Finding Some Old Favorites
The Incredibly Addictive Torus
Of course, I have our official "Geoffrey Poole*" copy running around on my server somewhere, so I pointed her in its direction, (*ahem* /gamez/ *ahem*) but I was curious to see if the old game was online anywhere.
That led me to dosgamesonline.com where they host old games like torus, and a slew of others. They've got a rating system as well that lets the best games of old float to the top. Pushover sounds kind of neat. I might have to see if I can get wine running to try some of these out.
While I'm talking about great dos games, I have to mention Zelda Classic. It's a complete remake of the old NES/SNES game from the engine up. While you can play through the official quests, they've got different sprite-sets (skins) that you can apply to the games, and whole different maps and worlds in a user contributed quest database. Very cool.
Looking back at games from a few years ago is fun, but I'm amazed how many decent projects there were like this that have completely died out. Were they open sourced, many of these would have grown and morphed along with our operating systems and would still be available and easily playable today. Not to worry though! There are many great open source games today, and I've got a round-up of a few new ones coming soon.
