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If you get the urge to play the original Tetris online, you'll find slightly more than just one or two versions out there - the net seems to be stuffed to overflowing with umpteen versions of the game. And mixed in amongst the good (as ever) are some rather dubious looking sites that want you to install their custom toolbars first...
Rather than you having to suffer by surfing through malware-laden pages, I've done all the hard work for you. I found a great little Flash implementation of Tetris that you'll simply spend hours and hours on. So, if you want to play Tetris for free, just click on the link below to play the original Tetris online:
http://www.toysforyourblog.com/games/tetris/
Warning: Woah, I'd forgotten just how addictive Tetris was. How can something so simply be so absolutely absorbing? I spent ages on there playing it! So, don't click on the link unless you've definitely got a fair bit of free time to spare.
But, hey, if you really must play the original Tetris online (and for free), that's the best one I've found so far. Right, I'm off back for another game to see if I can beat my high score...
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The first console to really take off on Swopster was the XBox 360. With quite a head-start over the PS3, the 360 really was the console to own back then. Fuelled by leading-edge titles like Gears of War, next-gen gamers simply flocked to it. Initially, this site was set-up to swap XBox 360 games, along with the other leading consoles.
Indeed, the 360 is still pretty firmly entrenched as the most popular console here - although the PS3 and Nintendo Wii are slowly making up ground on it. Game publishers don't seem to release that many games exclusively in a single format any more, and that probably makes it a bit trickier for the other consoles to catch up now.
Just looking at the numbers today:
• 156 completely different XBox 360 game titles to swap
• 1,002 individual XBox 360 games offered for swapping
• 1,324 individual XBox 360 games wanted
So, if you want to swap XBox 360 games, take a look through the game lists - there are plenty of XBox 360 games available to swap. Or check out our XBox 360 top games list to immediately see the most popular games.
The question "Where can I find tips on computer games" crops up with enough regularity that I thought I'd list my primary way of finding all those cheat codes, walkthroughs, and game guides.
There are so many sites out there catering for cheats, hints and tips on computer games that it is useful to filter them down to a manageable level.
And so we're off...straight to the mighty Google. The Big G. Now, with Google, you tend to find that what you put into it has a huge bearing on what you get out of it. You need to learn a bit of Google-Fu.
Typing in, say fifa 2008 when you're stuck trying to fathom FIFA's control system is going to bring up an ocean of unwanted search results. Good luck to searching through those thousands of links.
No, you need to give it a little more context... Expand your query to something a little more relevant to your problem: fifa 2008 hints or learn fifa 2008 tricks or even fifa 08 tricks guide - now you're giving google a lot more to work with and it'll automatically filter down those huge numbers of results.
But that's not all. You can go a step further than that - by wrapping your search phrase in double-quotes, you can tell google to only find those sites with exact matches. This means google won't do any guesswork - as long as you're phrase is used out there on the internet it'll just return those exact sites.
So now, you can use something like "fifa 2008 hints" or "learn fifa 2008 tricks" or "fifa 08 tricks guide" and you know you're getting much more relevant results.
There you go, it's as easy as that. The next time someone asks you "where can I find tips on computer games", just point them towards google and show them how to properly filter their search phrases.
Virtual simulations are, of course, extremely popular. The Sims and Tamagotchi are just two of the most well-known types of virtual games.
What's so great about virtual games are the virtual consequences - there's never any real mess to clear up. If you forget to feed your virtual character, no one actually dies. And if things do go badly, you can alway start again from scratch!
With the abundance of sim games out there, it means there are usually plenty of folks willing to swap - just check out our Sim game pages and see if anyone's willing to exchange a game with you:
The Sims (PC)
The Sims 2 (PC)
The Sims (PS2)
The Sims 2 (PS2)
With the XBox 360 proving to be such a popular game-swapping platform, I thought it was worth compiling a Swopster all-time XBox 360 top games chart, which makes it easy to quickly see if you have/want a popular top game.
Games for the XBox 360 are only included in the chart if more than one person owns them. And this covers all the Swopster gaming regions (USA, Canada, UK, Australia and NZ).
