If someone were to suggest to me that I could acquire, by legal and legitimate means, games such as Psychonauts, Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition, Sensible Soccer, and Hitman 2 for free I would scoff at them. It would be a hearty and insulting scoff, very nearly the definition of scoff.

And then I would find out that all that mockery was for naught because this shit does exist, and for free! Now I've always been skeptical of Gamefly and Gametap but I logged onto Gametap just to see how much a month or two subscription would set me back. I was lured in by the promise of free games, certain I would be playing E.T. and Barbie's Ponytail Adventures. But alas, the standalone software was small (around 30 MB) and the free games were actually not terrible.



You can grab yourself some Metal Slug, Joust, Defender, Root Beer Tapper, Samurai Showdown, and Tomb Raider. It seems ideal to have a usb controller and I was fortunate to have my 360 wired controller waiting at the ready. So far it seems controls are completely remappable. Also, I got myself a Tap ID which I believe will allow me to play against others online, still for free.



Hopefully this entices some of you to take a look and get some free gaming action. It looks like all these games don't expire until December 31st so I mean that's like a year. I'm off to Hadouken my way to the top so let me know if this is news to you.