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Great for a lonely/drunk Friday evening, when complex games are too mentally exhausting.

http://www.orisinal.com/

Cutest amongst the cute.

Gravity Head, and the rest of the Experimental Gameplay Project
Dada: Stagnation in Blue
Cloud
Katamari Damacy
Facade
Flow
Orisinal

Orisinal has a few dozen neat little Flash games.

I raise my Dreamcast controller and dusty IBM PC keyboard to you my friend.

I feel like I'm in like Geek Braveheart.
"Every man dies, but not every man really games."

Seriously though, look at games like Orisinal which really speak for what gameplay is all about. They're simple, well designed, challenging, addictive, non intrusive games. They are genius too because the music goes perfectly with the game and what is happening. Try the cats game... doesn't that sound like cats are involved? Or the little girl and star game... makes me feel like a little girl catching stars and I'm a freakin meathead football player.

I love what the OP said, I totally agree, how about some open source games? It seems that games, once they have an engine (which could be like Quake 3's engine or any other OpenSource engine) can just be improved upon by anyone. For that matter, why don't we all work on Project Revolution. Or if you want something new, how about a game where you have to survive in New York city by playing chess and basketball. You get a "rep" and the higher the "rep" the more tournaments you can join. The grand finale could be you playing in the Rucker and then facing off against Maurice Ashley in Washington Square Park. You get minus "rep" points if your basketball friends catch you playing chess or something like that.

There's a difference though, those are sites you visit frequently. What about sites you don't visit frequently? THose are the ones that are going to be hard googling for as you may not remember enoughy specific keywords to google for it. For instance. I like this site of laid back little games called Orisinal.com, but I go there maybe every couple months. It has an odd name and not a distinct subject matter, not something easily refindable through google.

Along the same lines, orisinal.com might be a lot of fun -- most of Orisinal's innovative puzzle games use the mouse in some way, be it with circling movements, clicking, dragging and releasing, etc. Good for a timewaster.

Orisinal.com. The coolest collection of flash games you will ever find. Just have mercy on his server :)

Lastly, don't take my comment to mean that great games can't be made in Flash

what about http://www.orisinal.com?
Incredible games that are really addictive and are quick playing. Besides, they all work great under linux (moz 0.9.8).

Check out Orisinal.com, a Flash games site that puts almost anything else I've seen to shame.