Jack is back! The crazy pop-culture game You Don’t Know Jack is online again. These were originally CD-ROM party games back in the day. I can even remember playing an early Netshow version of these games in the mid 90′s, back before the dot.com boom (it took quite a while for them to load on dial-up). If I remember correctly, it used to be a multi-player game where you could screw your friends while playing. This new one is just the single-player version, but hopefully now that they seem to be releasing new episodes somewhat regularly the good ‘ole multi-player version will be back again soon.

I played a round, and it is a lot tougher than I remember! Maybe I’m not as quick as I used to be.

I like to keep my eyes open for different logos, whether that be on the web or driving around in the real world. This fun little game test how well you remember common logos from several prominent web companies. I got a 68.92%. See how well you fare a logo identification. (hint: Amazon is smiling at you)

Ever wish you could pit your favorite old-school video games characters against each other? Ever wondered what it would be like if the Metroid man woman were in a battle to the death with Mario, or what would happen if Sonic the Hedgehog were to fight Link from Zelda? Well, wonder now more… Super Smash Flash is a flash game that lets you throw old-school video game characters into battle with each other (street fighter style).

Just like you could drive a racecar through New York, You can now fly an airplane over several cities around the word. Googles, the Google Maps Flight Sim is a little Flash app that puts you in a little green and yellow plane where you can fly all over Google Maps satellite pictures of the world.

Not 99, not 100, but 101 FREE Games on the internet. These are the cruddy flash games you see everywhere (there have got to be WAY more than 101 of those). Computer Gaming World has put together a pretty extensive list of actual decent games to download free from the net. So, if you were just saying to yourself, “Self, we need to find something to do this weekend… I wish we had a new game or two to play!” worry no more, 101 free games list to the rescue!

Check out this live action assassin game in LA. At the beginning of this three-week game, people that have signed up to play get an envelope that includes:

• A picture of their intended target(s)
• The home address of their intended target(s)
• The work address of their intended target(s)
• The name of their intended target(s)
• Contact information of their intended target(s)

Then they have to go around and kill (with water guns) the targets provided. Once a target has been killed they hand their target info over to the killer. It lasts till someone is the only one left. How cool is that?

The smallest web games in the world! This image is not a thumbnail, that is actual size!

• Pong
• PacMan
• Asteroids
• Breakout
• TicTacToe
• Footy
• Life
• Pinball
• Simon
• F1 Racer
• Maze
• Space
• Drum
• Piano
• Fruit (slot machine)
• Arena

Don’t go blind playing!

I guess this is along the same lines as my recent “old school games” posts.

Someone has created a web version of Lemmings using DHTML. It has been quite some time since I’ve played this game! I started playing and got hooked on it last night making it all the way to level 11. I remember it being much harder than this.

Another addition in the posts about old-school computer games (post1, post 2). Here’s a site where you can play classic Commodore 64 games in your web browser (this one uses java).

Along the same lines as my last post about Sim City Classic Online, here is an entire virtual Apple IIgs computer that runs through your web browser (again, unfortunately only Internet Explorer). This one has some great old games for the IIgs. And yes, it even includes Oregon Trail.

I can remember playing Sim City on an old Mac Classic in black and white! That’s back when you had to wind up computers before turnign them on! Well, guess what… The Original Sim City is now available (in all its glory) to play on the web. Maxis has made the game available again for free. You need to sign up for an account to play (Unfortunately you also need to be using Internet Explorer)

With the next geek LAN gaming party scheduled for later in October, I ran across a nice site with a pretty sizable list of free (yes, I said FREE) Multiplayer games. We might have to try a few of these out. I did notice that the list was lacking a fun multiplayer puzzle game I ran across last yearplayed: Bontago. I may try submitting it to the site.

Also on the subject of games, I ran across a cool site yesterday called Millions of Games which is a directory of those flash games you see all over the internet categorized and rated. If you need to kill some time on the net, this is the place to start!

LazyLaces has put together a great collection of Point and click games. You know the ones, where you have to um… point and click. I’m sure you’ve all seen the games where you really don’t have any instruction and just have to point and click (yes, again) until you find all the secret hidden areas to take you through the game. Even if you have no idea what I’m talking about, it’ll make sense once you’ve given a few of them a try. Have Fun!

Somebody has built a Half Life 2 map of a huge domino setup. Using the Half Life physics engine, this domino course is built out of doors and pieces of metal from the game. The falling dominos travel all over the map until they finally smash an old guy at the end. Appropriate for a domino setup created in a shoot-em-up game, no?

The awards for the Independent Games Festival were announced (a while ago). I knew this was happening sometime in March, but totally forgot to check the site again until yesterday. The Independent Games Festival is an outlet for independent game developers to show their creativity and get some recognition for some really creative games. These aren’t your $10 million budget first-person shooter games. The entries developed for this festival/contest are usually really interesting think-outside-the-box games.

If you’ve got a few hours to kill, I suggest you check out the list of winners. Most of the games listed provide a demo or even a full download-able version of the game.