PC Gaming Suggestions for Console-like Fun?

jayminer writes "We are a relatively newly married young couple who enjoy spending our spare time at home. We don't own a console but have a gaming laptop with DVI output to play games on our TV. My wife is also a CS major so she's computer literate enough. She does not like strategy games, MMORG or any other role-playing game. Apart from "Find the Sausage" jokes, we need quality gaming advice, preferably games which we can play with a single laptop connected to a single large screen, with two gamepads, a console-like experience. What are your suggestions?"

Comments

In the time...

[Jumphard]

...you took to post this inane question you could have driven down to your local *mart and purchased a Nintendo Wii, Playstation 1,2,3, Xbox, or a SNES.

My advice - go buy a console if you want to have the most authentic "console-like" experience.

Old Dos Games

[sherriw]

There are tons of free, fun arcade style games at: www.dosgamesarchive.com.

Many of them will run on newer computers with minimal trouble.

Re:"Hey everybody, look at me!"

[xtracto]

You forgot the:
My wife is also a CS major so ...

Judging from the CS girl friends in my department, I would say I am glad she is not my wife =oP. Unless she is from the Middle East (beautiful women go to Engineering and CS in Middle East countries)