Freearcade.com
I
am about to reveal the first-ever "affiliate" link in APP. What is an affiliate link? It's where we
provide a link to another company's website, and they in turn pay us money - real
money - for every one of you that clicks over there from our link.
Is
this a shameless advertisement? No. Because, the fact is, I go to Free
Arcade all the time. I go to play Javanoid (Breakout), Chess, and Othello.
Also that pipe-connecting game that I can't remember the name of. It's cool.
It's simple.
So,
here is the link. If I have done this right, when you click here, the good
folks at Free Arcade will note that you have come from the good folks at Absurd
Pamphlet Press, and they will send us something like 1/8th of a penny.
FreeArcade.com
100+ Free
Online games
New games
added each week!
(If
I have NOT done it right, then Free Arcade gets free business, and we get...
well, we get jack.)
Anyway,
about the site. First of all, the name. Are you kidding? Just the words
"free" and "arcade" next to one another implies more joy
than I can stand! When I heard of such a site, I can tell you that I dropped
what I was doing at that moment to connect. And while Free Arcade may not actually
be more joy than you can stand, it's a really fun site for those of you who
sometimes just want to play a SIMPLE VIDEOGAME without downloading a bunch of zip
files forever.
If
you're like me, you realize that simplicity has pretty much fled from the video
game scene in the past ten years. Everything has to be the ultimate in
3-D, the ultimate in total immersion, the ultimate
in hardware-upgrades! This site is a great antidote to that.
It
has a lot of Java-recreations of classic video games, board games, card games,
what the hell ever. I'm not as into their "classic" video games
because they are basically just Java recreations of things like Donkey Kong or
Pac-Man. Not the real thing. (Although Lunar Lander is good. But how are you
going to screw THAT one up?) But that's not why I like the site - I like it for
the simplicity and speed. I'm ALWAYS looking for a simple chess game to play
online, without having to go into some stupid chat room or meet someone from
Russia, and Free Arcade has it.
If
the site has a down side, it is that it's chock full of Java. Even the main
menu is fairly Javafied. But, amazingly, it still doesn’t take that long to
load.
Check
it out. Play a few games. Throw a few pennies our way, to defray the enormous
costs of printing the Absurd Pamphlet Press.
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