The Best Free Online (in-browser or downloadable) Games

this was ten minutes well spent:

http://www.skipmore.com/freegames/synopsis/synopsis.html

Super Mario Crossover:

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/534416

oh man, the music cues totally make this

also like that it just becomes brutally hard to play as simon

it's kind of awe inspiring

this is amazing

playing as mega man feels really natural

it totally shouldn't work, but they nailed the integration

Best fit in a way is playing as Contra guy, which perfectly captures the Contra experience: when you get the Spread Gun everything is just over-the-top wonderful, and then as soon as you lose it everything's fucked.

Really hard to switch over to Samus after that, losing the whole duck-and-shoot thing in favor of the bombs.

http://www.party-tencho.com/munekyun/

I don't know either.

oh man I LOVE THAT, i can't believe he made another one

pretty awesome

got 128kyun but still not a kyunboy ;_;

One of the best shooting games for me is "Bowman"

Is there an astroturfing game?

pretty cool, altho computer was dumb when faced with wind and wall on one game.

liked the Airport game on that link

Gentlemen, this is fucking brilliant

http://www.kongregate.com/games/Mousebreaker/ashes-2-ashes-zombie-cricket

omg that is the greatest thing i've ever seen.

STREWTH!

I won back the Ashes! Final score: 124

i got killed and eaten by a 12ft zombie dame edna :(

http://armorgames.com/play/5917/exit-path

canabalt/portal.
I made it to level 28 and had to go to bed.

it was fun. my final score was 2,055. But I imagine knowing some of the puzzles I could get a higher score now.

what the hell?
http://3dnes.blogspot.com/

Exit Path's decent, but seems to miss the point a little of Canabalt, with so many moves and death traps, it's not simple and engaging enough to be worth all the dying. But the multiplayer/mmo stuff is a great idea, with more polish it could really be something.

Zelda II... just no.

omg that zelda thing

really liked exit path when i wasnt being tempted to smash the keyboard during the latter levels

Finished it though

Zelda thing made me want to die. Sad nerdzz

I was kind of touched by the idea of it, but it's not exactly a playable, fun game. Maybe it's all a deliberate commentary on the pointless 3D-ification of classic franchises....except that the 3D Zeldas were actually good. So I dunno.

So hooked on this:

http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games8/gameindex/manufactoria.htm

music started creeping me out

http://www.nitrome.com/games/faultline/
^GREAT idea!

^^^ really addictive must. stop. playing. this. game.

lol i can't get over the first obstacle...

click the little x, drag it onto the other little x.

Yeah, it's a great concept but somehow still really dull to play.

yeah but when it comes to the mines i can't find another x to drag it on to!

I keep triggering off the John Barnes/World Cup advert on the right of the page.

http://php.scripts.psu.edu/tms5162/games/tca.php

This is a multiplayer online game from the guy who made Runman. Dessgeega wrote about it:

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=598

Now it's up and running, but no one's yet playing it. One guy named Chris was there, but that's not enough to get a game going (you need four or five, I think).

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/3184/gg2iceworld.jpg
GunGirl 2 is a really solid Metroidvania/run n' gun, cheesy 16-bit era aesthetic - kind of reminds me of other freeware/indie games like Survival Crisis Z. Between this and Hero Core I've been really getting my fill of these type of games.

So Frontierville on FB is actually a step above most FB social media games. Not saying it's great by any means, but they're starting to figure out how to make social media games work in interesting ways. (Link to it: http://apps.facebook.com/frontierville/ -- thing I wrote about it for more of my thoughts about why it works: http://popculturecurator.tumblr.com/post/740021134/frontierville-and-the-establishment-of-community )

Nice take on Mr. Driller:
http://www.lingolux.com/2010/01/29/go-to-hell/

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/540079
^easy as pie but a fun five second diversion

also the thread title's been bugging me for forever so i changed it.

also enjoying:
http://www.sootygames.com/red-remover-player-pack.html#

must play:
http://peanutgallerygames.com/blog/games/pond/

didn't find the kraken, couldn't be bothered trying again. Can go for a real walk in the woods whenever I feel like it.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/playpanic/shadow-snake

lol @ pond

I pulled something in my back and I've been pretty much laid up for the past day and a half - - - thankfully, there's Gun Girl 2. Great find. I think I ran into a sequence-wrecking glitch but it's still playable, and boy does it have great control/timing. There are things I would quibble about, and I had to turn off the special effects b/c the graphics don't work right on my machine, but it's a damn nice slice of freeware, great jump-n-shoot fun.

also the thread title's been bugging me for forever so i changed it.

THANK YOU. I thought I had requested a change to the thread title a long time ago, but maybe I just imagined it because I don't see it. Anyway, thanks!