What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games?

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 4, 2002 @08:15AM from the beep-beep-beeeeeeep dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I'm flying from the US to Europe in a few weeks and am taking my iBook along for the ride. With a seven hour flight looming, I'm wanting to take some games along to play. But I don't want to download a bunch of freeware that may or may not be junk; I just want the classics. What are the classic free games? I've already downloaded Nethack and am looking into Freeciv. What else is there? I need something that's multiplatform (or at least has a Mac port), something that's stable and has stood the test of time, and something that is more complex and engrossing than a Tetris clone. Thanks!"

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7 hours..please... by billmaly · 2002-08-04 08:29 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Get a book (dead tree) and suck it up. Try 36 hours from Chicago to Cape Town, 8 hour layover in Frankfort, 2 hours on the tarmac in Johannesberg, all with a crappy 2nd rate novel and nothing to fall back on, and then you can gripe about a long flight.