If you ever want to know why wearing a life jacket is important then try this scrolling game.  This game doesn't really have a category unless it may be a story game.  You are a french man in a sailboat on a nice day when you get knocked off the boat and fall into the ocean.  You have to continuously scroll with your mouse or mouse pad.  You work on keeping the energy of the sailor up until the boat turns around and comes back.  The water is cold and your blood pressure slowly falls.  Your hands and feet go numb and you do anything to keep the feeling in your limbs.  You begin to hallucinate and freak out.  Eventually your life flashes before you eyes and you lose your energy and drown.  

This game looks like it was filmed, but it is hard to tell where the video ends and the CGI begins.  It is an artwork of a game and it really makes me want to always wear a life jacket.  It scared me when he pulls his finger nail off to keep feeling his fingers.  I made it for 6 min and 37 sec.  If you want an interesting experience while gaming then play this game.

Kingdom Rush is a tower defense game.  It is a casual game for an app on a smart phone.  You strategically put towers along a defined path to kill enemies.  After winning all the rounds in a section, you get stars to improve you defenses fom the start of the game.  You upgrade the towers to kill big hordes of the enemies and take down the bigger and badder foes.  It reminds me of Civilizaion and Actraiser in the fact that you control many players that help defeat enemies. You also grow you defenses during each section.

I love TD games! I have a very strategic mind to expertly place the towers in such a way that I get three stars in almost every section.  It is aesthetically pleasing so I don't mind playing it for a long time.  It really hard to find a good TD game, but I think Kingdom Rush has the right formula.  The only thing I wish they had was a fast forward button to kill the slow strong enemies faster.

Line Rider

Line rider is a game that really makes us focus on the 'art' of video games.  You draw lines with the mouse or a drawing pad to create a path for the rider to ride along.  The original version is much simpler than its successors.  You are given one type of ink to draw with and physics does the rest of the work.  It is a very physics-oriented game.  

I like this game in the fact that it gives the player a creative ability.  You are not the character, but you do help the character.  This game has not goal or task to complete.  This game created alot of user videos of what can be done with some creative thinking and physics.  It is hard to relate this game to other games.

Don't Look Back

Don't Look Back is an 8-bit-like game.  You start out at a tombstone and move from static screen to static screen.  You are given a gun to defend yourself from the monsters along the way.  If you go back a screen you reset the screens ahead of you.  If you die you reset the screen you are on or the set of screens you are on. 

This game frustrates me when I either have to go back or I die.  It is really simple game play, yet you have to use skill to overcome the obstacles.  It could be seen as having heavy influence from Super Mario Bros.  It can be seen as a throwback game to a time when graphics were simpler and game play was extremely skill based.

ActRaiser

Before being given this game to play I had never heard of this game.  It is a mix between a side-scroller and a RPG.  You are a angel who has been weakened and must clear up the world for people to inhabit.  The people find object to offer up to you and you control the weather and keep monsters at bay.  You control how the people grow and try to seal up the monsters' layers.

I would like this game better if I had an actual console in my possession to play it on.  It is tons of fun, but still challenging enough to make me want to keep playing it.  It reminds me of Civilization and Castlevania rolled together to make one big game.  I was annoyed at the bat-like monsters and the dragons that kept killing my people.

NHL '95

I love hockey and I was so excited when I heard that I was getting a chance to play NHL '95.  You can have any team you want face each other or you can play through a season.  It lets you customize your game. You can turn on and off penalties and line changes.  It lets you manage the team and be a GM for the team.  It reminds me of the current hockey and most sports games of the day.  I really like the face-off focus and the goalies in the game.

I don't like the fact that it changes the player your controlling when you have control of the puck.  This is unlike most games today where you are a specific character and play almost the entire game as that character.  In my opinion the players and game move slowly when compared to a real hockey game and the video games of today.  It seems to drag on until someone manages to score.  Overall it is a fun game to play with friends.

Chrono Trigger is an RPG by Square, where the main character, Crono, spans time to fix history and save the future from the alien life-form that fell to earth in the prehistoric ages.  This game features turn-based fighting that occurs in the same setting where general navigation occurs. It also lets you control the main character and his companions.  The are lots of places to travel in the world.  There are thirteen different endings to the game.  

The artwork is by the same artist, Akira Toriyama, that did Dragon Quest and Dragon Ball.  I love this art style in games, it is really easy to draw them in an 8- or 16-bit system.  There is strong influence from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, but it is still a game all its own.  Square really understands how to make a great RPG.