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Quoted so the links work while Hadji is in jail.
Fun freeware game called Jumper where you navigate a little block guy around and attempt to get from one side to the other by jumping.
Spiky Thing has lots of free flash games and
AdventureQuest is a fun flash based RPG.
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Also, this is old but: Betrayal at Krondor. This is NOT abandonware or warez; Sierra released it as freeware some years back.
Betrayal at Krondor is the hardest thing in the world to get working. I've tried it on every PC I've ever owned and I've never gotten it to run.
CUZ THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE AND IT'S GIVING ME A RASH
It runs in DOS. Have you tried playing it on DOSBox? It's a program that runs old DOS games on Windows smoothly.
LieroX - A Worms-type game that is more action oriented ansd is free. Has Net support and a level editor.
two notes:
O2Jam is not not not not not a DDR clone. It is, at most, a beatmania clone (beatmania being a game belonging to the same series as DDR, though with completely different gameplay.) O2Jam is now like five bucks a month now anyway.
It should also be mentioned that the company that develops Runescape also has quite a few free online board games on their website (jagex.com I believe).
Oh yeah, I should mention Stepmania. It's a DDR simulator with a huge userbase. It supports official simfiles (from ddruk.com) and fanmade simfiles (bemanistyle.com, among others). Keyboard simfiles/edits are popular and quite fun. Highly reccomended.
also, is there a free alternative to o2jam?
It's called "Super Cosplay War Ultra", and it's as weird and funny and awesome as the name wants to sound.
It's basically a 2D fighting game where the characters gain the powers of whoever they're cosplaying as. This is a nice way to spoof, well, just about everything anime. We're talking everything from Evangelion to Gundam to Power Rangers to Digimon.
It's also ludicrously fun, though it's got some of the cheapest boss characters ever. I'm talking bosses that can make SNK's bosses look fair by comparison.
There are two main modes in the SP game: normal and battle royale. Normal is about what you'd expect. In battle royale your character is paired up with another character and you basically fight 2 (or more) characters at the same time.
There are 24 "normal" playable characters, plus about 2 "extra" ones and about 7 that are playable only in battle royale mode. (Rario pwns j00 all, by the way.)
There are only two downsides to the game, IMO. First, most of it (and its website) is in Chinese, so you'll pretty much have to ignore what story there is (in still-pic cutscenes near the end of the game), and miss out on most of the jokes therein.
Second, the game is really, really BIG. The final version is upwards of 240 MB, so 56kers might as well forget it. If you've got a decent connection, though, I HIGHLY recommend it.
You can get it at Team FK's site, here.
Note: You'll have to modify the download instructions slightly if you want to get version being distributed by bittorrent. The password is NOT where the directions say it is for that (slightly older) version - it's "http://go.to/alicuu".
If you get it from the other links, just follow directions.
If you google this game, btw, you might get a page at Home of the Underdogs: this is NOT the current (much better) version of the game.
Author of Minebot Arena and some other stuff
It's an awesome little Platform MMORPG, hugely addictive and very free.
100 Mb download though as far as I remember.
Oh and my username for in game if anyone plays - medeakun
In my day, we didn't have any of that kind of stuff. We had to flip a switch to turn the power off on our computers. Mice were what lived in your walls, and we used "mode co80" to refresh our desktop.
And if you wanted to share a file, you had to copy it to tape and walk it over the to nearest computer. Uphill! Both ways!
We suffered, and it was great! Mostly because game developers were so into making games that they wanted to play themselves that they forgot to work out how to make anyone actually pay for it.
So the devteam made one of the best games ever, and it's free:
http://www.nethack.org/
Now go there and get playing before I takes a hickory switch to the backside of the lot of you!
Team Fortress mod for Wolfeinstein:ET (which is in sticky already)
I wouldn't call them full games, but they're damn fun to play around with and some of them are kinda never ending games. Like Tower of goo. Nothing beats tower of goo.
Timeslaughter is here: http://www.thehorrorcarnival.com/bloodlust/gim2.html
Another one worth checking out is Nogginknockers 2, which is a fighting/pong game, also with excessive gore, an aborted fetus monster, and of course midgets. Here: http://www.thehorrorcarnival.com/bloodlust/gim4.html
There's a ton of other freeware stuff on the site, but most of it pales in comparison to those due to lack of a real programmer (we had one for those two). I wouldn't wish an Executioners download on anyone unless you are really desperate for a laugh.
Oh, if you like Timeslaughter, I've got good news. I've begun work on Timeslaughter II, almost 10 years later, and with vastly improved visuals. You can see some shots and information in the news section: http://www.thehorrorcarnival.com/bloodlust/news.html
Yeah yeah, we're easy targets on some of the stuff we released, but I take pride even in the trash we put out there due to the humor and independent spirit of it all. Keep in mind this stuff paid for a lot of our college (as well as fast food, video games, and cds!). I should also point out we actually took these tasteless things to a computer convention, had a booth, and were told to turn our speakers down because the volume of our tourette's mutant was disrupting the dinosaur learning software booth next to us. Seeing some poor shmuck win Executioners as a door prize was classic too. *Sniff* the memories...
http://global.asdfgame.com/
Dumb name aside, it's actually pretty fun. You race on hoverboards in something of a cross between old school Mario Kart-type racing with something like Uniracers, where tricks make you go faster. You also have boost item pickups, along with your usual shooting items (think red shell) and so on.
The interface is so much like Gunbound that I'm pretty sure it's made by the same guys. Like GB, your player can be customized with various items that help you perform better.
But what makes this game interesting is that not only do tricks give you a free boost if done properly, if you do one perfectly, depending on the trick you did, you will get a certain effect from it. The harder the trick, the better the effect. Effects include a short but big performance upgrade, a shield from all attacks, slowing down other players, etc. Each trick is mapped to the ASDF keys, which explains the name.
It seems fairly new to me, since some of the server rooms aren't out yet, and it's gotten more popular lately so I've been running into lag problems. But it's still fun and worth checking out.
1316.02
on my 3rd try.
HAH!
I was just playing that last night!
OK i feel like an idiot but.. I can't even FIND the download link on the webpage.. what gives?
BRAWL CODE: 3866-7685-8500
This is a wealth of coolness beyond anything that teh intorwab has seen in many moons.
Also, Quest for the Crown seems to be down.
BRAWL CODE: 3866-7685-8500
Someone here is a necro.
the first post hasn't been edited in over a year
I had some links to cool flash games, but I think I'll wait for a new thread