AOL Classic Java Games - access point for internet access to AOL chess, checkers, go, reversi, drawing, lineup and tic tac toe multiplayer game playing/chat. Games parties Tue 8pm Eastern, Thu 5pm Eastern
ARMADA (battleship) - nice point and click interface
ATTACKTRIS - very involved game somewhat like chess, can be played either local for practise or networked to the server vs. another player on the internet
Abalone - push your opponent's pieces off the board
AdiosAmoebas - You are a Herculean teddy bear wandering through an ever changing maze collecting ammo. for your amoebae shooter.
Alien Landing - java lunar lander game that's best on a SLOW machine - on a 166MHz pentium the lander just augers in immediately!
AllLights
AllLights - simple java puzzle - just turn on all the lights - however some go off when others are turned on
Allan and Nili's Homepage - contains a java applet to play Life and programming stuff!
Antarctic - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Apple II racecar game - straight track, use the arrow keys and avoid the other cars
Araknoid - java version that didn't work for me in netscape 3.01
Artemis - java space invaders-like game that running in Netscape 3.01 may have caused my W95/pentium to lock up forcing a reset and reboot:-(
Aster - java asteroids with solid grey round asteroids and no teleport
Asteroids '96 - java with shotgun, reverse fire and other features
Atoms - Player and computer take turns playing up to four nuclei into a space on a 8x8 board - when the fourth is played, it undergoes fission and spreads nuclei into nextdoor squares, possible starting a chain reaction changing square colors. Same as Automaton Wars below except that this has 8x8 2D board and no animation.
Automaton Wars - same as atoms above, but with a smaller 6x6 3D board, and animation of the chain reactions
BBApplet - Java basketball - take a few practise shots in demo mode, then go to game mode
BD4 - multilevel arcade game mining through earth looking for gems and avoiding falling rocks and various monsters
BackSlide - double-sided sliding-block puzzle with a twist
Backgammon
Backgammon - play against an opponent over the internet - requires registration - has chat room
Ballistic Game!
Bareknuckle Boxin with Casey - takes a long time to download
Battle
Battleship - Play against the computer in this Java version of the Milton Bradley game.
Battleship - nice point and click interface
Battleship Game
Black Box - determine the locations of atoms by sending rays in from the edge of the board and seeing where they come out
Black Jack
BlackJack
Blackjack - beat other players scores - requires registration
Blackjack - java version
Blender - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Blocks
Blocks - tetris
Blocks - tetris-like
Boss - a picture sliding 16-puzzle that may be a self-fulfilling prophesy (german instructions)
Boulderdash - 30 free levels in java applet but load from the local merror site
Bowling - java game that is just as tricky as the real thing
Breakout
Breakout - java version that's quite a challenge controlling the paddle with a mouse
Bricks - breakout
Bushka Player - game is a variant of draughts or checkers
C Pong - play pong with your mouse - java version
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Cadmus Air Assult - java, very playable
CafeSweeper - minesweeper, see also Mine Sweep
Caffeine Battleship - yet another battleship game
Cannon - classic artillery duel
Car Jam - puzzle to slide the cars out of each other's way
Car Racing Game - straight track with arrow mouse faster/slower/left/right control and task is to avoid other cars and oil slicks
Carpet Golf - Very tricky miniature golf
Casino - play roulette, blackjack,mini-baccarat, slots, or poker-machine for free
Casino Games Blackjack - slick graphics
Casino Games Poker - coming soon
Cathedral - pentominoes-like game starting with a cross-shaped piece being played on the board
Cats and Ladders - like chutes and ladders or snakes and ladders
Centipede
Centipedo - the arcade classic
Challenge Light Blue - take turns with the applet to join two dots in a grid with the idea of enclosing as many squares as possible
Checkers - this is the version to play - drag and drop, and rather slow animation, but a mean computer opponent
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents, nice board though
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents
Checkers/Draughts - no computer or network opponents - play both sides at your screen
Checkers/Draughts Playing Wonder - allows human-human, human-computer, or computer-computer play with variable search depth and some interesting commentary on the algorithm
Chess - java applet that can be set to think for varying times and plays a tough game
Chinese Checkers
Chinese Checkers - a free downloadable applet - not playable over the net
Chinese Checkers Board Game - applet with many awards and three levels of play is worth downloading all the way from Hong Kong
Christmas Solitaire - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
CirclemaniA - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Closer - reveal a hidden pictur by clicking on adjacent blocks of the same color to remove them - requires registration
CollosalCaveAdventure - an original adventure game restored painstakingly to ultimate perfection
ColorFall - A colorful Java game. Seems to be a cross breed somewhere between tic tac toe and connect four.
