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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Re:I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by macrom · 2002-08-04 10:00 · Score: 5, Funny

I suspect you'd get even more odd looks if you were playing a flight sim.
Re:I dunno if it's ported to the Mac, but.. by Partisan · 2002-08-04 10:09 · 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.
Re:Old games search engine by Anthracks · 2002-08-04 10:54 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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