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5 Sites For Old-School Gaming in Your Browser -Time Waster
by Lee Mathews Sep 7th 2008 at 3:00PM
Enough of this practical advice and useful downloads! I know you've been working hard, and you're probably itching for some fun and excitement. If you've read some of my previous Time Wasters, you'll know that I've got a soft spot for old school gaming.Grab your browser, and get ready for some classic, low-fi action!
Neave Games specializes in making flash remakes of classic games, and has a few tasty selections for you. Among them are Frogger, Space Invaders, Tetris, and the old Nokia cellphone game Snake (pictured). Rad.
c64s.com is dedicated to my first computer and gaming system, the Commodore 64. It's been on DS before, but they've added a lot of great new games over the years. Packacuda, Wizard's Lair, Crystal Castles. It's hard to believe how good some of the games were for the trusty old c64.
Nethack made the roundup last time, but it was a downloadable version. If you're not familiar with it, it's a dungeon exploration game with pure ASCII graphics, and it's weirdly addictive. The folks over at alt.org have a live server that you can sign onto via telnet, using alt.org's Java-based client.
Before you jump in, you can choose to watch a game in progress and see what other intrepid adventurers are up to.
Virtual Apple gives you browser-based access to my favorite Apple product ever, the Apple ][. So many awesome low-color games to play, but I can't tear myself away from Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got bears to shoot and party members to drown in a river crossing.
Hungry for more? Check out my last roundup: 10 Ways to Game Like It's 1989.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chris said 5:43PM on 9-07-2008
Except the 'Nokia' game was included in the DOS BASIC programming suite YEARS before Nokia included it on a cell phone. :|
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Lee Mathews said 12:01PM on 9-08-2008
True, true. I listed it as such because Neave modeled their port after the Nokia version - ugly green screen and all. Woo!
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Jim said 2:15PM on 9-08-2008
Looking for an old apple game where you went into a castle and had to dodge bats and guards and traps etc. looking for magic orbs. Any ideas what it was called.
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Lee Mathews said 2:16PM on 9-08-2008
I think you're talking about Dark Castle, it was for the mac. It was on my previous post: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/08/15/10-ways-to-play-classic-mac-pc-console-games/...Great game!
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gershee said 12:53PM on 9-09-2008
how could u guys leave out
http://www.everyvideogame.com
classic!
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Lee Mathews said 12:54PM on 9-09-2008
Well, I only listed five...As mentioned, there are a bunch more on the previous post. Maybe this one will make the next roundup - thanks for the tip!
Ritual said 6:03PM on 9-11-2008
Lots of classic/retro flash games here.
http://www.onemorelevel.com
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ZedHead said 8:17AM on 9-30-2008
How about BrainChef.com Old school zombies!
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