Colors game - Try to line up different colored pieces on a 8x8 board with three more pieces added after each move
Colossal Cave - the original adventure game in a Java applet.
Congo - interesting chess variant on a 7x7 board with lions, giraffes, elephants, zebras, monkeys, a river, and crocodiles.
Connect 4
Connect 4 Game - connect four with variable geometry, gravity, and players (human/computer)
Connect 5 - on a 20x20 board
Connect Four (dutch version) - Slick but buggy version with Dutch instructions. Links to many other games
Connect Four - Slick but buggy version with English instructions
Connect Four preview release multiplayer java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Connect It - excellent version with three levels of difficulty and annoying beeping when it beats you
Connect4
Copycat - reproduce a pattern by rolling a cube with different patterns on each face over a surface
Craps - with sound effects as your money disappears
Crazy Eights
Crossword
Crossword - various puzzles of varying difficulty
Crosswords - weekly prize crossword
Cybermagic - java slot machine that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
DK_Othello - solid version with computer or human opponents with chat, but auto URL forwarding makes this site extremely annoying when trying to back out
DOR Cino Casino
Dame - draughts/checkers variant
Diceridoo - slick yahtzee-like dice game
Domination - asteroids like game with 4 teams of different colors with networked play and chat included or you can practise offline
Don's Dugout - like "Dig Dug"
Dots - join the dots to surround more squares than the computer
Dragon Chess (Puzzle Adventure Game) - simple rogue-like game played on 8x8 levels, multiplayer version coming soon< /A>
Dumb Luck - fast thinking needed to win at this game where three players (!) pound on your keyboard at once
EEEUUWW!
Election97 - British political contest AKA Snakes and Leaders
Emergo - checkers/draughts variant on a hexagonal board
Enigma - java applet that poses Enigma machine style letter substitution ciphers and allows you to try to solve using letter frequencies and switching pairs of letters. A new puzzle every day
Escape - move the bricks over the stars by pushing them around - requires registration
Expert Backgammon For Java - several options, but a slow game and poor graphics
Fedora
Forgotten World - Multiplayer Java realm where players build countries and conquer other players
Forinna Row - slick multilevel four-in-a-row game that's very easy until the fourth level
Freecell
Frogger
FunSchool - several excellent educational java games for preschoolers through first graders
Galaga
Galaxiworld Online Casino - Online Casino in test mode as of Halloween 1998 with no cash changing hands
GlassBeadGame - mancala variant
Grand Chess Introduction - a chess variant on a 10x10 board with two extra pieces on each side, a marshall (combination of rook and knight) and cardinal (combination of bishop an knight). Can download a shareware W95 program to play the full game.
