Decker's Delight Links (5.Jun.07)

Gnomes know they can always rely on Deckers to help 'em out with a blog when things get tough (and hectic as hell). Then again, why should you care? Better ignore this intro bit altogether and jump straight to some of the more interesting and eclectic gaming ...uh... stuff the Internet has recently spawned. The rest of the best will soon follow.

The Free Geek, being free, a geek and apparently quite fond of freeware games has compiled a Top 10 list featuring 10 free online games. Definitely worth a look, especially if you feel the very kitsch very addictive SpaceCowboy can be your thing.

Malinche Entertainment, the only contemporary (I think; please, feel free to correct me) developer of commercial interactive fiction / text adventure games, has gone all retro and created a brilliant Zork tribute page, properly celebrating 30 years of Zork. There's also a chance you might get your very own Zork t-shirt...

Old fashioned adventures might also appreciate an impressive feature by Destructoid regarding the beautiful but obscure Neverhood. The only game that will ever dare compete with the visuals of Tim Burton's Nightmare before Christmas.

Old fashioned pirates, on the other hand, will definitely enjoy the Escapist's refreshing look at software piracy by reading the aptly titled Playground Piracy and the Schoolyard of Crime. Oh, and kids, remember: corporations are killing art way faster than piracy.

As for Game Set Watch, well, it's got another quirky retro post and a brand new column for your reading pleasure: Rampage's Original Stylings. Obviously about the multi-format classic Rampage.

Now, to my newest obsession... The utterly brilliant Richard Cobbett Journal, a hallowed place of rare Internet quality and excellent prose, that just came up with Cirque du Strange. A loving tribute to the strangest, weirdest, or just plain wrong-est moments in PC gaming.

Equally eloquent, The Luddite, is the Last Guy in the World to See Star Wars. Yes, 30 years too late. Apparently he wasn't exactly thrilled and I'm pretty sure he's not convinced of the aesthetics of croissant-styled hair.

Finally, the NSFW bit, provided of course you work at a church or a kindergarten: Eurogamer's naughty and self-explanatory Bluffer's Guide to Hentai Games.

The now traditional Quick Links:

• Last Scenario, a pretty epic freeware CRPG as discovered by Independent Gaming.
• gHacks presents: Anti-DRM t-shirt designs
• The Elderly Gamer presents the five -admittedly attractive- faces of Lara Croft.
• Siliconera is searching for the original Nintendo DS browser.
• The Saturn Junkyard goes into another (very informative) Segata Sanshiro phase.
• The Nintendo Gamecube Retro Compilation Library by Racket Boy the Great.
• Fallout 3: The Teaser video @ Bits Bytes Pixels Sprites
• Astonishingly both Retro Treasures and Gaming on the Go are alive and kicking!