A Small Handful of Wonderful Free Games.
Unless you’re a complete douchebag, you are probably wondering about how you could find some really awesome and completely free computer games. Well, it’s probably about time you found out. Here are a few games that are completely free and completely fun.
1.) Cave Story
Did you like Super Metroid? Of course you did. Everybody liked Super Metroid. Mountain men kept Super Nintendos with copies of Super Metroid in their Y2K bunkers, and those guys hate technology so much that they shoot abortion doctors. Cave Story is like Super Metroid, inasmuch as you get power-ups that let you traverse areas of the map that you couldn’t reach before. The art style is pixel-simple and very smart looking. There is no reason not to love this game.
The game is available here: http://agtp.romhack.net/doukutsu.html and you will need to apply the English-language patch. It is localized very well. You would do well to play it always and everywhere.
2.) Cho Ren Ka 68k
Anyone who has ever had to put up with me for more than an hour knows that I am a man who likes to play twitchy, meth-mom Japanese shooter games. That’s what Cho Ren Ka 68k provides - twitchy, meth-mom Japanese shooter timers. It’s not ungodly impossible (e.g. Mars Matrix) and it doesn’t strive to push graphics very hard (e.g….well, that’s not much of a shooter trait, I guess). It just puts a fuckin’ bunch of alien guys in your face and requires that you explode them all while trying to cling on to your gravity-free, meaningless space life. It’s great.
Cho Ren Ka 68k is best found via Wicked Small Games over here: http://www.wickedsmallgames.com/games/c/cho-ren-sha-68k/
3.) Warning Forever
I first played Warning Forever at Game On at the Museum of Science and Industry. I was all “what is this beautiful experience?” The esteemed Emily K. informed me that it was this game she used to play a lot. Then I did some vague Google searches and I found it! That same day, Emily sent me a link to it. The point is that I am impatient. Warning Forever is another shooter; this one is unique in that it is comprised entirely of boss battles. Furthermore, the bosses you face mutate from stage to stage based on the way you attack the previous bosses; it’s difficult to explain, but you’ll see what I’m talking about once you play this amazing game. The graphics are hyper-stylized and stick to a green-on-black vector minimalism that looks awesome while at the same time keeping the processor load low.
Warning Forever is available here: http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/
This is all I have for right now; I can probably provide a dozen more. Many come from the same production teams; actually, Cho Ren Ka 68k was made by one dude, I think, and all of his games are free and they are all similarly awesome. You can expect a Part 2 to this story some time in the eventual Space Future (like a version of the future where you simultaneously asphyxiate and freeze to death).