Hangman
Hangman
Hanoi - java Tower of Hanoi game (german instructions)
Havannah - checkers/draughts variant
Head-To-Head baseball - draft your own team
HexDame - Dame (see above) on a hexagonal board
Hexe - java puzzle where you place tiles so each of their four edges match their neighbors (german instructions)
Hunt the Wumpus
Hyper Plasma Ball - soccer on a motorcycle using arrow keys and a moving goal - very tough
Iceblox
Infocom Sampler 1 - original text adventure excerpts: Zork I, Infidel, Planetfall, and Witness, in a java applet
Infocom Sampler 2 - original text adventure excerpts: Zork I, Leather Godesses of Phobos, and Trinity, in a java applet
Instant Ballpark
Java Craps
JavaBang - Gobang in java, or get five in a row
JavaPool - easy and fun version
Jigsaw - java picture puzzles that you solve by dragging and dropping the pieces into place (german instructions)
Jigsaw Puzzle
Jigsaw Puzzles
Jump - 3D game collect points and search for your vacuum cleaner
Kalah
Kalah - mancala-like game in java with variable levels of computer opponent
Ken Shirriff's Java applets: The Rolling Cubes Puzzle
Labyrinth - java 3D maze game (german instructions)
Life - Conway's cellular automata - used more CPU time in the 1970's than any other game
Lite8 - simple mancala variant
Lucky Cards - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Magic Cups - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Mahjongg - slick mahjongg game with authentic-looking tiles
Marble Jungle - paddle game like breakout but with different layout and changing colors
MasterMind - guess which slot machine fruit have been chosen
Matches
Mcii
Memory - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Memory - preview release multiplayer java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Minesweeper - java sweeper game (german instructions)
MiniZork - more infocom text adventure excerpts: Zork in a java applet
Mirkin's Darts - realistic graphics and learnable dart throwing mechanics make for a very good game
Mirkin's Pool - just like the darts game, excellent graphics and learnable mechanics make for a good game
Missile Commando
Missile Commando
Montana - java solitaire which requires a lot of thinking ahead and not much luck
Netrisk - multiplayer java Risk version - joina game or start your own - plays around 18:00 GMT
Nimskulls
Nine Men's Morris - classic board game referenced in A Midsummer Night's Dream - form rows of three men and pound your opponent (take one of his men) each time
Noughts and Crosses - AKA Tic Tac Toe
Numerix - preview release multiplayer java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Othello
Othello
Pack 'Em Up - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Patience - standard 7-column java patience/solitaire with cool college-ruled background
Pegged - java solitaire with progressively more difficult puzzles (german instructions)
Pentalpha
PentominosSolver - solves 8x8 pentomino layout with any four squares blocked
Picture Game
Piggybank - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Pinball
Ping 2
Ping Pong
PipeDream
Play Classic Trivia Blitz - Test your general trivia knowledge against the clock to win Weekly Prizes!
Play Entertainment Trivia Blitz - Test your entertainment trivia knowledge against the clock to win Weekly Prizes!
Play Sport Trivia Blitz - Test your sports trivia knowledge against the clock to win Weekly Prizes!
Poker
Poker - java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Poker - java version
Pool - numbered balls and easy mechanics
Puzzle - a trivial sliding 4-puzzle (german instructions)
Puzzle 15
Quiz The Season - Test your holiday season trivia knowledge against the clock to win Weekly Prizes!
Rally On The 'Net - tennis in flatland - hit the ball with your mouse - easier than it seems
Red Dog - java card game with a goal of drawing a card that is between the value of two other cards
Regular Solitaire
Reversi - excellent java reversi game that counts score and shows possible plays (german instructions)
Reversi/Othello - preview release multiplayer java game that may be slow to download from The Netherlands depending on your location and the time of day
Revolution - java card game in which the card order reverses when there's a revolution
RollerBoy - Cool 2D game collect rings and get to next level
Rubik's Cube
Safebreaker - slick mastermind-like game
Selkirk Solitaire - java
Shell-Ferrari Games - drive a very twitchy (yellow!?) Ferrari around Monza and try to keep it off the grass
Sim1 Cricket Simulator - unless you have played it, there's only one game more boring than cricket, and that's simulated cricket! As a kid I would roll special dice for hours to recreate five-day test matches.
Slider - java sliding block puzzle that is more difficult and more interesting that the usual 16-puzzle (german instructions)