That's uncanny Geek Girl, I almost posted a Commander Keen title last night as part of my platform day effort, but thought it was too good to be included with others (though it may have been the Duke Nukem one - I'm not sure .... I have so many games titles swimming around in my head at the moment. This project has really got my brain working on trying to remember all the games I bought back then in the early days of computer games - ahhhh the nostalgia, lol.

I have another game that's remarkably similar in title to that Commander Keen title, though it's another subject matter than baby sitters, lol - I thought it may be part of the same series, but they arn't connected in any way.

I was gob smacked when I first discovered the extent of abandonware. All the old games I bought are now free. One of my favorites (the name of which I wont mention because it's going to be the subject of a weekday games post in a couple of weeks {It also had 12 floppies and was just over 11Mb in size}) There's an amazing number of games available out there. I've found loads at Abandonia, and really look forwards to posting them here. I'm tempted to just post the whole lot and be done with it, but I think posting one or a few a day is a much better way to introduce the community to the wonders of freeware games. Monday's game will be an abandonware title.

Abandonware anyone? These are formally commercial games which have been abandoned by the companies that went out of business or are giving away. For example EA Games is giving away Command & Conquer Red Alert One free for download. (Some companies, such as Apogee, gave the first episode away and you only paid if you wanted the entire series...usually two more games.)

There are places like Abandonia that have a lot of good, old DOS games. Some you can run straight on XP. Some will need a DOS emulator called DOSBox. And yes DOSBox works on Vista Home Premium.

Some of my abandoware favorites:

Commander Keen 6 - Aliens Ate My Baby Sitter
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/956
Original Duke Nukem
Laura Bow 1 - The Colonels Bequest (I remember this game had 10 floppies! It's just over 3MB LOL!)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/218

Thanks for the link gtoal. The first computer game I ever bought was a text based adventre called 'The Island of Artuan' bought in the mid 80's. It was stored on one of the first ever hard case floppy discs for a computer called the Einstein 84 which cost me the equivalent of $40 to buy.

The one great thing about software redundancy is that it all goes on the freeware list eventually, lol.

Some new text adventure games, for those of you who've played all the old ones already..

http://ifcomp.org/comp08/games.php

Fantastic work, honestly there are so many additional links to the ones that I already have, this will keep me busy for a very long time. Thanks again.

Thank you ender for the link, though war games are not my genre, you can always make some finds on the site of freewaregenius.
Honestly, the best thing for me was, that you boosted up this thread again, I'm sure, I've never seen the nintendo games before. In Blades of Steel my blue player outplayed not only the red one but the referee too :)

not a gamer, but thought, gamers among you might be interested:
http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/05/15/an-overview-of-free-turn-based-strategy-and-war-games/

Retro Nintendo 8-bit gaming in your (java enabled) browser.
http://nintendo8.com/

PLAZMA PONG! Is this what Pong could've/would've/should've looked like in the 70's?

If anyone tries it, lemme know what you think.

I'm going back for more...

http://www.plasmapong.com/

Latest DOS Box Emulator for playing old PC DOS Games on today's machines.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox

What do you think of the idea that I try to maintain a "master list" of bookmarks as the first post in this thread - one for games and one for apps - might actually be useful for an easy lookup / primer for peoples bookmarks of useful sites / programs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_games_released_as_freeware

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freeware_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_first-person_shooters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_engine_recreations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emulators

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_game_lists