Good Freeware Gaming Portal? 47

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:15PM from the more-bang-for-your-non-buck dept.

marioBrosse writes "I've been Googling around for a while, and can't find a decent free game portal. Everybody knows there are excellent free games available for download, such as GeneRally, Little Fighters 2, and various Civilization and Tron clones. Did I miss the one great free gaming site, or is there a huge lack of one in the gaming world ? I'm dreaming of an free game portal referencing freeware and shareware games for Windows, Linux, and MacOs, with categorization, rating systems, and more."

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Check out Underdogs (Score:4, Informative)

by override11 ( 516715 ) writes: <cpeterson@gts.gaineycorp.com> on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:22PM (#6342776) Homepage

This is the best one I have found, rating system, everything you asked for. :)

The Underdogs [the-underdogs.org]

- Re:Check out Underdogs (Score:2, Informative)
  
  by Echnin ( 607099 ) writes:
  
  Yeah, that's a pretty good site; was going to mention it. Note that the site has mainly old games which have been "abandoned" by their developers and publishers. Still good for new freeware games, though. There are over 4500 games on the site, and most of them are avaiable for download.
  - Re: (Score:2)
    
    by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
    
    Comment removed based on user account deletion
    - Re:Check out Underdogs (Score:1)
      
      by SeaEye420 ( 613209 ) writes:
      
      Heh, who gets popups anymore? I sure didn't see any? ;) Maybe you just need to upgrade your browser?
- - Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:4, Informative)
    
    by Goldberg's Pants ( 139800 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @05:20PM (#6344100) Journal
    
    Idiot child. The site does it's best to be legit. When IDSA threatened them with legal action, they pulled all games from IDSA members.
    
    Pretty much every freeware game I have I've discovered on Underdogs.
    
    Generally is good, though I've heard rumours that Generally installed Spyware on peoples systems. I have no idea if that's true. All I know is it did no such thing on mine.
    
    - Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:2)
      
      by Telastyn ( 206146 ) writes:
      
      Many of the underdogs links/ads are of a questionable nature. Gator [lords of spyware] was one of the things form the site if I remember correctly.
      
      As long as you don't actually install anything you should be fine. For those of you that are more paranoid [and you probably should be] set your browser to prompt you about cookies [which the underdogs' ads create tons of] and to prompt you about popups [for those of you/us with IE, ask google about nopopie; it works okay]
      
      And all of the software listed for dow
  - Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:1, Informative)
    
    by Anonymous Coward writes:
    
    The point of the underdogs is to give gamers a chance to play games that many of us enjoyed in the old days, yet are no longer sold. Thus the term "abandonwarez." If they find the game for sale somewhere, they pull the download link and stick one up to the retailer selling it.
    
    Theres alot of underplayed games of unbelievable quality out there, yet few people get a chance to play them. Instead we are fixated on future releases, whether they be Everquest2 or Duke Nukem Forever. If everyone spent the time they
    - Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:1)
      
      by MadJo ( 674225 ) writes:
      
      I personally rather play older games which give me a better storyline or better gameplay, than those new and flashy games, which have a flimsy storyline or is so detailed in graphics that it requires multi-processors to even give a moving picture... :)
      
      The-underdogs is also my hideout, in search of those gems.. sadly Elite 3 doesn't run under XP :(
      - Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:1)
        
        by MadJo ( 674225 ) writes:
        
        but, and I forgot to add this, I think UO doesn't have any linux games...
Need an archive too, not just a portal (Score:1)

by lightspawn ( 155347 ) writes:

Many many games, especially web games (Java, Shockwave) disappear after a few months. Most kids would love a CD full of these things. Are they archived anywhere?
One obvious one (Score:5, Informative)

by SLot ( 82781 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:30PM (#6342884) Homepage Journal

FreeGames.com [freegames.com]

Note: I'm not familiar with the site at all, but a cursory look seems to confirm that you are after something like it.

- Re:Hmmmm.... (Score:1)
  
  by JGag21 ( 678945 ) writes:
  
  Awww damnit, my first troll post. Who mods this anyways?? Was it you Jesus? You're pissing me off.
Dreaming? (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

I'm dreaming of an free game portal referencing freeware and shareware games for Windows, Linux, and MacOs, with categorization, rating systems, and more.

That's funny: I'm dreaming of Pamela Anderson! Well, I guess this *is* a geek site.
Uh.. (Score:3, Funny)

by GiMP ( 10923 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:41PM (#6343046)

happypenguin.org

Secondly, how dare you post links to Windows games.. you know that most of us are running the One True Platform (TM) and thus disbelieve and reject the existence of That Other OS (TM)

- Re:Uh.. (Score:1)
  
  by Midnight Ryder ( 116189 ) writes:
  
  Secondly, how dare you post links to Windows games.. you know that most of us are running the One True Platform (TM) and thus disbelieve and reject the existence of That Other OS (TM)
  
  Yeah! Give 'em hell! Next time buddy, links to Mac OSX games only! ;-)
download.cnet.com (Score:1)

by elite lamer ( 533654 ) writes:

Specifically, the Games section [com.com] is quite nice. It fits your desired description, has a great selection, and you can sort it by various things such as operating system, license, file size, popularity, user rating, etc.
- download.com going $$ (Score:3, Informative)
  
  by slashkitty ( 21637 ) * writes:
  
  FYI:
  
  Download.com will start charging software creators who want their downloads listed. Me things this will not be a good place for free software anymore!
Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

by smoondog ( 85133 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:46PM (#6343121)

I don't get it. Why would anyone need anything other than Nethack [nethack.org]?

