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| Friday Apr 18, 2008 | An interview with the gentleman who created the largest time-waster of modern computing reveals his admiration of fake or not as well as this outdated website. to Games by fool |
| Sunday Nov 4, 2007 | The deep plot and backstory of Pac-Man meets the non-stop action of Zork: Pac-Txt! to Games by isosceles |
| Sunday Aug 5, 2007 | If Tetris bores you, then play Statetris: Tetris with European nations. to Games by isosceles |
| Monday Apr 2, 2007 | If rock, paper, scissors is losing its lustre, take it to the next level with rock, paper, scissors, gun, dynamite, nuke, lightning, devil, and so on and so on... to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Sep 7, 2006 | Tired of figuring out who's Hot or Not? Try to figure out if this is a Bomb or Not? to Games by faisal |
| Wednesday Aug 23, 2006 | Earlier this summer, London, England was overrun with Street Wars "Assassins" bent on squirting one another with water pistols for something like personal glory. London police were not amused. to Games by pyrrhuloxia |
| Saturday Jul 29, 2006 | Guillaume Reymond has come up with a way to play old-time favorites Space Invaders and Pong with a few dozen of your closest friends. to Games by pyrrhuloxia |
| Thursday May 25, 2006 | Recently, Japanese peripheral maker Keys
Factory ran an
internal staff contest
for non-destructive
DS case
mods. The
rather
uninspiring winner is now available for 980 yen, but
some of the
other entries are
much more
interesting
(if
not exactly
practical).
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Apr 30, 2006 | All hobbies and
professions
that are, essentially, cries for
attention have one thing in common:
self-congratulatory
awards.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Jan 22, 2006 | Steelers fans come in all shapes and sizes. to Games by faisal |
| Thursday Dec 1, 2005 | Wow,
Animal Crossing is much..
darker
than I remembered.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Nov 27, 2005 | Showing once again that everything that can be
sexed up,
will be, we present
the world chess beauty contest.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Aug 29, 2005 |
Doom
meets Duck Hunt. No word yet on if you can frag that
damned sniggering dog.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jul 22, 2005 | If this is what sugarcrash is all about, I am quite reluctent to find out what snowcrash involves. to Games by fool |
| Friday Jul 15, 2005 | Despite
the claims of politicians
and the
assumptions of navel-gazing
"new games journalists",
games have a much broader demographic market than "kids" and "white men in their teens and 20s."
For example,
this guy's harcore gamer grandma.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 4, 2005 | You got your salsa in my Street Fighter! You got your
Street Fighter in my salsa! to Games by riotnrrd |
| Wednesday Jun 1, 2005 | Whether or not the
Leroy Jenkins video is
staged or not,
its amusingly suicidal "hero" has gathered a circle of fans.
Beyond the usual
incomprehensible-to-outsiders forum thread
discussing the participants' own "Leroy Jenkins moments",
this fandom has led to the inevitable
badly made fansites,
flash soundboards,
game mods,
and, finally, a musical tribute.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Saturday May 14, 2005 | If you like the Python Challenge then you'll love the original puzzle that the Python Challenge seems to have ripped off quite shamelessly. to Games by 7layerburrito |
| Thursday May 5, 2005 | If flash puzzles aren't hardcore enough for you, perhaps you're ready for the python challenge. to Games by fool |
| Sunday Feb 27, 2005 | For those determined to live on the fringe of society, there are guides to applying Dungeons and Dragons semantics to your real life: food and sex. to Games by isosceles |
| Friday Feb 25, 2005 | Katamari
Damacy is a cute and addicting game from Japan (Playstation 2
only) that has become a sleeper hit here in the U.S..
Like combining sodium and water, mixing Japanese strangeness and gamers yeilds
an energized and
obsessed fanbase, who in turn create (or inspire)
hats,
hand puppets,
cellphone straps,
play-doh sculptures
paper cut-out models,
costumes,
a
sequel,
and
fanfic (of course).
