[Edit: Sorry, wrong forum, can a moderator please move this to the Free Games forum? Thanks]
I wanted to post a good, old game for others to download, but since I never saw a PC game until around 1993 (the first PC game I remember seeing was Doom) that means I can't surprise you all with a great but almost unknown game from the PC's past.
Instead, here are some old games that I like that originally played on other machines (other than Detective Chess), though all of the links here are for the PC versions.
Image: http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/games/s/scrabblewin/scrabblewin.jpgScrabble for Windows is an excellent version of (guess what!) Scrabble, which even has a built in dictionary to tell you the meaning of any words you don't recognise (yes, Scrabble for Windows is an educational game, but don't let that put you off!). Sadly, this is a Windows game (the game's title is very imaginitive, isn't it
) that doesn't run on 64bit Windows, but works fine on XP 32bit.
You can read about it here:
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=4028 (note: when is says "on-line dictionary, it means 'on-line' in the old sense, as in connected to the program, it doesn't mean (or use) the internet at all, the game uses it's own built in dictionary file),
and download it from:
http://www.old-games.com/download/5540/scrabble-for-windowsImage: http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/games/j/jimmywhite/jimmywhite.jpgJimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker is an excellent football management simulator. At least it is if you download the wrong game. If you download the right game then it's a very good snooker game, in full 3D, with precise controls and lots of playability. It's a DOS game so you'll probably have to use DOSBox to play it. Read about it at:
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?id=2908I can't remember where I initially downloaded it from (I bought it for the Atari ST, that's how old the game is) but it's available from:
http://www.bestoldgames.net/eng/old-games/jimmy-whites-whirlwind-snooker.phpArcher Mclean's Pool is more or less the same game engine, controls, etc, but this time playing darts. Alright, it's pool, but you can play darts in a
Jimmy White's Cueball (seriously), but I can't find a download for that game), which Archer McClean later wrote. Virtual Pool 3 is another game I couldn't find a link to, or I'd have recommended that in this post, as that's better than these two games (but to be fair, these two are older, and are still very good). Again, you'll probably need DOSBox to run this, and you can read about Archer Mclean's Pool at:
http://homeoftheunderdogs.net/game.php?name=Archer%20Maclean's%20PoolImage: http://bindweed.com/det/detpuz1.gifDetective Chess is a browser based game where you have to determine where a number of Chess pieces should be on a board, according to how many other pieces are in how many paths where they can be taken. It's easier to play than to explain, though you do need to understand the movement of each Chess piece to play the game. It's a very good game, with a novel (and not too taxing) idea behind it, and you can play it for free at:
http://embedgames.ru/detective-chess/ 
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