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| Saturday Oct 27, 2012 | Perhaps you want to see edgy, "hardcore gamer" videos set to dubstep tracks ... of forklift, truck, farming, or train simulators. Afterwards, clear your palate and cleanse your mind with the street cleaning or demolition simulators. to Games by isosceles |
| Sunday Apr 8, 2012 | freeindiegam.es is a new site by Terry Cavanagh (creator of VVVVVV and Don't Look Back), collecting a number of experimental freeware games, with commentary. to Games by crikey |
| 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gentleman who created the largest time-waster of modern computing reveals his admiration of fake or not as well as this outdated website.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 |
| Wednesday Sep 6, 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 |
| Tuesday Aug 22, 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 |
| Saturday Jan 21, 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 |
| Sunday Jul 4, 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 |
| Wednesday Feb 25, 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 |
| Monday Oct 6, 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 |
| Friday Sep 26, 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 |
| Monday Feb 24, 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 |
| Monday Dec 23, 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 |
| Sunday Dec 22, 2002 | Don't have an internet connection? Can't get to
eBay? Play the
home game! And yes, it
talks.
to Games by enigma |
| 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 |
| Friday May 3, 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 |
| Monday Mar 18, 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 |
| Thursday Feb 21, 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 |
| Wednesday Feb 13, 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 |
| Monday Jan 21, 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 |
| Friday Jan 11, 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 |
| Wednesday Dec 19, 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 |
| Tuesday Nov 27, 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 |
| Friday Nov 2, 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 |
| Thursday Nov 1, 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 |
| Wednesday Oct 10, 2001 | 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 |
| Wednesday Sep 26, 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 |
| Sunday Jul 29, 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 |
| Tuesday Jun 19, 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 |
| Friday May 18, 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 |
| Tuesday May 15, 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 |
| Sunday Apr 29, 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 |
| Saturday Apr 21, 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 |
| Monday Mar 5, 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 |
| Wednesday Jan 31, 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 |
| Friday Jan 5, 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 |
| Monday Dec 25, 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 |
| Thursday Dec 7, 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 |
| "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 |
| Monday Nov 6, 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 |
| Thursday Oct 26, 2000 | It's only fitting that I show you to the text adventure with the best name ever. to Games by djinn |
| Rock. Paper. Scissors. Dynamite. Spock. Lizard.
to Games by boneyard |
| Thursday Oct 19, 2000 | Waste away countless hours at the office playing reflex.
to Games by kade |
| 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 |
| Tuesday Sep 19, 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 |
| Friday Sep 1, 2000 | I may be
mad, but the Deck of the Emotions, I'm
afraid to say, makes me not
un
happy. to Games by goboro |
| Friday Aug 25, 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 |
| 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 |
| Monday Aug 14, 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 |
| Thursday Aug 10, 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 |
| Video Games + Engrish = THIS! to Games by kade |
| Tuesday Jul 11, 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 |
| Thursday Jun 29, 2000 | SenZar. SenZar, The Game. SenZar, The Authors. SenZar, The Review. SenZar, The Poetry. SenZar, The MSTing. to Games by mpc |
| Saturday Jun 24, 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 cricket |
| Thursday Jun 15, 2000 | For the obsolete videogame fan, Phosphor
Dot Fossiles is an essential reference to Games by peterb |
| Saturday May 20, 2000 | When geeks finally log off for some R&R in real life, the game of choice is Chess. But why bother with a boring conventional game when you can tweak the board and play an eccentric variation of the classic?The Chess Variants Page offers a links/rules to known Chess permutations, including The 3-D Chess game from Star Trek, Cooley's Hexaganol Chess and the 104-square Omega Chess. Take THAT, Deep Blue! to Games by pjammer |
| Want a intricate, AD&D-inspired web game to occupy your time between the hours between coffee breaks at work? ArchMage is a turn-based interactive simulation casting players as reincarnated magic-users turned loose on the planet of Terra. With one of the most complex rules book in existence, it's already attracted thousands of hardcore RPG geeks from around the world. to Games by pjammer |
| Monday May 15, 2000 | One of my favorite board games is The Settlers of Catan, a
simple yet engaging game.