My, Earth really is full of things. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Feb 14, 2005 | No Roman numeral is safe! to Games by yoyology |
| Tuesday Feb 1, 2005 | Squint your afternoon away with the
world's smallest
game of Pac-Man. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Friday Jan 7, 2005 | Everything
old is new again, with
Adventure
for Quake 3.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Jan 6, 2005 | Follow along as Logan West crams an NES, SNES,
N64, and GameCube with GameBoy Player into one
big ugly wooden box. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 15, 2004 | Profanity Adventures:
A nostalgic look at what happens when you type swear words into old
text adventures.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Aug 5, 2004 | Transformers,
breakdancers
in disguise.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 5, 2004 | The relentless, mathematics-inspired
drive
to formalize everything has
finally paid off in
juggling.
At least it might give us a nice
screen-saver. to Games by pinealtap |
| Thursday Jun 24, 2004 | Worst
gameroom
ever.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jun 7, 2004 | Dedicated fans of Lucas Arts' NES game
Manic Mansion have
re-made it
but what's
the
dirty secret behind this not-so-dirty
story game?
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday May 10, 2004 | You can archive your
unbelievably crappy Scrabble hands for posterity. to Games by scromp |
| Thursday May 6, 2004 | Help me. I'm trapped in the Kingdom Of Loathing, best
described as a tongue-in-bum-cheek web-based MMORPG. to Games by gator |
| Subsequently, after playing with this for a while, nobody will call you an asshole. to Games by fatherdan |
| Thursday Feb 26, 2004 | Test your decay recognition skills with Tandskadememory! Starta spelet! to Games by yoyology |
| Thursday Feb 5, 2004 | In the tradition of Lighter Tricks comes Super Handz. The site for all sports that didn't quite make it as a sport. Bobby Badfingers would surely approve.
to Games by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Jan 21, 2004 | "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will." Hamlet, V,ii,10 to Games by yoyology |
| Thursday Dec 18, 2003 | If just once, you'd really like to see someone beat that hypertalented tweaker at the chess club, then maybe you should propose a Chessboxing event. to Games by fool |
| Wednesday Dec 3, 2003 | If you thought it began and ended with
the cat's
cradle, you have
a lot to learn. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Dec 2, 2003 | In a stunning display of wasteful computing, you can now play
Pac Man
and Space Invaders as Excel macros. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Nov 10, 2003 | For all you role-playing gamers out there, the ultimate rule system
has finally been invented:
H*Y*B*R*I*D
("it's NOT an acronym; stars are
there just to make it look pretty"). HINT: For how to destroy a Death Star of & in Star Wars Universe, look @ rule # 116. HINT: For how to create a (US) President, look @ rule # 119. Warning (805k of HTML) to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Oct 7, 2003 | Batten down the hatches and swab your poop-deck: Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates lets you play many massively multiplayer puzzles and role-play a pirate at the same time.
to Games by joshua |
| Monday Sep 29, 2003 | You know that one Nintendo game,
the one so hard
that you could never get
past the second boss, let alone beat it? Even though you still
suck, you can at least find out what you missed at
Super NES endings.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Saturday Sep 27, 2003 | Dyson is a primarily known as a
UK vacuum cleaner
manufacturer, but they offer a fiendish little flash puzzle game that
reminds me of Chu Chu
Rocket and Ricochet
Robot. to Games by gator |
| Tuesday Aug 19, 2003 | Intrigued by the game 1000 Blank White Cards, but your only friends are the tormented souls of the damned, and they can't hold a pen? Well, thanks to the combined magic of the Interweb and the Greek Goddess of Discord, you can now play it online! to Games by riffraff |
| Monday Jun 9, 2003 | Apparently, I will end up as a garbage collector living in an apartment in Bayonne, New Jersey. Jeri Ryan and I will have 1 kid, and I'll drive a brown Porsche. to Games by yoyology |
| Thursday Mar 27, 2003 | Even if you think the Star Wars universe
is full of reactionary and
racist
nonsense, you still might enjoy learning the rules of
Holochess,
or playing the card game Sabacc
online
or with a
homemade deck.
to Games by tinfoil |
| Thursday Mar 6, 2003 | When MAME meets mom, you get
vintage videogame cross-stiching.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Feb 25, 2003 | So, here we have the Flash Mind Reader, creepy e-mail forward of the month.
