*/me searches through his massive c:\games directory...*
The Bub's Bros.
It's Bubble Bobble.
With 10 players.
Over the internet.
Yes, it's every bit as awesome as it sounds.
...If your connection is any good. :sweat:
BurgerTimes
Burgertime clone (well duh 😛) with a heaping load of levels (50 or so), Intellivision-style graphics, and 2-simultaneous-player netplay. W00t.
Rockman: The Mega Wars
Think Power Battle/Power Fighters, only NES style. 😃
(Warning, Freewebs link. Time to try copying and pasting into the address bar. 😛)
Cube and Sauerbraten
Probably the most-well known free first-person shooters. Can't believe no one's mentioned them yet. :laughing:
Liero Xtreme and Gusanos
Probably the most-well known Liero clones. There's just something special about tiny lil' worms BLOWING SHIT UP. 😃
Eggerland Episode 0: Quest of Lala
Eggerland/Adventures of Lolo for Windows. By HAL themselves, no less. 😊
It's actually a demo/beta/test of Revival! Eggerland, which was released commercially about 4 years later (but only in Japan; I hear it's hard to find even over there :unhappy😊.
The links page of Charlie Finch's Lolo site has a few links to Japanese sites with lots of user-made levels.
Super Mario War
Deathmatch-style Super Mario: kill opponents by jumping on their heads, or with Mario items.
I just wish they'd hurry up and put in some netplay though...right now, it's only good for bot practice, or if you have some friends around. :unhappy:
Daedalus
It's a simple maze generator...but with all sorts of added stuff. You can make many different types of mazes, walk through them in a 3D view, etc.
Deadly Rooms of Death: Architects' Edition
Nice lil' puzzle game.
You have to kill all the monsters in each room. But since it's turn-based, and one hit kills you, and there are a decent number of differently-behaving enemies, and it's not at all difficult to get surrounded, there's quite a bit of thinking involved. 😛
Quadra, Gravytris, Heboris, DTET, and Lockjaw
The best Tetris clones, in my opinion anyway. 🙄
(Heboris and DTET are Japanese creations, and the homepages are written in said language; and DTET isn't distributed on the main site anymore anyway. So I'm instead linking to the Tetrisconcept.com forum threads discussing them. Just read the threads, you'll find out how to get 'em eventually. 😛)
Quadra is basically Tetris with realistic gravity--any piece that isn't being held up will fall, possibly creating a chain reaction that clears more than 4 lines. (Highest I've seen is 20. 😮dd😊 8-player netplay is therefore quite hectic, with everybody sending lines left and right. 😃
Gravytris is...strange. There's a lot of innovative new features (rotating the pieces on the Y and Z axis, not just the X...using your currently falling piece to push aside misdropped pieces that still have room to move...a gravity gun that you can use to pick up pieces already on the field...), and a lot of different gameplay modes too (some similar to Tetris DS, from what I hear 😮dd😊.
Heboris is similar to Arika's "Tetris: the Grand Master" series of arcade games. The original author of Heboris quit work on it a few years ago, but as the game was programmed in a scripting language, other block-stacking fans have since heavily modified it to introduce many more features, most from the later TGM games.
DTET is another good one, with the controls and play geared toward experts. The distribution floating around comes with a bunch of recordings; be absolutely sure to watch neta's vids, but have a change of pants handy, as you're gonna lose something in them. :laughing:
Lockjaw is Damian Yerrick's option-loaded world domination project. 😛 It's designed to mimic just about any official Tetris game you can think of, by tweaking the settings appropriately. It's still in somewhat early stages, but no doubt it'll be awesome once it's finished. 😃
Nebulous
Remember Nebulus/Tower Toppler/Castelian?
Yeah.
Standard Clone With Purty Graphics And Level Editor (tm). 😛
Armagetron Advanced
Remember the movie Tron?
Remember the lightcycle sequence, which has since spawned such classics as Surround and Snake/Nibbles?
Okay...now imagine it with netplay. And you can speed up by driving close to your or other players' walls.