You can play it online via a unix-based client called
Gnocatan, a
windows-based client called NetSet,
and there's also a fairly confusing solitaire/computer player
version for DOS.
to Games by peterb |
| The Vectrex gaming system, sold between 1982 and 1984, was one of the only vector-based home-game systems ever released. However, the platform is not completely dead. Download an emulator and some ROM images or perhaps some new games and relive the 80's.
to Games by joshua |
| Tuesday May 2, 2000 | Today's online time-waster comes from the good folks at PimpWar. New to the world of wide-brimmed hats, gold chains and fur-lined lowriders? The Pimp's Bible tells you everything a neophyte pimp needs to know about manage his hoes, trading crack, ordering hits on rival pimps and forming alliances with other online playaz. to Games by pjammer |
| If you think you're good at puzzles, perhaps you should try your hand at solving the famous unsolved cryptograph first published in May, 1940. The author is Mr. W. B. Tyler, who may or may not be Edgar Allen Poe. to Games by keith |
| Thursday Apr 27, 2000 |
Planetarium is a free web story and puzzle. I like it. to Games by keith |
| Wednesday Apr 26, 2000 | I scoff at mainstream gamer sites like Blue's News. Although nutty Web comic strips may
sometimes fulfill my dorky video gaming news needs, when I really need the
crispity, crunchity goodness of Real Gaming News, I take a big bite out of the Gaming Intelligence Agency.
From singing, dancing Crack Rabbits to grinning, psychotic monkeys with maracas, the GIA is
keeping a watchful eye on the best gaming goodness straight from the Land of the Rising Sun.
to Games by che |
| Monday Apr 10, 2000 | Mythos Games, the evil masterminds responsible for so much sleep deprivation from the X-Com series, have released a bunch of their older games for download. You'll need either a Sinclair Spectrum or an emulator, though. to Games by nyarl |
| Wednesday Apr 5, 2000 | xbattle was one of the grand old Unix/X11 games, up there with
netrek and
xpilot.
This
beautifully abstract and fun game has been
resurrected as ebattle, a networked Windows version. I miss the
old school graphics, though. to Games by nelson |
| Tuesday Apr 4, 2000 | Some people have gotten amazingly creative with The Sims. Now here's a public service announcement.
to Games by eclipse |
| Friday Mar 31, 2000 | Vide: Hic papyrus bona luda habet. (And if I'm really lucky, I got the Latin right). to Games by mpc |
| Thursday Mar 16, 2000 | The Games Cafe is a devoted to table-top, logic, word and puzzle games. Besides the well-written articles, they also publish weekly online puzzles -- my favorite are the Honeycomb Hotels. to Games by nyarl |
| Tuesday Mar 14, 2000 | Sissyfighters is the most amazing game every created, especially for those of us who always had the least self-esteem of anyone in the playground. to Games by djinn |
| Tuesday Mar 7, 2000 | Can't get enough of Japanese pop culture, but can't stand embarassing yourself at the karaoke bar? Fear no more -- Dance Dance Revolution is groovin' its way into arcades all around the world, and recently even the US. For about $1, players get their chance to be a Dancing Queen by stepping on four lighted platforms in time with the throbbing music. It may not sound like dancing, but it's rumored to soon be classified by the DEA as Schedule 1 Digi-Crack. What's that? You can't believe anyone could make those moves into an actual dance? See for yourself. to Games by che |
| You've must have played "Famous Belgians". It's easy. Everyone thinks of a famous Belgian. The person who doesn't say "Tintin" wins.
If two people don't say Tintin, you probably need to look at the complete list of famous Belgians.
Warning: Some of these are only famous to other Belgians.
to Games by simon |
| Wednesday Mar 1, 2000 | Taito's
Stratovox
(1980)
was the first arcade game to use voice synthesis, although
Gorf,
which came out a year later, is often mistakenly named as the pioneer.
Also of note, the painfully difficult
Sinistar
(1983) was the first to use digitized speech samples.
to Games by riotnrrd |
| Sunday Feb 13, 2000 | A report from the influential Nürnberg Toy Fair at an excellent Austrian game site. to Games by peterb |
| Friday Feb 4, 2000 | As if you can't get enough of the Little Monsters.