And here we have the big mean party-pooper spoiler.
to Games by yoyology |
| Thursday Feb 20, 2003 | Decide whether that moustache belongs to a Despot or a Sexpot.
to Games by isosceles |
| Tuesday Dec 24, 2002 | From
Cactus Game Design,
creators of the Biblical
card-collecting game
Redemption,
comes this season's hottest new Christian board game spinoff. Move over Bibleopoly; here come the Settlers of Canaan! to Games by voidptr |
| Monday Dec 23, 2002 | Don't have an internet connection? Can't get to
eBay? Play the
home game! And yes, it
talks.
to Games by enigma |
| Sunday Dec 22, 2002 | People sure do love their Nintendo games. Yet, the varied ways that they express it never cease to amaze me:
Softcore Zelda porn,
a project to transcribe the music from Metroid,
a tribute to the dog from Duck Hunt,
and
Mario Kart fanfic, to name but a few. to Games by crikey |
| Sunday Jul 21, 2002 | Who's
the
best
video
game
character?
Only a
voting tournament can decide. to Games by onigame |
| Sunday Jun 23, 2002 | In the late 80s and early 90s,
Cliff Johnson
released a set of Macintosh puzzle games.
The Fool's Errand
and
3 in Three
became instant classics, and have long been remembered fondly
by puzzle gamers.
Now the author is
offering
these games
(and others)
for free on his
web site.
Playable on
Macintoshes
and
emulated
Macintoshes.
to Games by belford |
| Saturday May 4, 2002 | Do you DIY? How about card games? Well, how about a DIY card game: 1000 Blank White Cards - The Discordian Intelligence Agency Edition. There are now two mirrors, here and here, so now you have no excuse for not playing. Pikachutlotal commands you!
to Games by riffraff |
| Monday Apr 29, 2002 | Bejeweled, meet your maker.
to Games by n |
| Sunday Apr 21, 2002 | What do nachos and Godzilla have in common? They take the hard work out of finding good ROMs. to Games by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Mar 20, 2002 | If you're jonesing for some retro-arcade action, download
MAME,
the multi-arcade machine emulator,
and (since you
already own the real machines,
of course) download
some
ROMs and have fun!
But.. something's missing:
the right controllers.
So buy some, or
build your own.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar 19, 2002 | Go? What is Go? Well, if you want to join the ranks of 40-damn near 100 year old sweaty, dorky Go players in America, you can always use one of the many Go resources and find out how to play. Then, you can expand your nerdy horizons by practicing Go problems. Next, you can play other people on the internet. Finally, send in your Go games, get them rated, and take a cold shower, you stud!
to Games by 7layerburrito |
| Wednesday Mar 13, 2002 | What's wrong with this picture?
to Games by roo |
| Grown tired of overly elaborate versions of pong? Try Pong: The Text-Based Game for a dose of lo fi
gaming. to Games by fool |
| Monday Feb 25, 2002 | Why spend $10/month and half your life levelling up in one of those complex online
multi-player
games when you can streamline the experience with
Progress Quest? to Games by nelson |
| Friday Feb 22, 2002 | Ever hear of the game Chess? Reviewer Greg Kasavin
hates the first edition but loves the second,
realtime strategy version. Reviews elsewhere
have been mixed. The whole controversy reminds
me how much I agree with game designer
Bob Abbott's
assertion that
video games suck.
to Games by tinfoil |
| Thursday Feb 14, 2002 | Quake brought us Rocket Jumping. Counterstrike brought us Bunny Hopping. Now Halo brings us the Warthog Jump.
