What Games Do YOU Play?

smashbrosfan · March 17, 2007 8:15PM

Alright, with the lack of any real news lately, I've found myself turning to freeware games to fill my time.

So I started to wonder, what games do you guys play? Not the big graphic intensive games like Half-Life 2 or Doom 3. But the small freeware and shareware games like Big Bang Board Games and Snood.

What are your top picks?

bergermeister · March 17, 2007 9:02PM

These are widgets:

triple yahtzee

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb...leyahtzee.html

memory

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb...es/memory.html

Great way to waste a few minutes (aka, reset the brain)

If you really want to exercise your tinker for an hour or so, try

Goban

http://www.sente.ch/software/goban/

This is the Japanese game of "go" or as it is known here "igo". It is a fascinating game that blows chess out of the water for complexity (no computer can come close to a human player yet). It is also a very oraganic game of life and death. Jpaanese newspapers carry "igo" problems, not chess, and every weekend there are live TV shows of matches between top players.

galley · March 17, 2007 10:08PM

You only need two games on your Mac.

Kitty Spangles Solitaire

Bejeweled 2

marvin · March 18, 2007 6:11AM

Abe's Exoddus:

http://www.oddworld.com/games/ow_abeexo.shtml

Heart of Darkness:

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/hea...ess/index.html

The Broken Sword series. 2 and 3 at the moment.

They are PC games and I use Bootcamp but they may play in Parallels.

illutionz · March 18, 2007 9:56AM

Worldwide Soccer Manager 2007

iposter · March 18, 2007 1:11PM

On Mac:

EV Nova

Bejeweled

Alchemy

Kill Dr. Kote

Big Bang Chess

Minesweeper clone

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I tried 'Battle for Wesnoth', very nice for free ware, but uber difficult. I got tired of getting halfway through a campaign only to find that I'd been raising levels on the wrong types of troops.

PC:

Real Arcade games (QBeez, Tumblebugs, Virtual Villagers, etc.)

Chuzzle

Chicken Hunter

ireland · March 18, 2007 1:28PM

Scrabble.

oldcodger73 · March 18, 2007 1:51PM

Hearts Deluxe and sometimes on my wife's computer Mombassa, an old classic game.

hi_q · March 18, 2007 11:41PM

www.pogo.com

And if anything else - Unreal Tournament 2004. :P

slewis · March 19, 2007 9:28AM

On Anything:

Just DDR. Nothing else interests me these days.

Sebastian

icfireball · March 19, 2007 11:16AM

I'm all for simulation games.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3!

The Sims 2!

Sim City 3000 (I never got around to trying 4)

I don't really game that much. RCT3 and S2 get boring after a while and I dont want to waste my money on expansion packs.

smashbrosfan · March 19, 2007 11:51AM

Okay, lets get this thread back on topic. I was talking about "freeware" games. Not the full fledged boxed games you pay $50 for.

icfireball · March 19, 2007 12:05PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smashbrosfan

Okay, lets get this thread back on topic. I was talking about "freeware" games. Not the full fledged boxed games you pay $50 for.

FINE!

MarbleBlast Gold!

Hex yes.

yama · March 19, 2007 1:52PM

Cave Story - because it's almost the best thing ever in the world (nearly).

http://www.sharpproductions.com/jams...e/Doukutsu.dmg

A bunch of ABA shoot'emup games: Torus Trooper, Gun Roar, Tumiki Fighters, Parsec47

http://shinh.skr.jp/osxbin/tt_0_22_1.dmg

http://shinh.skr.jp/osxbin/gr_0_14.dmg

http://shinh.skr.jp/osxbin/tf_0_2.dmg

http://shinh.skr.jp/osxbin/p47_0_2.dmg

Daleks - because it's more fun than minesweeper. And this version comes with the most awesome manual ever written for Daleks!

http://tc.versiontracker.com/product...logy-1.0.4.sit

GLTron - still the best 3D version of Tron out there I reckon.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g...ar.gz?download

Quinn - everybody loves Tetris, right?

http://www.macupdate.com/download.php/10063/Quinn.dmg

OMGWTFOTL - it makes no sense, but therein lies the greatness.

http://www.insani.org/releases/OMGWT...6].dmg.torrent

Other than that, the only games I play on a Mac are Doom and Quake. Oh and emulation of course... 8)

atlas · March 21, 2007 5:14PM

Even though I bought it, Age Of Empires III is the sweetness.

Freeware and shareware? X-Moto (a rip-off of ElastoMania) and Toribash are pretty fun. Toribash takes some getting used to, but its a really weird (but addicting) fighting game.

feartec · March 21, 2007 9:05PM

SuperTux (sweet mario like game)

Pac the Man X

DOSBOX ( because I can play dos based games through this awesome emulator from back in the day when the PC's were worth it)

MacTrek (really confuso)

MacBornes (card game based on Miles Bornes)

Armagedon Advanced (Tron)

Nexuiz (fragger game)

STEP MANIA (Possibly the best time consuming finger puncher game ever, it's confusing to get everything set up but so, so, so so sosososo worth it.)

feartec · March 21, 2007 9:07PM

UT2004 ROCKS AND ALWAYS WILL!!! HAHAHAHA

karelia · March 21, 2007 9:13PM

Mac Chess, Big Bang on the demo iMacs at work, and Plasma Pong that's installed on WinXP on the 20" iMac.

flounder · March 21, 2007 9:40PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Atlas

Even though I bought it, Age Of Empires III is the sweetness.

Freeware and shareware? X-Moto (a rip-off of ElastoMania) and Toribash are pretty fun. Toribash takes some getting used to, but its a really weird (but addicting) fighting game.

I accidently sent that game to netflix instead of my movie last week. Of course I can't get it back. I'm such a freaking moron

I got it as a gift and now I'm going to have to pay to get it back.

karelia · March 21, 2007 11:17PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flounder

I accidently sent that game to netflix instead of my movie last week. Of course I can't get it back. I'm such a freaking moron

I got it as a gift and now I'm going to have to pay to get it back.

Got Luxor AR installed, got 75% done and never touched it since.

wjhmh · March 22, 2007 4:55AM

I have only two at time for my MacBook Pro 17 Intel 2.16 GHz Core Duo.

UT 2004 - great game but I don't play it much, I had this for my old Win D'ohs machine & played it a lot when it came out.

Star Wars Battlefront - I bought this a couple days discount at a closing CompUSA store & the game completely blows. Way too easy even on hard settings but I've been spoiled by playing QUAKE all those years.

I haven't played Quake 4 yet on the MBP, I'm sure it would be pointless with my limited videocard.

Widget game - Asteroids, my all time favorite classic!

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