There's the FAQ
And the sequel.
to Games by gen |
| Monday Jan 17, 2000 | The revised Wargames handbook is interesting reading for both veteran wargamers and those just looking into them. to Games by peterb |
| Sunday Jan 16, 2000 | The classic Steve Jackson wargame Ogre is going to be rereleased this year. to Games by peterb |
| Tuesday Jan 11, 2000 | Great googeley moogeley, I need to play Space Channel 5 so
badly it hurts. to Games by peterb |
| Monday Jan 10, 2000 | Sid Sackson used to design games for Milton-Bradley and Parker brothers -- but you've probably never heard his name, because those companies don't give credit to game designers. Sackson was prolific, inventive, and developed addictive games that anyone could play but that had loads of depth. Try them yourself: you can find (MS-DOS) computer versions of Can't Stop, Choice, Acquire, and Monad. There's also a java version of Choice that is truly superb. to Games by peterb |
| Thursday Dec 30, 1999 | I like Java, because it is really easy to implement your own version of excellent old arcade games with it. to Games by peterb |
| Tuesday Dec 14, 1999 | Dope Wars has gone portable--and there is even a version for those that prefer their China White. to Games by enigma |
| Monday Dec 13, 1999 | Dope Wars, the game
where you try to make money selling dope and killing cops. Wasn't this a rap song or 20? to Games by moose |
| Tuesday Nov 30, 1999 | The Rocket is awesome! TSUBABABABA! to Games by stimpy |
| Is your ordinary Super Mario Brothers NES cartridge ROM image boring you? Well, try it in our new variety pack of Mario Hacks. to Games by keith |
| Sunday Nov 28, 1999 | Wordox is an addicting Scrabble-like game, with the added strategy of being able to steal the points of other players. For reasons I'm not sure, there's also a special Oxygenated version especially for to Games by nyarl |
| Friday Nov 26, 1999 | Pong for the PlayStation?
Pong for the PlayStation?!?
to Games by tregoweth |
| Monday Nov 15, 1999 | If you happen to be one of those freaks who actually believes that D&D is not a game of evil, designed to lure kids to Satan, Role-Playing Defense may be of some use to you in providing counter-point to the righteous Crusaders who seek to defeat you and save their children from your dark lord. to Games by keith |
| Thursday Nov 11, 1999 | Command mobile battle suits from the anime classic Gundam into battle with the Gundam/Starcraft Total Conversion. to Games by pjammer |
| Thursday Nov 4, 1999 | As if it wasn't enough to be able to play old video games on your PC, you can now take MAME with you on your Kodak Digita Camera. to Games by eclipse |
| Tuesday Nov 2, 1999 | Ever play Nethack? It's
a text-based dungeon crawl game that, with its
brethren rogue, urogue, and
arogue, nearly made me fail out of CMU freshman
year. Well, its time for the 1999 Nethack Tournament! to Games by peterb |
| Friday Oct 15, 1999 | Old Man Murray is the definitive site for bitter, drunken, foul and tasteless video game reviews, not to mention occasional sophomoric attempts at journalism. It is also possibly the only site that ever thought using the flaming head of Martin Van Buren would be a useful alert system. This meme finds it strangely appealing.
to Games by mpc |
| Monday Oct 4, 1999 | The Fifth Annual Interactive Fiction Competition has started. (Yes, IF is my pet subject.) Thirty-seven 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 two are playable on Mac/Unix/Windows/anything else.) Download the games from the IF Archive, or a mirror site (US, US, UK, Aus). The complete voting rules are in the same directory, or at the Competition web page. to Games by belford |
| Saturday Oct 2, 1999 | In the neverending quest of web nerds working to hijack $10,000 servers and transform them into emulators of $5 games, some are more successful than others. The author behind the Java port of Nintendo's classic 1982 LCD handheld Donkey Kong offers one of the most impressive efforts I've seen. to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Sep 24, 1999 | allmixedup has
many, many fun classic games, such as
othello,
tic-tac-toe,
and my new favorite addiction,
clunk. to Games by crikey |
| Wednesday Sep 22, 1999 | Based on the British radio programme "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue", Mornington Crescent is the world's single most complicated game... and it hasn't got any rules at all. (Unless you count these.) to Games by riffraff |
| Tuesday Sep 21, 1999 | I remember long afternoons laying out solitaire hands at my grandparents on rainy days. No longer an innocent pastime, solitaire is clearly evidence of a sinister conspiracy to decrease productivity and keep a Windoze PC on your desk. Solitaire will imprision you in your cubicle under the delusion you are interacting with other people. to Games by machita |
| Sunday Sep 19, 1999 | Zen
is an interesting little web game/procrastination
device. However, don't take the name too seriously
unless you believe achieving enlightenment should be a competitive
activity. to Games by crikey |
| Saturday Sep 11, 1999 | Witness a (possibly somewhat expurgated)
history of Tetris,
everyone's favorite "Soviet mind game".