to Games by kade |
| Sunday Feb 10, 2002 | Yet another way to satisfy your
Settlers of Catan craving is to play WanCatan. This network friendly game supports multiuser play much better than NetSet and also allows you to play the Cities and Knights and Seafarers expansions simultaneously. Additionally, you can use the chat client Wanna Catan to allow you to seek other people to play with. There is even a ranking system. to Games by laurel |
| Wednesday Jan 23, 2002 | Perhaps one of the reasons for pinball's recent resurgence is the licensing. First a popular movie, then the most popular sport in the USA, and now the most popular board game in the world. What's left? Why, the most popular magazine, of course. I sure hope to see that at a future competition. to Games by onigame |
| Tuesday Jan 22, 2002 | The archetype for all Discordian games, besides
Discordianism itself, is of course
SINK. But there are now many others.
The Electronomicon lists some.
There's also a
Discordian deck of cards and a
Discordian Coloring Book.
But the best collection of Discordian games is at
Castle Chaos. to Games by tinfoil |
| Saturday Jan 12, 2002 | In 1982, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released, eventually becoming the highest-grossing film in history. Atari's E.T. video game was quickly (and expensively) thrown together, and become legendary, for different reasons. Twenty years later, E.T. is being re-released, and one company dares to release five E.T. video games. Good luck, kids!
to Games by tregoweth |
| Thursday Jan 10, 2002 | What pre-1985 video game character are you? to Games by sylvar |
| Thursday Jan 3, 2002 | Most board game geeks agree that The Settlers of Catan (or, as it's known in Germany, Die Siedler von Catan) is one of the best games ever, whether online, play-by-e-mail, or in-real-life. It fosters cooperation in the form of trading, and the only antagonistic element in the game is probably overused.
to Games by onigame |
| Tuesday Jan 1, 2002 | Guinness, schminness. For videogame records, you have to go to the Twin Galaxies scoreboard.
to Games by tregoweth |
| Thursday Dec 20, 2001 | Your speed-chess technique cannot compete with my kung-fu chess style. You go and remember the ass whooping a real-time take on turn-based full information game gave you.
to Games by fool |
| Wednesday Nov 28, 2001 | Popular Wargame + Popular animated TV series = you don't want to know.
to Games by cyberpyro |
| Friday Nov 23, 2001 | My cat had to explain to me that you use the arrow keys to move in the
PSYCHO TECHNO HYPNO KITTEN SNAKE
game. This was only after she did some research.
But she didn't need the instructions for this hateful
little game. to Games by lucky |
| Sunday Nov 18, 2001 | If you are a fan of the Robo Rally board game, you'll be happy to learn that an
online version of the game exists. to Games by laurel |
| Saturday Nov 3, 2001 |
Abstract strategy games are
games such as Chess,
with no hidden information and no chance elements.
Sponsoring an
annual game design contest and making
many sample articles
available online,
Abstract Games magazine
is the straight dope, but better for your brain.
to Games by tinfoil |
| Friday Nov 2, 2001 | The piecepack is public domain game system that
is to board games what an ordinary deck of cards
is to card games. You can
buy wooden piecepacks or
print your own. If you get really interested,
join the
mailing list.
to Games by tinfoil |
| Monday Oct 29, 2001 | Before fall wanes, try your hand at the local Corn Maze. Fun for everyone.
to Games by fool |
| Saturday Oct 20, 2001 | It's the 21st century, and you're still using analog dice? Roll them bones via email, the Web, or electronic dice with LEDs and sound effects. to Games by tregoweth |
| The smart-mouthed canine shamus and hyperkinetic rabbity thing are back for more. to Games by lampbane |
| Friday Oct 19, 2001 | The palmpilot version of SFCave wasted endless hours; so consider yourself forewarned before playing the Java version. to Games by fool |
| Friday Oct 12, 2001 | In "Boong-ga Boon-ga", you earn points by reaming a virtual character with a giant finger and smacking them on the ass. Right, as if I didn't already do enough of that in the real world.
