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Old school gamers love the nostalgic feeling from playing games of the 80s and 90s, even in emulated mode with the state-of-the art gaming mouse and keyboard on a duo-core computer. Obviously, a few of us would go as far as bidding for an original Atari console, but at least we can now get a controller that the mimics the feel of the classic joystick.

Compatible with virtually any emulators whether they be Mame, Daphne, or Stella, the aptly-named Legacy USB joystick looks exactly like an Atari controller from the 80s (or is it 70s?), but ressurected in the 21st century, it interfaces with a PC/Mac/Linux with USB. The Legacy however comes merely with a single button. Luckily, the circuit board provides an 10 internal contact points for wiring up to the same amount of additional fire buttons. If a $400 Wii is out of your budget for this year Christmas holiday, then maybe get yourself a $14.99 Legacy USB joystick along with free ROMs floating on the Internet.

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rlax!, is a great puzzle game. You are playing against time. Stay focused and click fast. Play through 20 different levels, click on tiles that are not covered by other tiles to remove them.

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Imperium will bring you into empire theme to build, develop, and extend your empire. Build resident house for workers that will work for you at developing your empire and troops, there are more than 20 building types in this game that you can build in 12 cities, each city has 4 land areas with different landscapes. Train your troops: human troop, horse troop, elephant troop, catapult troop, witch troop and super soldier. Use 4 weapon types, 4 type of catapult ammunitions and 5 magic types to equip your war troop. That is depend on what type of troop do you want and which city will be attacked, but watch out for surprise attack from the enemy. Defeat opponent and win all wars for your empire feather in one’s cap.

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This online game is inspired by the simple logic game that you know and love/hate so well. But in addition to changing the background rather dramatically, Minesweeper Flash shows the board at an angle. I wouldn’t exactly call this a 3D version of Minesweeper, because the board is still on a single plane (you don’t move vertically, just horizontally).

But somehow adding a little tilt to the board makes game play a lot more challenging. Don’t believe me? Give it a try. It’s a bit like learnign to play the game all over again.

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Yet another “tower defense” game? These games are very derivative, but the thing is, they’re extremely fun to play. Whiteboard Tower Defense uses a whiteboard metaphor for your battleground, which works insofar as it gives a excuse for a new version of the game with different towers and enemies to deal with.

The graphics are predictably sparse, consisting only of single-color towers and enemies on a white background. The sound effects are cute, but maybe a little annoying – though since most people will likely be playing this at work, make sure to hit the mute button at the top-right of the window. Armor Games seems to consistently produce high-quality browser gaming, and this game while not a standout certainly fits in with their stable of games.

The game play in Whiteboard Tower Defense is surprisingly challenging, with the Easy level providing significantly more difficulty than Easy on the original Tower Defense game. I shudder to think how difficult the higher levels are.

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