Let's take a jaunt back, to the early days of DOS, from the early 1980s to early 1990s. Way back to IBM PC DOS 1.00 and 1.10. Back when Bill Gates wrote code. This was the time of avoiding donkeys on the road (gameplay), gorillas lobbing explosive bananas over skyscrapers (gameplay) and a hungry line named Nibbles [a variant of the older Snake game] (gameplay). So have at it! Gorillas recreated in Flash | Flash tribute to Gorillas, with updated graphics | Snake | two-player Nibbles | Radical Snake (now with curves) | Snake (like Radical Snake, but with landscape obstacles) | Nibblets (All 10 original levels from the QBasic game Nibbles, but with a new control system) | Snake/Nibbles for Vim (download) | Donkey (QBasic source code)
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 11, 2009 - 22 comments

There are plenty of skiing games (many online), from dodging drunken skiers (flash, French) to the basic downhill skiing (java) but the grand-daddy of skiing games is SkiFree (previously), iteself based on the older Atari Skiing game. SkiiFree has been remade into a basic version built from SkiFree sprites and HTML Canvas, and the more complex flash version of the freestyle course, which includes the monster.
posted by filthy light thief on Dec 4, 2009 - 22 comments

You are a shark. You swim off the coast of Florida. You dive in and out of the water to smash boats, and you can pull jumbo jets out of the sky WITH YOUR TEETH. You are Miami Shark. Via Rockpapershotgun. [more inside]
posted by Decimask on Oct 9, 2009 - 58 comments

iNudge Is a software music toy that lets you create and share short snippets of music.
posted by empath on Sep 25, 2009 - 21 comments

Hey, Tower Defense fans: do you like cake? How about pirates? Want to combine the three? Just in time for (almost) Friday, it's Cake Pirates!
posted by sarcasticah on Sep 24, 2009 - 11 comments

Silent conversation, a truly beautiful flash game that has you trying to touch as many words of a poem as you can. (Yes it does have Williams Carlos Williams) [more inside]
posted by litleozy on Aug 14, 2009 - 16 comments

RUN! is a single-button flash game. Hold A to run, and let it go to slow down. There are three difficulty settings and five levels. The music, design and sfx are off-putting. You will probably either hate it or play it for about 3 hours, and then hate it. [more inside]
posted by Damn That Television on Jul 27, 2009 - 53 comments

Fried Gibson. I've always thought you were safe in a house from lightning storms as long as you were off the land-line or computer. A Mississippi man's Gibson Les Paul got positively roasted while sitting in his home, in its case, leaning against a wall. That's a powerful bolt. Lots of gory photos here and in the auction linked above including a nice shot of some of the parts that exploded off of the guitar, some shooting like bullets through the case. Awesome! And it still held quite a bit of its value. Via [more inside]
posted by JBennett on Jul 10, 2009 - 49 comments

Just a little too late for Flash Friday, it's Flash Doom 2D, a fairly solid side-scroller.via Aaron Williams. [more inside]
posted by Pope Guilty on Jun 6, 2009 - 11 comments

Madness Combat Defense, an evolution of the tower defense game.
posted by XMLicious on Jun 5, 2009 - 42 comments

Flash Friday: Nevermore 3 The latest game in the Nevermore series by Adam Westerman. [more inside]
posted by Fleebnork on Mar 27, 2009 - 11 comments

Shoot the fast shinies with your fast shiny! Ponies for all!
posted by leotrotsky on Mar 12, 2009 - 17 comments

Flash Friday RPG Fun: Hands of War. Set in a kingdom in the midst of a civil war, choose the factions you support while re-assembling the Heartstone.
posted by never used baby shoes on Feb 13, 2009 - 18 comments

Friday fun: The revamped Globulos! [more inside]
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane on Jan 9, 2009 - 3 comments

Nostalgic for a time when robots tried to kill you while being condescending? Well, Hunted Forever isn't Portal, but if you're jonesing for some Flash Friday, it might be right up your alley.
posted by 235w103 on Nov 28, 2008 - 15 comments

Super Stacker. Flash Friday fun with a physics-based stacking game. (Via JIG).
posted by afx237vi on Nov 21, 2008 - 16 comments

Auditorium is a musical flash game where you influence a stream of particles with gravity-based nodes. A steady stream of particles past a collector enables a layer of music. Good fun! Via Jay is Games
posted by closetphilosopher on Nov 21, 2008 - 15 comments

Mastermind: World Conquerer puts you in the role of the evil Mastermind, supergenius bent on destroying* the world. A great ending and some hilarious dialogue make this game a gem. Hey, it's Friday in Australia by now, right? (via jig) [more inside]
posted by Eideteker on Oct 16, 2008 - 17 comments

Blocky 2. Simple kiddie game with cutesy graphics and annoying sound effects, or addictive puzzle with surprising depth and strategy? Both? Either way, I've played it too often; now it's your turn. [more inside]
posted by yhbc on Aug 15, 2008 - 22 comments

Casual Collective has been linked before[Previously, and Previously-er], but they have some more recent, well-crafted games. [more inside]
posted by owtytrof on Jun 27, 2008 - 19 comments

Crates are falling out of the sky. Push them off the platform. Keep doing it until one of them crushes you. Which it will. Soon. [more inside]
posted by yhbc on Jun 27, 2008 - 47 comments

Friday Flash Fun: Caravaneer is a game where you are a caravan leader in a post-apocalyptic world where towns and cities have formed around oases in the desert. [more inside]
posted by schyler523 on May 30, 2008 - 10 comments