to Games by mrnonrespondo |
| Thursday Oct 11, 2001 | Intentionally created disease
vectors? Not even your Sims
are safe! to Games by asosa |
| Long to return to the glory days of the classic and most wildly entertaining Spacewar iteration, Star Control 2? Juffo-Wup fills my fibers and I grow turgid. Violent action ensues.
to Games by singe |
| Thursday Sep 27, 2001 | Thinking of designing your own console RPG? Be sure to consult The Grand List Of Console Role Playing Game Cliches! to Games by kier |
| Saturday Sep 8, 2001 | That's just not cricket!
to Games by fool |
| Friday Aug 31, 2001 | There have been various efforts to modernize the games of the Ultima game series, or to make them run on modern machines. The latest, and admittedly pretty nice-looking reworking of these classics is Ultima IV: The Dawn of Virtue, which based on screenshots looks like sort of cross-breed of Ultima IV and Baldur's Gate, made by the same guy who made Falcon's Eye graphics patch for Nethack. to Games by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Aug 30, 2001 | Play PC games? Ever wish you could separate the wheat from the chaff, but without giving in to the Big Corporations?
The Independent Game Festival's list of winners is a good start. to Games by onigame |
| Wednesday Aug 29, 2001 | Who Wants To Be a Cheapass? is a small trivia quiz about something you already know about. (Or something you should know about.) I got up to the $125,000 level myself. to Games by onigame |
| Tuesday Aug 21, 2001 |
One of the earliest video games,
Spacewar! was
written on a PDP-1 (with an oscillioscope display) at MIT, but went through
innumerable
versions
(including a gigantic
coin-op arcade machine).
If you don't have a PDP handy, you can
play the
original online (Java required).
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Monday Jul 30, 2001 | Everquest taking up too much of your time? UltimaOnline Not cool enough? Try DroidArena.
to Games by rampage |
| Sunday Jul 1, 2001 | I stayed up way too late last night playing this
addictive
bridge building game. Sadly, due to a trademark mess (these guys
had the name first), the the official site for the game
is down. Check out these
two
instead.
to Games by gator |
| Friday Jun 22, 2001 | "Hi, I'm Brother Thaddeus, come to bring you the good news of Our Lord
Jesus Chr...ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!"
The Web gives an old logic puzzle a far more entertaining edge. to Games by fatherdan |
| Wednesday Jun 20, 2001 | Looking through the list of Classic Arcade Game Locations in New York one may notice the absence of the Chinatown Arcade, an L-shaped block of space usually crammed to the gills with imports, classics, Asian kids, body heat, and Dance Dance Revolution. It's a shame they neglected to include it on the list, because who knows how many curious businessmen might want to skip work to challenge all the kids cutting school to a good game of Galaga or Golden Axe?
to Games by lampbane |
| We've had links to MAME before, but how about playing vector games on the side of a building. to Games by krisjohn |
| Friday Jun 8, 2001 | You probably use chess terms all the time without knowing what they really mean. to Games by laurel |
| Some of my friends collect used arcade games for their apartments. I was thinking about going to an auction, but then I found something even better. to Games by george |
| Tuesday Jun 5, 2001 | What do you get when you cross H.P.
Lovecraft with Saved By The
Bell? School Colors Out of Space! to Games by voidptr |
| Thursday May 31, 2001 | The World Puzzle Federation
is hosting the 10th World Puzzle
Championship
in Brno.
There's going to be a qualifying
test
used to select members of the US and Canadian teams.
