Reliving Pac-man and Asteroids Glory Days Courtesy of The Free Video Games Project

This week we take the blog back. Way back to the classic era--the Golden Age of gaming if you will. The cost to spend hours in a classic arcade playing the likes of Galaga, Frogger, or Pac-Man was one quarter or fifty cents if you were really the ultimate gamer. And a few quarters more if you were on novice level.

The Free Video Games Project takes the spending out of the experience and brings the classic games that helped start it all back for free online.

The Free Video Games Project is a site that I stumbled upon recently. This is by no means a pretty site offering your favorite classics. But it does offers an online hub to play those games in your browser without the need for any massive downloads--legal or otherwise.

"The Free Video Games Project exists to bring you the very best Flash remakes of old classic video games in a full screen, no download format."

Fans can even send in flash versions of other popular games that they may have for consideration as part of the project. The only caveat being that they agree to not seek any profit, that the games exist purely for enjoyment and not to infringe on any existing copyright. But we gamers don't care about all of that dancing legalese do we?

So, how are the free video games?

Most of my time was wasted away reliving my Asteroids glory days. The game plays as smooth in your browser as it does on the old Atari 2600 or through retro game devices that plug and play via your TV. The starship is controlled by using the arrow keys and firing is handled by pressing down on the spacebar.

I also checked out Pac-Man and Space Invaders. Again, nothing new to see here, just the same classic gameplay many of us have grown to love over the years. I tried testing them on my Android phone but the experience was a disaster. So stick with the iPad, a laptop, or even a desktop if you happen to still be stuck in 1998. (I kid, I kid.)

The site also contains versions of Sonic the Hedgehog, Frogger, Simon, Solitaire and Mahjong. The last two you probably already have on your home computer, so I don't consider those relevant.

What do you think of this recent discovery? As I always say, you can't beat free. Have you guys found any cool sites offering free gaming during your many hours online? Discuss below and share with the rest of us.

As always you can follow the ins and outs of my adventures in testing the best free video game resources on the web via Twitter @SavingsGCapes.