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Classic 80's Arcade Games - the ultimate Time Waster
by Jason Clarke Oct 13th 2009 at 12:00PM
If you grew up in the 80's in the golden age of video game arcades, you're going to like this Time Waster. Classic 80's Arcade Games is actually a mega time waster, since it's a site dedicated to 80's arcade games, with tons of free online-playable games. Games like 1943, Commando, Contra, Defender, Dig Dug, Frogger... the list just goes on and on.
The games are built on various platforms - Shockwave, Flash, Java, and even DOS and Windows games. Some are offered on multiple platforms, and some have downloadable emulator ROMs available.
It's not clear to me what the legality of these games is; in most cases they are abandonware, but I imagine that copyrights still exist for many of them. Classic gaming is big business, and even though underground trading of game ROMs for MAME setups has been going on for years, that still doesn't legitimize the practice.
In any event, Classic 80's Arcade Games is a wonderful compilation of the games from my youth that I loved. I hope it doesn't go away any time soon.
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)
Scruffy Bob said 1:22PM on 10-13-2009
80's -> '80s
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Scruffy Bob said 1:24PM on 10-13-2009
Ah nevermind - that's how the linked website has it.