One of the previous Dutch team members has a page
with lots of puzzles of the sort seen on the test.
to Games by joshua |
| Saturday May 19, 2001 | The collapse of eFront pulled down many a excellent site, one of them being mame.dk, the best multiple arcade machine emulator rom and information database bar none. Now the site is back, with a better interface and the most detailed MAME ROM database ever. How do they plan to support this? Purely through donations. Let's hope the emulation community pulls this one off!
to Games by wheezer |
| Wednesday May 16, 2001 | Continuing our cavalcade of bizarre Flash animations, we have Kent Kage Arm. Eat brownies, nuke
sheep, and poke your friend in the eye! Makes sense to
me.
to Games by kier |
| Leave it to the Web to remove the risk factor from Russian
Roulette. to Games by fatherdan |
| Wednesday May 2, 2001 | Wish you had your own fleet of ninjas for stealth
attacks? With Ninja Dispatch, now you do - and your target can watch the result.
to Games by petek |
| Monday Apr 30, 2001 | Those with fond memories of the original Final Fantasy might be amused to see Black Mage and Fighter take on giants, ninjas, and pop cultural phenomenons. to Games by lampbane |
| Sunday Apr 22, 2001 | Fantasy Death Row - Where you pick three felons and pick them well, because once you've got them, they're yours until they are pardoned, commuted or, bless their heart, called on home to King Jesus. I feel sorry for whoever has Timothy McVeigh. to Games by kade |
| Tuesday Apr 17, 2001 | Williams,
manufacturer of the best pinball
machines in the '90s,
stopped
about 18 months ago.
Pinball 2000
died before the end of 1999.
Now Williams makes slot machines.
But there's still hope:
Sega sold their pinball division. Now it's
Stern Pinball.
Familiar?
Remember Berzerk?
Same logo, same guys named Stern,
but it's all pinball now.
They've solicited
one of the best designers,
Pat Lawlor,
for an upcoming game.
Read up at the
Internet Pinball Database.
to Games by tjs |
| Tuesday Mar 27, 2001 | Tired of Everquest,
Ultima Online, and all those other
MMORPGs?
Chip & Dale's MMORPG
is for you, with extreme PVP!
to Games by petek |
| Friday Mar 16, 2001 | It was the immunity challenge on Survivor 2. But did you know you could play the timeless game of Dots online? to Games by boneyard |
| Thursday Mar 15, 2001 | Playing "Charades" online using a chatroom and a shared whiteboard can be horribly addictive, even if it requires Shockwave and maybe some sort of drawing tablet.
to Games by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar 6, 2001 | Screech has been with you through all life's adventures. Why not learn chess with him too?
to Games by george |
| Saturday Mar 3, 2001 | When it comes to sex, if there is demand, there is bound to be supply, even in places you would not expect.
to Games by enigma |
| Thursday Feb 22, 2001 | After some moments of confusion,
Zany Video Game Quotes has returned the network. It has a lot of new quotes,
golden
classics,
and naturally the stuff you're probably sick of hearing by now. to Games by wwwwolf |
| Thursday Feb 1, 2001 | Emulation got you down? Play Zelda and lots of variants running natively under DOS/Windows. to Games by george |
| Wednesday Jan 17, 2001 | Microsoft may claim to make software which helps people
Do
Their
Jobs, but
they're really responsible for an inordinate amount of
wasted
productivity.
Now, to add to their crimes, their Zone
website is chock full of
Productivity
Wasting
Games. Particularly addictive are puzzles
like
Alchemy or the aptly named
Speedwaster. And while they may
not have the
Visuals or
Immersive and Intricate Plot of some
games, even hardcore gamers like the guys at
Penny Arcade got
Addicted to
Bejeweled. Because, hey, even the
Son of God needs to get his
Bejeweling
on.
to Games by skyhook |
| Friday Jan 12, 2001 | God, the tension is everywhere. I haven't committed to a side,
but I have an inclination. I don't
have much time. Is this insanity?
Or does man's factionalism serve a higher purpose?