to Games by sburke |
| Thursday Sep 9, 1999 | Hasbro just bought Wizards of the Coast -- adding them to a harem which already includes Milton Bradley, Parker Brothers, Avalon Hill, Microprose, Playskool, and others. This means that a single company now produces Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, Dungeons and Dragons, Civilization 2, Pictionary, Scrabble, Clue, Tinkertoys, G. I. Joe, Furby, the Supersoaker, and, um, wait, what's that game about acquiring all the properties on the board? to Games by belford |
| Friday Sep 3, 1999 | Hiding among us, all over the planet, are the players of
Icehouse
-- the ancient
Martian
game of
little
pyramids.
Plus all sorts of
other
little
pyramid
games.
And now, for the first time in years, you can
order
plastic Icehouse sets.
(Cheaper if you order soon.)
to Games by belford |
| Friday Aug 27, 1999 | When you just can't get enough of strident, freakish, poorly written books, obviously the only this to do is to make videogames out of them. to Games by peterb |
| Thursday Aug 26, 1999 | The Room tells you about yourself, based on what you tell it you visualize. to Games by machita |
| You play video games? What kind of pervert are you? to Games by faisal |
| Monday Aug 23, 1999 | If you ever had any doubts regarding the usefulness of the Internet, The World Rock Paper Scissor league should reinforce them.
to Games by succa |
| Saturday Aug 21, 1999 | The Atari 2600 is one of the simplest video game systems ever invented, yet it is one of the most complicated for which to program. Masochist programmers interested in writing tight code to fit in the 4K of address space and smart code to squeeze as much as possible out of the primitive TIA chip should go to Nick Bensema's Atari 2600 Programming Page. to Games by pjammer |
| Thursday Aug 19, 1999 | Transformers. They're more than meets the eye, and, apparently, the toy that will not die. to Games by faisal |
| Sunday Aug 15, 1999 | As if you RTS geeks don't waste enough time playing Starcraft
on Battle.net, along comes a guy who dedicated
six months of his life to bring you the user-built, jaw-dropping
Antioch Chronicles expansion.
Damn - and I just used up all my sick days to finish "Brood Wars."
to Games by pjammer |
| Friday Aug 13, 1999 | I wish I had kept my old Nintendo Game & Watch games. Others build shrines to the original designer. Other people make collector sites. I'll bet most of you don't remember the origns of Zelda ^_^ to Games by gen |
| As long as we're reminiscing over cool networked Mac games, let's not forget Bolo! Stuart Cheshire's awesomely simple yet amazingly fun networked tank strategy game. Use Boloweb to find games and bone up with the Bolo FAQ. Keep your fingers crossed for WinBolo.
to Games by gen |
| Sure, everyone abuses their workplace internet connection for personal use. However, everybody is not equally pathetic. Memepool Quiz: Who is the biggest loser?
[A] The individual who plays Battleship with an former coworker over email
[B] The individual's current coworker, who took digital-camera spy photos of his Battleship layout and secretly built a dedicated Battleship Cheat Page to mock him behind his back
[C] The shamelessly self-referring narccissist who submits the site to a shitty, low-traffic weblog as part of his grueling race to eclipse its most prolific contributor before the end of the millenium
First respondent to send the correct answer to comments@memepool.com will receive a free memepool T-shirt.
to Games by pjammer |
| Monday Aug 2, 1999 | It's yet another slashdot-style site, but this one's devoted to gaming for women. They aren't so excited by Lara Croft, and don't even think of mentioning PMS. to Games by penth |
| Sunday Aug 1, 1999 | YES! Interplay is making a computer game version of the classic board game Star Fleet Battles!
to Games by peterb |
| Saturday Jul 31, 1999 | Science and Industry for Half-Life is one of the weirdest damn game modifications ever. Keep your scientists happy and they'll develop technology for you. Need more researchers? Go over to another lab, whack a grad student on the head with a crowbar, sling him over your shoulder, and carry him back to your own lab....just like real life! to Games by nyarl |
| Friday Jul 23, 1999 | Funagain Games resells games: new games and
recycled games. New games get sold at discounts.
