on Games
Interactive Fiction, Dice Games, Board Games, Cheapass Games (c) and even the occasional Videogame.
Special Deck Card Games
Traditional Card Games
Board Games + Alcohol = ?
Chess Drinking: a mixture of alcohol tolerance and strategy (29 Dec 2009).
Videogames
My vote for the three hardest, but enjoyable, computer/console games (27 Aug 2009). These are three games that I would pick out of a line-up for the crime of being mind-bendingly hard but still worth playing.
My vote for the three best totally free, mutli-OS computer games (15 Oct 2009). Three games that are playable on just about everything (well, two of them are, and the third is playable on pretty much all recent computers).
Gamboy, GB Advance, and Nintendo DS
Playstations 1 & 2
Mac Games
Flash Games
Interactive Fiction
First off, the tips:
The Games
- 2604 (Admiral Jota)
- (Colosal Cave) Adventure
- Anchorhead (Michael Gentry)
- The Awakening (Dennis Matheson)
- Azteca (Malinche) (also includes some preliminary thoughts on Maclinche)
- Baluthar (Chris Molloy Wischer)
- The Cellar (David Whyld)
- Deep Breathing (Admiral Jota)
- Desert Adventure (Sam Trenholme)
- Dino Hunt (Admiral Jota)
- Down (Kent Tessman)
- Dunnet (Ron Schnell)
- The Ebb and Flow of the Tide (Peter Nepstad)
- Ecdysis (Peter Nepstad)
- The First Mile (Malinche)
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Infocom)
- Lost Pig (Admiral Jota)
- The Lurking Horror (Infocom)
- Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It
- Pentari: the Prequel (Malinche)
- The Phoenix Move (Daniele Giardini)
- Slap that Fish! (Peter Nepstad)
- Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin)
- Theatre (Cave Rock/Brendon Wyber)
- Pirate Adventure (Scott Adams)
- Zork I (Infocom)
- Zork II (Infocom)
- Zork III (Infocom)
- Zork: Troll's Eye View (Dylan O'Donnell)
Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures (Scott Adams)
Short/er/ish IF reviews (linked to, individually, above).
The Best Things in Life Are Free
"Games" Edition
Cheapass Games are always good for a cheap, quirky night. How much better when you see how much stuff they offer for free! I will admit that most of their free games are less fun their others, but I should point out Huzzah! and Fight! as being good games.
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