Nevermind. Definitely insanity. to Games by akk |
| Wednesday Jan 10, 2001 | I don't drink, but I hear drinking games can
be fun. Even George Dubbya Bush has one. I'd rather collect $200
and eat one chocolate house.
to Games by krisjohn |
| Saturday Jan 6, 2001 |
The solitaire card game FreeCell
gained wide exposure (and, perhaps, some
notoriety) from its inclusion in various Microsoft
operating systems. Check out the FreeCell FAQ,
including a pointer to an unsolvable
instance of the game. Also, I guess I shouldn't have been surprised to find
out that freecell.com hosts an
advertiser-supported web version of the game. to Games by gator |
| Wednesday Jan 3, 2001 | In a world full of penis-stealing witches and drunken astronauts, I like to wind down with Mavis Beacon's version of House of the Dead. to Games by skallas |
| Tuesday Dec 26, 2000 | Vib-Ribbon is a surreal and hard to explain game for the PlayStation. And it's from some of the people behind PaRappa the Rapper. And it's a black-and-white vector game starring a rabbit named Vibri. And you can play your own music CDs in the PlayStation, and the game will change based on the music's beats and tempo. (And, alas, Sony has no plans to release it in the U.S.) to Games by tregoweth |
| Friday Dec 8, 2000 | Are you a person who believes that rules exist only to be broken? You'd probably enjoy Nomic, a "game" which solely consists of the process of inventing, debating and implementing amendments to its "rules". If you like your ever-changing-rules games to have something solid in them like cards to "ground" you, you could try Fluxx or Eleusis. And if you want your chaos, and your cards, and also want to have the players drawing the pictures on the cards to be played while they are in the middle of playing them...there's the most creatively-inspiring of the lot: a game called 1000 Blank White Cards. to Games by monde |
| Thursday Dec 7, 2000 | "Considering the out-and-out sinful nature of the game, features such as gameplay, graphics, etc. are irrelevant. This is not a game for kids, nor is it one for adults. The first epistle of John says that whoever believes in Christ must walk as He did. I am certain the Lord would not touch this game with a forty-foot pole." From the Christian Answers review of Quake 3. It's a game review site with a difference, anyway.
to Games by elder |
| Saturday Nov 11, 2000 | As the name implies, The Minibosses like video games. Enough to perform three-piece band versions of 8-bit NES songs - like Castlevania. to Games by mpc |
| Tuesday Nov 7, 2000 | My pokename is "Lopit." I live in the blazing deserts of Angola, and my diet consists mostly of fruits, insects and Dr. Pepper.
I can spit tahini. I can throw nunchucks. I can throw broken glass. I can spit lightning. I can eat rocks.
My natural enemy is Lickipuff. What's your pokename? to Games by gen |
| Saturday Oct 28, 2000 | Admit it. You used to play Dungeons & Dragons,
and your mom threw out all your cool rulebooks when you went
to college. Maybe you bought the fancy new
third edition rules
recently, but it just isn't the same. Fortunately for you,
Wizards of the Coast
is releasing all of the classic rulebooks and adventures
online,
many of them for free.
Now you don't have to hang around flea markets to pick up
what Mom threw away. to Games by magus |
| Friday Oct 27, 2000 | All right, look. First of all, it's no good
linking
"text adventures"
to a small directory of
shareware games,
when there are
hundreds
of free
text adventures
that
run
on
any
computer,
real
or
imaginary.
And second of all,
this
is the text adventure with the best
name
ever.
to Games by belford |
| It's only fitting that I show you to the text adventure with the best name ever. to Games by djinn |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | Rock. Paper. Scissors. Dynamite. Spock. Lizard.
to Games by boneyard |
| Friday Oct 20, 2000 | Waste away countless hours at the office playing reflex.
to Games by kade |
| Thursday Oct 19, 2000 | It is a time of rebirth for old school roleplaying geeks. Not only do we get
a new version of the
venerable Dungeons & Dragons game,
but the long rumored Dungeons & Dragons
Movie is being released on December 8th. All this only one year before
the release of the Lord of
the Rings movie and it's enough to send a geek into orgasmic
catatonia.
to Games by laurel |
| Tuesday Oct 3, 2000 | The
Sixth Annual
Interactive Fiction Competition
has
started. (Yes,
IF
is still my pet subject.) Fifty-three (!) short text
adventures have been entered, and anyone can vote. You have until
November 15th to play and rate as many as you can. (Each game should
take no more than two hours to play.
