Speed! More speed!
The
1001 list isn't perfect. It can't be. Nobody would be able to agree on the contents of the list if there were only 1,002 games in existence, such are our likes and dislikes across genre or difficulty. What it can do, if not definitively stamp a seal of approval upon 1,001 games, is highlight some of the many games that fly under the radar.
There was a time at school where some friends of mine would bring in copies of
Zork to play on the school computers. I wasn't interested in
Zork for very long, but when the likes of
Geometry Wars hit the screens, now things were getting interesting. The Internet wasn't just beginning, but it certainly wasn't what it is now. Flash games were entertaining to a point, but when someone got an actual small game up and running, that was a talking point.
Nobody, to my knowledge, got
Torus Trooper out to play, but it was the kind of
free download that might well have done, if anyone had known about - or stumbled across - its developers humble little website.
