Good news for all you Cash Strapped Gamers out there Midway's once full price 2005 FPS shooter Area 51 is now totally free to everyone. Area 51 was released on multiple platforms during its release, PS2, Xbox and Windows PC's and it was a remake of their 1995 light gun arcade game, obviously re-imagined for the 2005 FPS shooter crowd

Amateur Surgeon is a free browser game on adultswim.com where they have a ton of games. Have you ever dreamed of being a surgeon? But your actually a pizza delivery boy? Then Amateur Surgeon is the game for you

The Underside is a cool exploration based action platormer in it's creators own words. Although it's not a complete game currently that doesn't mean you shouldn't check it out! The Underside is the creation of Arthur Lee with some help on the music front by J Michael Brown and some level design help from David Walton. In The Underside you play a little character called Ip who stars off in Overside City and you end up quickly getting robbed in the street

Cosmic Prison Commando is a PC retro game demo by Carnivac and is reminiscent of games like Switchblade and Turrican. In fact i think i read that the music may be taken from Switchblade but don't quote me on that i have a bad habit of skim reading pretty quickly. Either way Cosmic Prison Commando is pretty cool and has some tasty graphics done in the Amstrad CPC Mode 0 for retro goodness

Little Wheel is a pretty amazing online flash game created by One Click Dog, if you are a fan of puzzle or adventure games then this one is definitely for you. Little Wheel is one of the better online flash games i've played in a while and of course being talked about here on Cash Strapped Gamer means its totally free

After the great news of Lucasarts revamping and bringing the original The Secret of Monkey Island up to date for 2009, we also have some more great news concerning everyones favorite pirate game franchise. Telltale Games are going to be bringing a new series of Monkey Island games to your PC, they are suitably going to be called the Tales of Monkey Island and stars all your favorite characters

An all time adventure classic The Secret of Monkey Island is all revamped and polished up for the modern day by the legendary Lucasarts. One of my all time favorite adventure games Monkey Island had just about everything going for it at the time, funny scripts, great graphics and the perfect balance of difficulty and reward. Well Lucasarts has been hard at work it seems on crafting a new updated version of the classic with brand new graphics and a revamped engine, along with full audio dialogue

Arcade game cabinets have that classic shape, topped off with the arcade joysticks able to withstand serious punishment, which were always perfect for games like Street Fighter 2, or Ghosts and Goblins. Well old arcade cabinets that are no longer is use do have other uses, you can rip the innards out and replace it with a MAME PC arcade game box, which gives the the power to have multiple games all in one box, rather than just be limited to your one JAMMA PCB board

AGS is a handy little tool for the adventure game fan who wants to create their own 2d adventure game in the style of Lucasarts and Sierra's classic games from the nineties. AGS or the Adventure Game Studio makes it easier to create adventure games for the non programmers out there by having a set of tools that allow you to skip some of the complex processes that go on behind the scenes. This doesn't mean it’s a walk in the park however, having some good computer knowledge and a basic grasp of programming or at least some of its concepts will help you along immensely

Sarien.net is one unique website owned and run by Martin Kool who is obviously a fan of the adventure game genre and that means he has good taste. If you take a trip over to sarien.net you’ll find some classic PC adventure games that you can play in your web browser. The bonus here though is that you play the game at the same time as everyone else, and you get to see them wandering round the game world trying to solve the puzzles