The Very Best Computer Game Ever Made
17 09 08 - 13:02 When I was going to Poland for exchange studies, I had with myself an ancient, bone-crushingly heavy laptop for typing essays and whatnot. That relic of a computer featured a black%white screen, a highly unresponsive keyboard, and a disturbingly slow 386 processor that barely ran DOS and Windows 3.11 (and looked like this). Before the trip I downloaded a few games for it, to keep me entertained in that strange country I knew next to nothing about.The time in Poland was awesome (in fact so awesome that I went back there a year later!), but I did find some time to try out the games, too. I was happing to find that I had made some excellent choices - and one of them turned out to be The Very Best Computer Game Ever Made!
The games I had prepared for myself were:
Rogue

You can play Rogue online over here, or you can download the original from here or here.
Alter Ego
An extremely fun life simulator. I made a post about its online version some time ago.
Commander Keen, parts 1-3

You can download the first episode from here and purchase the rest from iD Software.
Pyro 2 - World Terrorism

Pyro 2 is a puzzle game at heart; your task is to run through the building, unrolling a ball of string (already lit from its end!) and dropping/spilling gas canisters all over the place, and to escape in time before the fire reaches the gas, exploding the place into a deadly inferno.
As you can see, the game is bloody ugly. Well, the graphics are really plain, but functional. It's the gameplay that shines, though; everything works at a 100% accuracy, making the game an absolute bliss to play!
You can download the game from here.
(Pyro 2 picture from Zer-un.)
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