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What (And Where) Are The Classic Free Games?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. More ngrossing than a Tetris clone? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that possible? I'm having a hard time taking a break to even write this. I've been playing Tetris for the past 10 years with very few breaks for eating, sleeping, etc. Gotta go! Straight line block coming!

  2. I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by dunkerz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doom?

    (Although you'd better not let a stewardess see you madly running around with a gun, on a computer, whilst on a plane.. it might make you look conspicuous.. ;)

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    1. Re:I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by macrom · · Score: 5, Funny

      I suspect you'd get even more odd looks if you were playing a flight sim.

    2. Re:I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by Partisan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Way back when me and a buddy always carried a 50 foot coax cable when we traveled. We'd deathmatch at 30,000 feet even when we weren't sitting side by side.
      Nobody ever complained.

    3. Re:I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I suspect you'd get even more odd looks if you were playing a flight sim.

      "Well Mohammed, I guess if I haven't learned by now I'm never going to. Let's roll."

  3. HappyWeed! by tarkap · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.happyweed.com/

    Mac (classic) OS only... but it rules!

  4. Re:Old games search engine by Anthracks · · Score: 4, Funny

    I dunno about you, but I don't often associate the words "oldies" and "porn" *shudders*.

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  5. Re:Ambrosia Software! by malice · · Score: 2, Funny
    Well, gee, I'm glad you didn't tell anyone to go pirate our software! oiy...