All but six are playable on Mac/Unix/Windows/anything else.)
Download the games from the
IFComp
download page
(which has links to
mirrors).
Here are
complete
voting rules.
to Games by belford |
| Wednesday Sep 27, 2000 | Suffering from an
overdose of
popular net games? Try
text
adventures via applets. (But then again,
MUDs are more fun when
you're online).
Or try Slashdot Quest -
Just to show that one doesn't need clumsy stuff like
Java, Flash or even CGI to make or play cool web games.
to Games by wwwwolf |
| Sunday Sep 24, 2000 | The Indrema L600 is an upcoming gaming console with a 100 megabit ethernet port, HDTV outputs, large hard drive, built-in dvd player, mp3 storage/playback system and lots of other nice things. Oh, and it's powered by Linux and will feature open source APIs, so it's possible we'll end up with a culture of freelance developers on the platform. to Games by obvious |
| Saturday Sep 23, 2000 | Since we're on the topic of classic videogames. I present to all of you - Nintendo Classics. to Games by kade |
| Wednesday Sep 20, 2000 | What would
happen if Diablo met
The Sims? to Games by laurel |
| Saturday Sep 2, 2000 | MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator for your PC that can emulate over 1500 classic arcade video games from the 70's and 80's. But what's really cool about mame is the fact that they have recently ported it to digital cameras.
That's right, you can now play Doom on your Kodak DC265 Digita OS based digital camera. I wonder if you can use digital memory cards to save your games? to Games by kade |
| Years before Maxis made the Sims, Activision pioneered the simulated human market with Little Computer People. to Games by joshua |
| I may be
mad, but the Deck of the Emotions, I'm
afraid to say, makes me not
un
happy. to Games by goboro |
| Saturday Aug 26, 2000 | Juggling. The
history of juggling, the
physics of juggling, the
topology of juggling, the
dangers of juggling, and the
Jukebox of Juggling. It's fun to say Juggling! to Games by goboro |
| Friday Aug 25, 2000 | Do you prefer Gibson over Tolkien? Zaibatsus over wood elves? Never quite understood the EverQuest addicts? This may be the game for you: Anarchy Online, a SciFi-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game enters Phase 2 beta this week. Will you be a part of the Omni-Tek corporation, or fight for freedom with one of the rebel clans? Would-be players are already forming up guilds and distributing propaganda. to Games by erynn |
| Wednesday Aug 16, 2000 | Hey Ma, NASA says video games are
good for me. So quit your
nagging and let me
play! to Games by laurel |
| Tuesday Aug 15, 2000 | Y2K Police Simulator. I haven't had this much fun, since mohsye. to Games by kade |
| Saturday Aug 12, 2000 | Mohsye - Catapult cats, breed like rabbits and more. to Games by kade |
| Friday Aug 11, 2000 | Eventually this had to happen, mix one part Linux hysteria and two parts geeks with nothing better to do and you have text-mode Quake. to Games by skallas |
| Thursday Aug 10, 2000 | Video Games + Engrish = THIS! to Games by kade |
| Wednesday Jul 12, 2000 | The Mushroom Kingdom is the
best source for Mario Brothers information on the internet and it answers the age old
question
"Why was Super Mario Bros. 2 so weird?" And if you want
some hard core nostalgia, listen to
The Mushroom Kingdom Radio: "All Mario, All The Time." to Games by jiberish |
| Friday Jun 30, 2000 | SenZar. SenZar, The Game. SenZar, The Authors. SenZar, The Review. SenZar, The Poetry. SenZar, The MSTing. to Games by mpc |
| Sunday Jun 25, 2000 | Proving once again that the psychochemical cocktail labeled 'sainthood' in ye olden days and 'psychological disorder' today is the 'computer genius' of the future, Brenda's Game Page includes such meticulous, commercial-quality game levels as this Nike Airforce base in Connecticut for Quake 2. Check out the pix comparing the game screens with photographs of the real thing and be ye impressed. to Games by |
