http://www.legendsofyore.com/

In browser roguelike, but I spend ridiculous amounts of time with the Android version.

Playing
— Triple Town – match 3 with a nice twist (available on Kindle, Google+ and Facebook currently) http://www.tripletown.com/
— Panda Poet (Casual Scrabble meets Go for two players) http://game.pandapoet.com/

I’ve been playing Kingdom of Loathing for about six years now, on and off. It has cheesy, black-and-white stick-figure graphics and a simple interface and design reminiscent of early RPG’s, for the most part. While it can be easily approached as a coffee-cup game, where you play using similar mechanics to old-school RPG’s while enjoying the humorous lampooning of the genre (and others, and pop culture, and just about anything), it also adds a level of depth and replayability through its slightly-Nethack-like ascension system, allowing you to improve your character each time you “beat” the game and go again.

@ icebrain:

Oh, nice. Thanks for the links.

Every once in a while I dust off the old MAME emulator, DOSBox and do just that – binge on the classics till I’m sick of them. :)

I once got Amiga emulator going though I recall that finding the appropriate kickstart roms was a pain in the ass (mostly because Amiga refuses to die, and still somehow makes enough money to pay someone to send out takedown notices) :P

For web games, Canabalt is my favorite, although oldies like Alien Hominid and Hexxagon are good too.

Currently I’ve been playing an open-source clone of Puyo-puyo, called Flobopuyo. Unfortunately it’s easier than the original – I now consistently beat the Hard levels after a few hours of (non-consecutive) playing.

Generally, I prefer old arcade games on emulators than Flash games, they have often better artwork and more levels. Genesis (Mega Drive) and SNES emulators are particularly appropriate.