-Sean

GameHippo (Score:3, Informative)

by Idolminds ( 547797 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @03:55PM (#6343246)

I like to look around GameHippo [gamehippo.com] for freeware games. Reviews and quite a large listing of games. The user comments are full of trolls, so don't take them all that seriously.

- Re:GameHippo (Score:1)
  
  by great throwdini ( 118430 ) writes:
  
  GameHippo does a poor job of responding to game owners' requests and tends to retain out-of-date software even when told there are more recent releases available. I put them on the 'I give up' list long ago.
  
  You're right about the trollish user comments, though.
Google? (Score:4, Informative)

by Violet Null ( 452694 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @04:18PM (#6343487)

You say you've tried googling, but a search for freeware "little fighters 2" [google.com] returns the first choice as World of Free Games [worldoffreegames.com], which seperates games by genre, and has ratings. If you switch to the list view, you can sort by them, too.

- Re:Google? (Score:1)
  
  by marioBrosse ( 653813 ) writes:
  
  a part of my post was removed by the moderator. I found lots of sites that had not been updated for several monthes. And the last game was on this one was added on July 11th..... 2002.
SourceForge has more than you might think (Score:5, Informative)

by PeteyG ( 203921 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @04:21PM (#6343516) Homepage Journal

It's actually got a lot of definately NOT fun software to wade through, but Sourceforge [sourceforge.net] actually has quite a few fun games that you won't find in your Linux distributions by default. You just have to sort beta or stable games for whatever platform you like in the software map.

My favorite game hosted by Sourceforge: Vega Strike [sourceforge.net]. It's a 3D space combat + trading + ship improvement game with pretty decent graphics.

Pygame (Score:2, Informative)

by veganjay ( 244303 ) writes:

You could try pygame [pygame.org]
There are many games currently available written using PyGame. Solarwolf is a good one.
This might not be exactly what you are looking for, but in the spirit of slashdot and good karma, it is open source :)
--
jason
SOLDAT! (Score:1, Informative)

by UltimaL337Star ( 641853 ) writes:

SOLDAT!
Gamehippo.com (Score:4, Informative)

by American AC in Paris ( 230456 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @04:53PM (#6343851) Homepage

Check out Gamehippo.com [gamehippo.com]. They have a nice listing of freeware titles, with comments, editorial review, and peer review.

SourceForge (Score:2, Insightful)

by Joehonkie ( 665142 ) writes:

Did you try looking under sourceforge.net under games? I have found some great stuff there.
a few sites, sadly for w32... (Score:2, Informative)

by sICE ( 92132 ) writes:

As underdog, hippo and happypenguin were already listed i though i'd anyway give a list of w32 freeware games links:

Gamedev.net [gamedev.net] -- good ressources for game developers and lists current projects... some good free games.
Download Net [holystonemill.co.uk] -- a great source for freeware and classic pc games (mostly windows)
MegaGames [megagames.com] -- A good freeware section here.
RareWare [go.to] -- This site is dedicated to all kind of games that have two things in common: they are small in size (max. 10mb) and are great to play.

have fun!
www.newgrounds.com (Score:3, Informative)

by Sevn ( 12012 ) writes: on Tuesday July 01, 2003 @07:17PM (#6344994) Homepage Journal

has a TON of free games. Albeit, they are mostly
highly offensive games.

Another great place for free games is.... (Score:2, Informative)

by Sevn ( 12012 ) writes:

cd /usr/portage/app-games/
ls

on Gentoo

OR

cd /usr/ports/games
ls

on *BSD
remakes.org (Score:1, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

remakes [remakes.org] of old games...
Web games (Score:2)

by Scarblac ( 122480 ) writes:

Who needs to download games, there are lots of good free online games. I play Hattrick [hattrick.org], a soccer manager game.

It's much easier to play these during work too, and it's automatically networked multiplayer :-)
HappyPenguin.org (Score:2, Informative)

by myrddin ( 4427 ) writes:

www.happypenguin.org (member happypuppy.com??)

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Check out Underdogs (Score:4, Informative)

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Re:Cool! Warez! (Score:4, Informative)

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Need an archive too, not just a portal (Score:1)

One obvious one (Score:5, Informative)

Re:Hmmmm.... (Score:1)

Dreaming? (Score:2, Funny)

Uh.. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Uh.. (Score:1)

download.cnet.com (Score:1)

download.com going $$ (Score:3, Informative)

Huh? (Score:5, Funny)

GameHippo (Score:3, Informative)

Re:GameHippo (Score:1)

Google? (Score:4, Informative)

Re:Google? (Score:1)

SourceForge has more than you might think (Score:5, Informative)

Pygame (Score:2, Informative)

SOLDAT! (Score:1, Informative)

Gamehippo.com (Score:4, Informative)

SourceForge (Score:2, Insightful)

a few sites, sadly for w32... (Score:2, Informative)

www.newgrounds.com (Score:3, Informative)

Another great place for free games is.... (Score:2, Informative)

remakes.org (Score:1, Informative)

Web games (Score:2)

HappyPenguin.org (Score:2, Informative)

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