...Yeah. It rocks. 😛
BZFlag
The old tank game Battlezone meets first-person shooters. 😛 You drive your tank around and kill enemy tanks with your SLOW CIRCULAR BULLETS OF DOOM.
One Must Fall 2097
Classic Street Fighter clone, now released as freeware.
Except...this one has ROBOTS. YES.
And a nice tournament mode where you can upgrade your 'bot by winning fights. And stuff.
Also, check out Robyrt's videos of combo ass-kickery.
Press Your Luck Expert Edition
Clone of said game show. It is win. 😉
Grand Unified Game
Simple little puzzle/platformer game similar to Lost Vikings.
Using the unique abilities of Mario, Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and that dude from Joust, you must get all 4 characters to the level exit. 😛 Lots of switches and enemies are in the way, of course. PUMPING UP GOOMBAS FTW. 😃
Icy Tower
Climb up a tower, trying to beat the screen scrolling. Do combos by clearing 2+ floors each jump in rapid succession.
Jetpack
Another classic puzzle/platformer. Collect all the level's gems and then head for the exit.
Shoujo Attack!
Lemmings clone using cute anime girls instead of rodents. :naughty:
ZZT and MegaZeux
For those times when text-mode "graphics" and relatively simple gameplay are all you need. 😛
Outgun
Plays like a FPS, but from a top-down view.
JROK's games and CHAMProgramming's games
Clones of famous old arcade games. Pac-Man, Q*Bert, Centipede, Galaga, Donkey Kong...
JROK's games with "PC" in the titles 😛 are near-exact recreations of the arcade originals, while the CHAMP ones (originally shareware, but CHAMP went out of business, and they're now free) are not quite as accurate but have added modes and stuff. (MsPacPC and CHAMP Ms. Pac-em = win. Just so you know. 😃).
Acter World
Arcadey little platformer. Some have said it resembles Bubble Bobble, but I honestly don't see much of a similarity. :laughing:
Akuji the Demon
Cute little Castlevania/Metroid-like platformer.
The original version is Japanese, but there's an English patch here.
Glace and Within a Deep Forest
Oddly enough, these both have similar storylines: blue ball gets accidentally created and rejected by its creator, but ends up saving the world. Similar gameplay too, with emphasis on bouncing...I honestly wonder if one heavily inspired the other. 😛
Pekka Kana 2
Mario-like platformer with a dumbass rooster as the hero and megaphones as weapons. Yeah, it's awesome. :laughing:
Netbattle
LET ME SHOW YOU MY POKEMANS.
Over the net, even.
Donkey Bolonkey
Rat Poker clone, but with donkeys.
Line up 3 or more of the same color donkey, and into the grinder they go. Whee! 😃
Drops of Light
Simple little puzzle game involving color mixing. Get your grid to look like the goal grid by moving RGB components around, but it costs more energy to split cyan/magenta/yellow/white into their individual reds/greens/blues, and you have an energy limit for each level, so you must be careful not to move the pieces too much...
Escape
Turn-based puzzle game, move boxes onto switches to activate/deactivate lasers that'll kill you.
Auto updates of user levels across the internet, yay. 😃
Gartriage
Another puzzler. Get all the color-coded cargo into the correctly-colored train cars...diagonal tracks, though, present a problem, as the train can only turn 45 degrees at once. 😛
PuffBOMB
Using the provided bombs, blow all the hamsters into the goal areas. "BASTAaaaaaaaard..."
(Looks like the guy's working on a new version, too. 😊)
Pushover
Clone of an SNES game of same name. Push over all the level's dominoes, without leaving any or getting yourself killed. 😛
Sokoban YASC (Yet Another Sokoban clone)
Except this one's highly advanced and all. Built-in solver, skin support, options out the ass, comes with a few thousand levels...😛
GikoParoNeo
Gradius/Parodius clone using Japanese ASCII-style graphics. (Mona-themed...Giko is the player ship :laughing😊
SkyRoads
Another originally-commercial-now-free classic. You're driving down a road in your spaceship-car thingy, trying not to crash the car or run out of fuel or air.
...oy. I have WAY too much time on my hands. 😮dd: