The Internet is loaded with options for those who
love playing games. Be it chess, checkers, cards, or Tetris-type games,
there is a game somewhere on the Internet that will catch your fancy.
And, best of all, numerous are free.
Years ago, society saw technology making its life easier, and it was
good. Still, great minds pondered "What will people do with all the extra
time technology will afford them?" As the new century plods along, it
appears technology itself has solved the problem. Internet sites offer
thousands of free games for people needing to wile away the hours. This
article will tell you about these online gaming sites, and the
societies they create. It will also give you ideas of some new games for both
single- and multiple-users, as well as some of the potential pitfalls of
free online games.
Hold on to Your Cash
First of all, let it be known that this article is in regards to "free"
Internet games. We have heard on the grapevine that there are hundreds
of Web sites out there - based in places like Tonga, Peru, Bora-Bora,
etc. - that offer gaming especially for gamblers. Needless to say, this
article is not about those types of sites or games. Nor is it about
multi-player role-player games (RPGs). With some of the info-laden RPGs
available today, one would need extra bandwidth, along with an on-call
anthropologist and sociologist to figure out the complicated dynamics of
such games. No, this article is about the freebies - those simple,
easily available online games that can get any of us addicted.
Where are the Free Games?
A recent study showed that the world economy loses more than 7 trillion
man-hours of work per month due to people playing games in the office.
OK, that's not true, though serious gamers likely looked at that number
and thought, "That sounds about right." The reason for this is the easy
availability of free online games. Type the word "games" into any
search engine and you will come up with nearly a half-billion hits (that one
is true). The free game sites run from the massive - Yahoo offers
nearly 200 free games and can have as many as 200,000 people playing at any
given time - to smaller sites that have just a handful of games and a
small cadre of loyal players. Check around and you should be able to
find a game site that seems suited just for you.