I played a lot of poker in high school. That was back in the mid-1970s. Poker for high school students wasn't like it is today. There was no Internet, no televised poker tournaments, and surely no legal poker rooms in New York where I grew up. For high school kids especially, poker was strictly an underground game illegal, forbidden, and compelling. For us it was like smoking cigarettes or drinking beer or smoking pot or getting laid. You wanted to do it because it was forbidden. And it was fun.
A favorite variety of the game back then was guts. We generally played it in the senior room of the high school a private room set aside only for seniors where we got away with playing poker because faculty didn't enter (unless they smelled cigarettes or pot). Small fortunes changed hands over this game. And we were all on very short bankrolls.
More Funny Games News
Black and White 2 Review FunnyGames, October 25, 2005Peter Molyneux's
Black and White was universally hailed as an innovative switch-up in gaming prior to its launch, and frustrated critics referred to it as a toy once they'd had a chance to see the depth of the title's gameplay. The design of the sequel,
Black and White 2, seems to be a deliberate response to the denouncements leveled at the original game. The result is a more traditional, less open-ended RTS with some identity issues. Despite that, being a god still has as much appeal as it did back in the days of Populous. Read on for impressions of Molyneux's marriage of Nintendogs and Age of Empire:
Black and White 2.
Read full story at:
www.slashdot.org
Review: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. FunnyGames, April 10, 2007It's been over five years in the making and it's gotten pretty close to the top of a lot of lists of software that might never be released, but here it is: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. This first person shooter, from Eastern European developer GSC Game World, promises a new kind of open-ended FPS gameplay where there are many different ways you can progress and lots of non-critical quests and tasks you can do before getting to the end of the game.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in the future in the Zone, an area surrounding the melted down nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl power plant in Russia. You play a character who showed up with no memory and only a...
Read full review at:
www.atomicgamer.com
Random FunnyGames list
 |
Monster Truck Racing
You must race you monster truck home before midnight. Crush other cars on your way home but avoid hitting pedestrians an...
|
 |
Mario Brother 2
An awesome game taken from the Nintendo. Who doesn't love Mario? In this version you can play level 2 of Mario. Dodge th...
|
 |
Panik
Our hero, Panik, has found a way into the lowest level of the factory and now has to work his way up through all the flo...
|
|
Most Popular FunnyGames list
 |
Tetris Bomb (8 plays)
In this Tetris version you have bombs attached to some of the Tetris blocks. Use the bombs and let some of the blocks ex...
|
 |
Mario Tower Defense (7 plays)
Bowser and his army destroyed your bank and took every coin. Now he is after the princess in the tower of the castle. De...
|
 |
Hacker (5 plays)
Think you can hack?
Try hacking your way into this system....if you can!
|
|