Old games get sold at bigger discounts.
And how many other places have Trivial Pursuit
in stock?
to Games by tjs |
| Thursday Jul 22, 1999 | Tekumel is an intricate fantasy background
created by college professor and
possible deve M.A.R. Barker. Barker's gone
somewhat over the top with his background, developing
languages,
histories,
theologies and stories for a world that's a NC-17
combination of Mesoamerican, Indian and Arabic culture.
In addition to the sites
containing Barker's original material, there's a
truly stunning website
devoted to the world. to Games by mpc |
| Sunday Jul 18, 1999 | Run, coward, run! I live. to Games by peterb |
| Pico is not the text-editor you think it is, but rather the coolest damn Shockwave game I've ever seen... to Games by nyarl |
| Wednesday Jul 7, 1999 | Nifty new games invented by independent small companies and individuals?
Contagious Dreams
is a new on-line game store devoted to just that. And they
playtest and review
the games that they sell. (Sponsored by
Looney Labs,
who have invented a couple of games themselves.)
Contrariwise, if you're looking for nifty old games, check out
Crazy Egor's Game Warehouse,
which stocks all sorts of used, rare, and out-of-print gaming-phernalia.
to Games by belford |
| Sunday Jun 27, 1999 | Meditate on the epistemology of Sinistar. to Games by peterb |
| Monday Jun 21, 1999 | Boss won't let you install Doom/Quake/Half-life at work? Fight back by logging on to Frag Island,
the world's first web-based Java-powered first-person-shooter game. to Games by pjammer |
| Sunday Jun 13, 1999 | In the battle for the highly contested Giant Fighting Robot consumer
dollar, FASA rules as the
Microsoft of 'Mech sims. In a very un-Microsofty move,
Mechwarrior 3 is out, ahead of projected release schedule! Featuring
fully destructable terrain and a fully functional salvage system, Mech3 should appeal to both
hard-core Mechwarrior universe purists and novices alike. to Games by pjammer |
| Have you ever wondered exactly how the powers that be generate hands for duplicate bridge tournaments? Even if you haven't, you can play contract bridge online. to Games by djinn |
| Thursday Jun 10, 1999 | Macross VF-X 2 due
out this september for the playstation in the US. Robotech and Macross fans rejoice! to Games by akk |
| Wednesday Jun 9, 1999 | Does the idea of being rewarded for playing
on-line java games sound too good to be true?
Well, that's the way
PrizePoint
works. Don't expect to make your living at it
or anything, though. to Games by keith |
| Monday Jun 7, 1999 | Need a little help finishing
Zork I?
Or perhaps you could use some strategy hints for
Pole Position?
Or maybe you're looking for a little help getting up to speed with
SimCity 3000?
If so, GameFAQs has got you covered.
Whether the game is for the N64
or the C64,
if someone's written a FAQ, walkthrough, or strategy guide, you can find it there.
to Games by keith |
| Friday Jun 4, 1999 | Continuing a nascent antique games theme for today,
check out Xyzzy News,
the newsletter for interactive fiction gamers. to Games by mpc |
| Long before Mattel
had a web site or made
Barbie software, they made a console gaming system called
the Intellivision. Many thought that the Intellivision had
perished in the great video game crash of '83.
But the Intellivision
lives on through the magic of emulation. They recently
unveiled their newest plans to capture a young audience.
That's right:
Intellitubbies! to Games by keith |
| Monday May 24, 1999 | After a few years and a few million dollars worth
of fancy office toys, there's finally a demo for
Daikatana
available.
