VeeshanVault

I know that a lot of us on the boards here have jobs where they can basically play games of various sorts. What I need help with is finding some good pc games that I can play at work safely. That means I need to be able to alt-tab out of it at a moments notice, play it without sound, and is something that doesn't require me to pay attention or force me to stay at the computer. What I have been playing lately is Civilization 3 and that works great but it is getting a bit old (at least until the expansion comes out).

You see a white house to the north.
There is a mailbox here.

n;open mailbox;n;open door;n;examine room

xyzzy

what was the phrase to get the magic rod to work in Adventure?

Groan no Zork please

Heh, I'm got a game of Nethack I've been working at on and off for about 5 years

The Amulet of Yendor still eludes me...

Age of Empires is pretty cool and can be paused. The teamplay is pretty good too.

I have AOE but I don't think that you can Alt-Tab out of it without killing the game. I still need to use my computer for actual work once in a while. Also, it wouldn't do to have people come into my office looking for help and find me playing a game. Not like they don't do it themselves but you know how it goes.

AOE is great i play roller coaster tycoon OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS at work you can play it in a window so atl tab out is easy

That was one of them, Vorn. There was also "plover" I believe. And one other that escapes me atm. Of course, killing the dragon with my bare hands was a highlight too.

i never was able to kill the dragon

"kill dragon"

"With what? Your bare hands?"

(by this point you've tried EVERYthing, and are insanely frustrated)

"YES!"

"Congratulations!! You have just killed a dragoin with your bare hands!! That's amazing!!"

well now i feel even stupider

hehe that is funny

StarCraft is a good one, but I usually stick to simple Flash games in the Internet.

speaking of which, i found a kick ass wiffleball game the other day

http://www.candystand.com/games/cn_shock_cnwb.htm

ahhh the old whiffle ball...

Woohoo

http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/download.html

http://www.popcap.com

Check out insaniquarium. So great.

I just tried to install Magic: The Gathering ( you know those 2 games that came out a while ago ) well it won't let me install because I am not running Windows 95. Anyone have any idea on how to fix that? I am on Win2k Pro at work. I supposed I could scrounge up a 95 cd and build a computer out of spare parts here but I don't think the game is worth going through that much effort.

or you could run Windows 95 in a virtual machine.

or make your current machine multi-boot.

Neverwinter Nights can be run in a window with a modification in the config ini file. It is a supported function.

Then there is always http://www.zone.com; some decent addictive games there.

There are always the casino websites too.

Most of the old Sierra adventures are also playable in a window. Some oldies but goodies.

mmm AOE is great...I think with some tweaking can be run in windows to.....I play golf sometimes to hehehe

have you ever played dope wars?

it's great, very addictive

Voronwe...that's a fun one. The candystand mini golf is fun too.

i could never finish that stupid game Zork beat me everytime!!!