windows fill the screen, and every game is playable with a thumb. It's built to be played with, and built so that playing with it keeps people looking at your products. Music with a full-screen visualizer that moves to the song. Eight games that can hand out a discount code when someone wins. A Photo Booth that turns a selfie into ASCII art. A Lookbook that plays your collection as a slideshow in a Media Player window. A screensaver with 3D pipes. People screen-record this kind of thing and send it to each other, and the store they send is yours. The drop is covered too. A password page with a countdown in Minesweeper digits, an email sign-up (built in, or paste your Klaviyo form), games to play your way in, and an Enter button at zero that types the password for waiting customers. An enter gate before the store with a boot screen and a Windows log-on, over your own image or video, with a start-up sound. One tier. Everything below is in it. The Desktop Shortcut icons — shop, collections, search, contact, cart, policies, help, your own links, with your own icons if you like Windows that drag, stack, minimise and maximise, with an Opening… dialog the first time each one opens Start menu with your pages, socials, Sleep and Shut down Taskbar with a button per open window, a tray clock, your social links and the cart Read me windows for announcements, a Recycle Bin that keeps what leaves the cart, a Favorites folder Display Properties — shoppers pick their own colour scheme and mouse trails Blue-screen 404 The Shop Collections as folders — Icons, List and Details views, filters and sorting Product windows with a square gallery that plays video and 3D models, variant buttons, a size chart, and You may also like Low-stock notice; Sale, New and your own badges Cart dialog with a goal progress bar (free shipping, free gift) and a You may also like shelf Predictive search with filters on the results Desktop cells for a collection or a product, and a window that opens on arrival for one-product stores and drops SEO and structured data written for you The Toys CD Player — up to 12 tracks, cover art printed on a spinning disc, keeps playing between pages, full-screen visualizer with 24 looks The studio — maximise the player and it's a Winamp-style mixer: ten-band equalizer with presets, filter, echo, and the visualizer in a window Eight games — MATCH, WORM, MINEFIELD, BRICKS, WALLS, PIPES, PUZZLE, SOLITAIRE — just for fun or revealing a discount code Photo Booth — an ASCII art studio: a photo or a camera shot, presets, sliders, effects, saved as a picture. Nothing is uploaded Lookbook — a collection played as a slideshow in a Media Player window Videos and Photos windows, a Profile page styled as a 2006 social profile Screensavers — bouncing logo, starfield, Mystify, 3D pipes, 3D maze, 3D text Opt-in system sounds — the start-up chime, clicks, the recycle bin The Drop Enter gate — boot screen (optional) and a Windows 98 log-on, over your image or video, with a start-up sound Password page with a countdown, Minesweeper digits, built-in email capture or a Klaviyo embed, and games Enter button at zero — types your storefront password for the visitor Email sign-up dialog Yours to change Seven palettes — each a full skin, chrome, title bars, buttons and icons together Wallpaper image or video, CRT screen effect, switch-on animation, pixel grid Large or classic icon size, large or classic taskbar, single or double click to open Every setting explained in plain English in the editor, with links to the admin page it needs Who it's for Streetwear, music, merch, zines, anything with a following. Brands whose store is part of the brand — where someone opening the site for the first time should want to show it to a friend. Why EXP-98 Nostalgia themes usually stop at a font and a grey button. This one is the whole operating system: windows that behave like windows, a taskbar that works, music, games, a screensaver. It doesn't look like 1998. It is, with checkout. Includes a full documentation site and a step-by-step setup guide. Install it in an afternoon. EXP-98 is an independent theme by WEBEXP. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Microsoft. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.