"Hi, the Quake3 Arena test came out, so we had to
rush something out the door FAST." to Games by magus |
| How many times has this happened to you? You and three friends are in
a room with no apparent source of entertainment but a pack of cards
and a Web browser. Why settle for Poker or Bridge when you could play
Stýrivolt,
a Danish game which includes birds, postmen, hay-yard mares, and
lambs? Or check the index of card
games and find something more to your liking.
to Games by sck |
| Friday May 14, 1999 | defeat the beartrooper-carrying-a-baseball-bat-for-no-good-reason, bear vader and bear maul to rescue the princess in StarBears: The Fandom Menace (requires shockwave)
to Games by faisal |
| Monday May 10, 1999 | If you've ever wanted to work in the control room of a nuclear power plant, but didn't want the burden of responsibility when the meltdown happens, the Nuclear Power Plant Game is for you. The reactor exploded? Oh darn.
to Games by eclipse |
| Sunday May 9, 1999 | The Dragon's Lair Project, for both of you
who wondered what ever happened to Thayer's
Quest.
to Games by mpc |
| Saturday May 8, 1999 | An interesting history of videogames before Pong. to Games by peterb |
| Wednesday May 5, 1999 | Not since the release of Starcraft has a real-time strategy game generated as much anticipation as Homeworld. Featuring a detail-rich three-dimensional realtime space combat engine, Homeworld's pre-release beta site offers some jaw-dropping screenshots of actual gameplay. to Games by pjammer |
| Monday May 3, 1999 | The many games and toys of Erno Rubik are alive and well.
Play the Rubik's cube online and thrill
to the exciting history of this magical
invention. to Games by crikey |
| Cosmic Encounter is a classic board
game from the mid-70s, and is still loads of fun to play. Amazingly, you can
now play Cosmic Encounter online. to Games by peterb |
| Saturday May 1, 1999 | There are a lot of nifty video game
emulators
out there, notably
MAME.
It allows you to play thousands of coin-op
arcade games on a computer. People are starting
to
gut old arcade consoles and load them with
PC equipment. I liked
this
one in particular, especially his
insane array of controllers to accomodate various games. to Games by obvious |
| Sunday Apr 25, 1999 | Brian Johnson's superb Killer List
of Videogames will help you recapture the misspent hours of your youth. Why, it
even helped me identify the extremely obscure, nearly unplayable, and oh so fondly
remembered Starship I
(Atari, 1976).
Of course, once you know the name of a videogame you played when
you were 7 years old, it's easy
to find lots of cool images of it on the web. (Yes, I actually remember playing Atari's
Hercules pinball
game, 7 feet tall and with a cue ball as the pinball.
to Games by peterb |
| Tuesday Apr 20, 1999 | Should any game publishers be reading memepool, please, for the love of God, grab up and release the English version of Jagged Alliance 2. Some of us still like single-player, turn-based games with solid strategy and entertainment over eye candy. to Games by nyarl |
| Sunday Apr 18, 1999 | The sudden scream of battle brings your party to a halt....
....will your stalwart band choose to [F]ight or [R]un? Those of us who grew up on IBM ATs or clunky pre-Mac Apples in the 80's may remember that line from a delightful computer role-playing game sent six characters from the Adventurer's Guild into the dangerous city of Skara Brae. Like anything that appeals to larval, pupal and post-chrysalic geeks, the game has spawned a webring worth of fansites, including an dungeon level-by-level review/guide at The COMPLETE Bard's Tale Home Page. to Games by pjammer |
| Thursday Apr 15, 1999 | Pinball 2000 is Williams/Bally's last-ditch effort to keep pinball alive. It's totally modular, based on a Cyrix MediaGX motherboard, and overlays video effects on the glass above the action. Since they're the only companies making decent pinball games these days, let's hope they stay alive a bit longer... to Games by nyarl |
| Wednesday Apr 14, 1999 | The Hollywood Stock Exchange is dedicated to
the idea that people aren't obsessive enough
about how much money movies make.
It's a stock market where the stocks are movies,
and are valued based on how much money they make
at the box office. Sure, it's nothing like a
real stock market, but it's still fun.