So, pop-pickers, here we go with the movers and shakers in the world of XBox 360 top games:
| | Position | Title |
| 1. | Gears of War |
| 2. | Halo 3 |
| 3. | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas |
| 4. | Crackdown |
| 5. | Assassin's Creed |
| 6. | Project Gotham Racing 3 |
| 7. | Grand Theft Auto IV |
| 8. | Dead Rising |
| 9. | Forza Motorsport 2 |
| 10. | Bioshock |
| 11. | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter |
| 12. | Saints Row |
| 13. | Colin McRae: DIRT |
| 14. | Call of Duty 4 |
| 15. | Call of Duty 3 |
| 16. | The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion |
| 17. | Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 |
| 18. | Mass Effect |
| 19. | Table Tennis |
| 20. | Fight Night Round 3 |
| 21. | Lost Planet: Extreme Condition |
| 22. | Hitman: Blood Money |
| 23. | Test Drive Unlimited |
| 24. | Pro Evolution Soccer 6 |
| 25. | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent |
| 26. | Perfect Dark Zero |
| 27. | Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars |
| 28. | The Darkness |
| 29. | Kameo: Elements of Power |
| 30. | Viva Pinata |
| 31. | Dead or Alive 4 |
| 32. | Call of Duty 2 |
| 33. | Condemned: Criminal Origins |
| 34. | Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 |
| 35. | Guitar Hero 2 with X-Plorer Guitar Controller |
| 36. | LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy |
| 37. | F.E.A.R |
| 38. | Madden NFL 07 |
| 39. | Marvel Ultimate Alliance |
| 40. | Spider-Man The Movie 3 |
| 41. | Battlefield 2: Modern Combat |
| 42. | Burnout: Revenge |
| 43. | FIFA 07 |
| 44. | Need for Speed: Carbon |
| 45. | Need for Speed: Most Wanted |
| 46. | Skate |
| 47. | Tony Hawk's Project 8 |
| 48. | Medal of Honor: Airborne |
| 49. | Stranglehold |
| 50. | Far Cry: Instincts - Predator |
| 51. | Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth II |
| 52. | Prey |
| 53. | WWE SmackDown vs. RAW 2007 |
| 54. | Burnout Paradise |
| 55. | Just Cause |
| 56. | Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend |
| 57. | Half Life 2: The Orange Box |
| 58. | Kane & Lynch: Dead Men |
| 59. | Pirates Of The Caribbean 3 |
| 60. | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 |
| 61. | Brian Lara Cricket 2007 |
| 62. | Madden NFL 08 |
| 63. | Project Gotham Racing 4 |
| 64. | Sonic the Hedgehog |
| 65. | Call Of Juarez |
| 66. | Def Jam: Icon |
| 67. | NBA Street: Home Court |
| 68. | SmackDown Vs Raw 2008 |
| 69. | The Godfather: The Game |
| 70. | Xbox Live Arcade Unplugged Volume 1 |
Phew, that's quite a few games. And, don't forget, you can influence the XBox 360 top games chart by adding titles to your SwapList and WishList.
Capcom's popular MegaMan (the Japanese call him Rockman) was first released all the way back in 1987 and is based on the video game character originally created by Keiji Inafune. Rather amazingly, this series of games is still going strong even now, 21 years later!
Whether you're already a fan of MegaMan or have just discovered the delights of battling Dr Wily, there are still lots of ways to play MegaMan games on a wide range of modern consoles. Check out our MegaMan game pages and see if anyone's willing to swap a MegaMan game with you:
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (GameCube)
Mega Man Legends (PS1)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (PS2)
Mega Man Anniversary Collection (XBox)
Mega Man Powered Up (PSP)
The storyline features MegaMan's battles to thwart Dr. Albert W. Wily - who is intent on world domination. As MegaMan, you've been cobbled together from a lowly lab assistant robot by Dr. Thomas Light to stop Wily.
All the MegaMan games feature the same style of gameplay - MegaMan must battle through a series of stages, defeating the Robot Master at the end of each stage. Rather handily, you then gain the Robot Master's unique weapon, which you can use throughout the rest of the game. You've got immense speed and strength, as well as a handy arm cannon to blast away with.
The earlier games were amongst the hardest too - although there was a neat pause trick/glitch you could use to help defeat the Robot Masters. While this glitch has been left in some versions of the game, others don't have it, so don't get too reliant on it.
So, if you're up for a bit of old-style gaming action, you could do a lot worse than play MegaMan games - they're gaming classics.
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