Warp wrote:
>   With the recent gaming-related threads, I thought about creating one
> myself: Do you have any game gems which you would recommend people to try?
> Maybe an older game which most people have forgotten, which is still today
> as great as back then? Or a game which didn't get too much media attention
> but is actually incredibly cool?

I don't play games very often any more, but here's a few that I've enjoyed:


Cave Story:
Freeware download.  A pixel-art side scrolling platformer in the style 
of some SNES games.  Very well made and a lot of fun.


I Wanna Be the Guy:
Freeware download from http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/
Known for being almost impossibly difficult, and it's a bit glitchy too. 
  I can't quite describe why I enjoy playing it so much, but it does 
have lots of nice references to old-school console games.


Chrono Trigger:
An RPG for the SNES, you can find a rom for an emulator pretty easily, 
or buy it used if you still own the console.


Monkey Island (series):
Old PC game.  Gameplay is ehhh, but the writing is top-notch and very funny.


Katamari Damacy:
Available on most modern consoles.  Too weird not to like.


My brother swears by Dwarf Fortress (http://bay12games.com/dwarves/) 
which is a free ASCII-graphics game in which you attempt to build, well, 
a dwarven fortress.  Apparently the depth of the interactions you can 
see in this game is almost unparalleled, to the point where it's a 
common practice to post stories about what happened in the game.  See 
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Stories for a list of short 
stories, or http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/intro.html for a 
hilarious story of a game played by a group of people (you probably 
don't need to have played the game to enjoy it).

I've also enjoyed playing World of Goo a bit recently, and it makes a 
relatively easy but still quite enjoyable puzzle game.  You can download 
it for $20 if you're interested.

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