Planet Defender by MeFi's own justkevin. [more inside]
posted by WalterMitty on May 23, 2008 - 36 comments

Flash Friday Doeo Simple, amusing, addictive.
posted by mikoroshi on Apr 18, 2008 - 15 comments

Flash Friday: Filler. Fill the 2/3 of the available space using as few spheres as possible while avoiding the bouncing balls.
posted by ooga_booga on Feb 1, 2008 - 34 comments

After playing Areas, I now feel the world needs more no-click ambient shmups. [via] [more inside]
posted by Plutor on Dec 28, 2007 - 29 comments

Just in time for Flash Friday, Slate lists the best free online games. The first one they mention, The Tall Stump, has been on MeFi previously, but there's more—even an Infocom-style text-based game.
posted by cerebus19 on Dec 21, 2007 - 9 comments

Give ten grains of rice for each word you get right. It builds up very quickly.
posted by divabat on Oct 17, 2007 - 131 comments

Friday Flash Fun: Kongregate has a variety of games, including my current fave Castlewars, a card based game where you win by building up your own castle, or utterly destroying your opponent's castle. You may also enjoy luminara, which I can only describe as the dance version of Asteroids. Or, you could just have a monkey fire at balloons with darts.
posted by booksherpa on Jun 8, 2007 - 10 comments

It's almost better than bubble-wrap. Just touch your expanding dot to make contact with other dots. Clear an entire screen and you'll see Boomshine. Friday flash fun was never so gentle.
posted by squidfartz on Apr 13, 2007 - 66 comments

Get Hostile! - Inspired by the well-beloved Avalon Hill board game Acquire, Get Hostile! is a free, web-based board game that has already sucked up hours of my time. Check out the quick tutorial to get up to speed, then play against live opponents or AI's, forming corporations, buying stock, and doing hostile takeovers!
posted by ikkyu2 on Feb 1, 2007 - 11 comments

Flash Friday: Reaction Effect Click the circles to try to setup a chain reaction. Via games1.org, which also features cubefeild and drift
posted by delmoi on Sep 1, 2006 - 30 comments

Friday Flash Fun: Orbox B, the sequel to Orbox. [previously]
posted by knave on Mar 30, 2006 - 21 comments

Super Mario Brothers sound effects. Boing! Boing! CRUNCH! Ding! Ding! Ding! Whoop! Boing!
posted by Robot Johnny on Feb 3, 2006 - 23 comments

War of The Hell. World of Sand. Hell of Sand. Cat Sledging. Java Friday. [via]
posted by empath on Dec 30, 2005 - 19 comments

Letters If your screen isn't facing anyone, it looks like you're doing work. Happy flash friday everyone!
posted by BuddhaInABucket on Nov 11, 2005 - 34 comments

Friday flash fun! Try Poom! You move a constantly changing floor around in a virtual 3-D space so that a ball will bounce on it. Curiously entertaining...

There goes the rest of my day. via zannah
posted by jasper411 on Aug 19, 2005 - 27 comments

Sugar Crash! Happy friday, kids!
posted by BuddhaInABucket on Jul 22, 2005 - 12 comments

Safeplaces is an interactive playground. Mushrooms twitch and squeak, trees react and the environment shifts between day and night. It even has its secrets. Further, less adorable work can be found here.
posted by Alison on Apr 28, 2005 - 8 comments

Hero Machine 2. Like Hero Machine Classic, but not.
posted by armoured-ant on Nov 22, 2004 - 12 comments

Catch and Release As I find this nearly impossible I have great confidence that the mefites will quickly master this. It beats working. Fun Flash Friday
posted by geekyguy on Aug 20, 2004 - 18 comments

Friday scary-flash spook-a-thon: The Minister of Fear [via Kos]
posted by moonbird on Jul 16, 2004 - 1 comment

Psychopong - See if you can beat all 5 levels [Friday Shockwave Fun]
posted by falconred on Jun 4, 2004 - 9 comments

The Veridian Room is Toshimitsu Takagi's long awaited sequel to The Crimson Room. Point and click puzzlers to destroy your brain. Just in time to eat away your whole Flash Friday. Mirror here. Via my mate Duncan, who got it from Albino Blacksheep.
posted by armoured-ant on Apr 29, 2004 - 22 comments

Friday Flash Fun. Grow weird things on a weird planet... weirdly. via boing-boing
posted by seanyboy on Feb 20, 2004 - 25 comments

looney tunes games [note: flash]
posted by crunchland on Jan 9, 2004 - 1 comment

The game designers at Orsinal have been busy since we last discussed them, with a number of new amusing & lovely games. For those who haven't been there yet, and for those who haven't been there in a while, stop by and play... if only all flash animation were done with this degree of care and attention to aesthetic.
posted by jonson on Aug 6, 2003 - 12 comments

Friday Flash: Move Your Butt! This Frogger adaptation is a promotion for a new children's book from Scholastic, The Day My Butt Went Psycho! Where does a book like this come from? Australia, of course. (Link via the Spinnoff Forums.)
posted by UKnowForKids on Apr 11, 2003 - 5 comments

RummyCo: Your full service Pentagon! Hey, its flash friday.
posted by skallas on Apr 11, 2003 - 3 comments

Fiendish bouncing snake game. Requires Java and lots of spare time.
posted by Spoon on Apr 2, 2003 - 6 comments