Free Stuff that Doesn't Suck
Recommendations for Free Entertainment that doesn't suck
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Web Series
Creator(s): Matt Chapmann, Mike Chapmann
For Ages: 10+
First Released: 01/01/2000
Product Description:
A relic of a time where the internet embraced creativity.
Comments:
One of these days we will get the entirety of the website into the Library of Congress Archives.
Video Games
Developer and Publisher: Studio Pixel
For Ages: 13+
First Released: 12/20/2004
Product Description:
Cave Story is a 2004 Metroidvania game for Microsoft Windows. It was developed over five years by Japanese independent developer Daisuke "Pixel" Amaya in his free time. Cave Story features 2D platform mechanics and is reminiscent of the games Amaya played in his youth, such as Metroid and Castlevania.
Comments:
The freeware version is still available to download from the fan site.
Software
Developers: Flashpoint Team
For Ages: 13+
First Released: 01/10/2017
Product Description:
Flashpoint Archive (formerly BlueMaxima's Flashpoint) is an archival and preservation project that allows browser games, web animations and other general rich web applications to be played in a secure format, after all major browsers removed native support for NPAPI/PPAPI plugins in the mid-to-late 2010s as well as the plugins' deprecation. The project contains over 200,000 applications from over 120 browser plugins, most notably Adobe Flash, which can be installed and played using the provided Flashpoint Launcher and its associated tools.
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Archives all the free flash games that were close to being lost to time.
Video Games
Developer and Publisher: Epic Games and Digital Extremes
For Ages: 16+
First Released: 05/22/1998
Product Description:
Unreal is a 1998 first-person shooter game developed by Epic MegaGames and Digital Extremes and published by GT Interactive for Microsoft Windows. Set in a science-fiction universe, the player controls a prisoner whose prison spacecraft crash-lands on a mysterious planet, where they must find a way to escape while combatting the occupying alien empire. It is the first entry in the Unreal game series and was powered by the titular Unreal Engine.
Comments:
Video game that put Epic Games on the map.
Video Games
Developer and Publisher: Epic Games and Digital Extremes
For Ages: 16+
First Released: 11/22/1999
Product Description:
Unreal Tournament is a 1999 first-person shooter game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. The second installment in the Unreal series, it was first published by GT Interactive in 1999 for Windows, and later released on the PlayStation 2 and Dreamcast by Infogrames in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Players compete in a series of matches of various types, with the general aim of out-killing opponents. The PC and Dreamcast versions support multiplayer online or over a local area network.
Comments:
Supported by the community. You can still play this game over LAN and through different community hosted dedicated servers.
Video Games
Developer and Publisher: Valve
For Ages: 16+
First Released: 10/10/2007
Product Description:
Team Fortress 2 (TF2) is a 2007 multiplayer first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve Corporation. It is the sequel to the 1996 Team Fortress mod for Quake and its 1999 remake, Team Fortress Classic. It was released in October 2007 as part of The Orange Box for Windows and the Xbox 360, and was ported to the PlayStation 3 in December 2007.
Comments:
This game won't die because everything else is a Live Service.
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