to Games by tjs |
| Sunday Mar 28, 1999 | One of the odder role-playing games in existence,
DragonRaid bills itself as a witnessing tool to help kids learn about Christ through
scripture memorization and massive railroading. Ironically, the game
was forced out of existence by Christian protesters years ago. It's now enjoying
a renaissance on the web. to Games by mpc |
| Tuesday Mar 23, 1999 | Sandlot Science is a collection
of optical illusions, including
breathing squares
and
plans to build (apparently)
impossible objects. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Bleem lets you play Sony Playstation games on a pentium-class machine, whereas Connectix's Virtual Game Station requires a G3 Macintosh. to Games by joshua |
| Sunday Mar 14, 1999 | A generic java framework for creating conquer the universe
games such as Masters
of Orion or Spaceward Ho!. to Games by peterb |
| Friday Feb 12, 1999 | If you've always wanted to pierce something but have been afraid of how it might look or how much it might hurt, try Piercing Mildred instead. All of the fun, none of the pain - and win prizes, too! to Games by eclipse |
| Tuesday Jan 26, 1999 | For all you maladjusted Unix-using freaks out
there, there's
XEvil:
because violence should be senseless.
(Kill your parents. Run with scissors.)
to Games by tjs |
| Thursday Jan 21, 1999 | Bioluminescent toys.
As in, children's toys. As in, squirtguns that squirt
glow-in-the-dark fluid. Yes: gene-spliced microorganisms to entertain
you! to Games by goboro |
| Thursday Jan 14, 1999 | Computer not running gory fragfests like it used to in the old days? Why not replace your CPU with a 300MHz chip running at... 450Mhz. to Games by ned |
| Yet another card game to end all card
games.
to Games by goboro |
| If you enjoyed Infocom games, be it known that
such stuff is not a dead art; a great deal of
Interactive
Fiction is freely available to all. If you
are in North America, you might try this local mirror. to Games by goboro |
| Tuesday Jan 12, 1999 | Classic SimCity, implemented free in Java. to Games by nyarl |
| Wednesday Jan 6, 1999 | Relive the glory-days of four colors, BASIC, and sore thumbs at The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers. to Games by nyarl |
| Monday Nov 23, 1998 | I'm having a bad day today, so I can understand why people would
want to
shoot appliances with
shotguns to relieve stress.
Kill your
television, indeed. to Games by riotnrrd |
| Thursday Nov 5, 1998 | VM Labs finally announce the to Games by nyarl |
| Thursday Oct 22, 1998 | As state-of-the-art web technology rapidly approaches the raw processing power of an Apple ][, humanity becomes blessed with such sparkling gems as the ability to play Lemonade Stand on the web. Truly, this is a Golden Age. to Games by nyarl |
| Monday Oct 19, 1998 | National Game Review: "the only games magazine worth reading".
to Games by faisal |
| Friday Oct 16, 1998 | Rock Paper Scissors strategy
could save your hide someday. to Games by obvious |
| Tuesday Oct 13, 1998 | The Memepool staff have long suspected that
television is merely a tool of a coalition of
evil dictators, headed by Murdoch. Now we have
proof.
to Games by jacquez |
| Tuesday Sep 29, 1998 | UNIXUX is a collection of,
well, stuff, mostly derived from the Unix-Haters
mailing list (which begat the Unix Haters handbook).
If Unix is giving you a bad day (or month or year)
then this is worth reading.
to Games by tjs |
| Monday Sep 28, 1998 | Cheapass Games
is a game company with a slightly different approach:
instead of making expensive games with lots of
frivilous pieces, they make really cheap games,
then get you to get the pieces somewhere else.
Some of the games are good, some aren't, but for $3,
you can't go very wrong.
to Games by tjs |
| Tuesday Sep 22, 1998 | do you believe in magic?
neither do we. to Games by akk |
| Sunday Sep 20, 1998 | "Adventure" was the first "interactive fiction"
(text adventure)
game, still running on pretty much any computer
made these days. Some information on it can be
found on
The Colossal Cave Adventure Page. (Don
Woods' web page links to this one, so it is
perhaps as official as such things get.)
to Games by tjs |
| Just when you thought you were safely out of
the Great Underground Empire comes this
(non-official)
Infocom page, featuring documentation missing
from some of the re-releases and information on
how to get Zork I, II, and III data files
and interpreters to run them.
to Games by tjs |
| Saturday Sep 19, 1998 | Ancient Domains of Mystery is the coolest damn roguelike game out there. Take your drakeling beastfighter and bash the living crap out of thousands of ASCII characters over several different dungeons and towns.
to Games by nyarl |
| Friday Sep 18, 1998 | What good is a fancy-shmancy PalmPilot if you can't use
it to play Zork
while waiting in line at the bank?
to Games by magus |
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