Critical Mass is a Galaxian remake. It provides some extra configuration settings like allowing vertical movement of your ship and setting the difficulty level.

DOWNLOAD: http://criticalmass.sourceforge.net/critter.php
OS: Windows, Mac, Linux

The Lego site has an online Quest for R2-D2 that’s pretty fun. It has several levels and allows you to save your game data. I found it a bit more challenging to control the character with the keyboard (it sure is easier to play Lego Star Wars on the Wii!) but with a bit of practice you’ll get the hang of it. Nice little game.

Play Quest For R2D2 online at the Lego site:http://starwars.lego.com/en-us/FunAndGames/CloneWars-Quest-For-R2D2.aspx

Note: You’ll need to install the Unity web player to play the game. There’s a link to download it at the bottom of the Lego Star Wars site.

Take a look at the new Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie trailer!

This movie looks awesome, but we still have a long wait: it’s not due out until May 2010

Apparently, another game will be released by Ubisoft to coincide with the movie, “Prince of Persia: The Game of the Movie of the Game”

In the meantime, you can check out the original game:
1) http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/10 – the DOS version
2) http://jayisgames.com/archives/2004/06/prince_of_persi.php – an online Flash version
3) http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/prince-of-persia-4d/ – a faithful remake but with added challenges:

“The tortuous difficulty level of this fanmade version makes it a perfect game for those who finished the original game and are looking for a real challenge to save the princess.”

Follow the link to see screenshots and a video of the game.

If you can’t get enough of Tetris and Pong, then you might like to try the mind boggling Tong! In this crazy but addictive game, you play both Pong and Tetris simultaneously, each game having an effect on the other. For example, if you miss a Pong ball, your Tetris blocks move up a row.

With your mouse, you control all 4 Pong paddles located on each side of the Tetris screen. Then with the arrow keys, you control your Tetris blocks. I still need lots of practice to get the hang of this game, but I’m finding it’s pretty fun!

DOWNLOAD: http://www.nongnu.org/tong/
OS: Windows, Linux

The original Ant Attack was a ZX Spectrum game (it was also ported to the Commodore 64). It’s a nifty game where you play a hero (or heroine) that has to enter a city controlled by huge ants. Your objective is to seek out and rescue a captive then escape the city together (without getting eaten alive by the ants, of course!).

Welcome to the new city of Antescher! There’s a 3D remake of Ant Attack available at http://www.encho.demon.co.uk/aa3d/! You can jump up on a wall (up arrow and spacebar) where ants can’t get at you, and you can throw a bomb (ctrl) at them – but watch out that you don’t blow yourself up too! You can use your mouse to control the direction that you throw the bomb or change your viewpoint.
This game can be played in either a First Person or Third Person point-of-view (tab).

It can be a bit challenging to find the captive in the higher levels. Keep your eyes open for flying hearts – they are emitted by the captive and will give you some hints as to where he is being held.

The ants have a degree of intelligence and once they have detected you will gang up on you and attack. If you keep your distance and are very sneaky, you might be able to avoid attracting their attention. Also, they don’t see as well if you lurk in the shadows or play a night game.

The game comes with three maps but each map has several levels of difficulty. It also comes with a map editor to create your own maps!

DOWNLOAD: http://www.encho.demon.co.uk/aa3d/
OS: Windows

Jogos Studios brings us a Windows Q*Bert remake. A unique feature of this game is that you can rotate the view with the left and right arrow keys.

DOWNLOAD Q*BERT: http://www.evl.uic.edu/spiff/class/cs426/projects/fall2003/JogosStudios/index.htm
OS: Windows

If you’ve been watching way too many Space:1999 re-runs like I have lately, you might have gotten the urge to travel through space and explore the universe. If so, here’s a neat little portable app to help you do that; it’s called Celestia and it’s available at portableapps.com. Here’s an image of the Moon:

The portableapps version is for Windows, but if you go to the Celestia web site, you’ll also find versions for Mac and Linux.

Enigma is a puzzle remake of Atari’s Oxyd. The goal is to roll your marble around so that it hits the special Oxyd stones (usually they are located along the level’s outer walls, like the black stones in the screenshot below), which then open to reveal a coloured tile. You can open two at a time and have to match each pair together to solve the level. That sounds easy right? The fun part is that each level has tons of traps and puzzles that make it really challenging to get to those Oxyd stones!

Believe it or not, this free game has over 1,000 levels; that should keep us all pretty busy for some time!

Download: http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/index.html . Enigma is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.