My favourite games

• Traditional games
  • Go and IGS (log in as guest)
  • Shogi
  • Xiang-qi
  • Mancala
• Board games
  • Civilization (Avalon Hill)
  • 1830
  • Awful Green Things from Outer Space
• Computer games
  • Dungeon Master (FTL) and the sequel, Chaos Strikes Back
  • Ultima IV (Origin)
  • Angband
  • Nethack
  • Omega (and the tank game by Origin with the same name...)
  • The Secret of Monkey Island
  • Boulderdash
  • The Return of the Ring (Dragon 32 game)
• PBM games:
  • Adventurer Kings
  • Starweb
  • Phoenix
• Text adventures
  • Anything by Topologika (especially Acheton and Fyleet)
  • Almost anything by Infocom (except the detective ones...)
  • Colossal Cave (of course!))
  • Curses, by Graham Nelson (by reputation)
  • see r.g.i-f ftp site for Infocom file readers and Nelson's "Inform" language
  • Eileen Mullin has some good stuff on her page.