The 4 arcade games in After Dark Games are, as expected, nothing to write home about. Not everyone will be able to compete at the same level, of course, but they will at least be able to participate.
The games span a small range of genres including arcade, trivia, word games and puzzles, with the common factor between them being anybody - and we are talking absolutely anybody here - can play them. Although, oddly, one of the 11 games included in this package is Solitaire, albeit Berkeley Systems' own variation of it. In actuality, what we have here is a bunch of 'time-filler' games that are obvious alternatives to Microsoft's own procrastination-encouragers, Solitaire and Minesweeper. Well, guess what? After Dark Games - "it's not just a screen-saver anymore!" - is a collection of "challenging and addicting" games, many featuring the characters that screensaver freaks will have come to know and love by now from the After Dark series.
And hey, isn't that worth the $50-80 price tag that used to accompany them? Game time
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The After Dark series became known for being a leader in the field of the screensaver 'art,' producing many variety of fun and humorous modules, introducing original characters in often zany situations, and generally just being downright more amusing than a bunch of flying Windows logos (damn, I still see those things in my sleep. They are an endless distraction to the work you should be doing (always a good thing, no?). However, this doesn't mean screensavers are useless - on the contrary, they can not only be wonderfully stimulating entertainment, but they also serve an even greater purpose. Unless you have a monitor that's manufacturing date reaches back into the mid-eighties (and if it's still functioning, then congratulations because you own a freak of technology), it's unlikely that your screen would ever have images burnt into the glass without serious, intentional abuse. Well, this is, in fact, complete nonsense. Those damages most likely amounting to a haunting image of your Windows desktop permanently embedded into your display. A common nineties computing myth is that if you don't protect your monitor with a screensaver that activates after 30 seconds of no computer usage, then you will suffer irreparable damages to your screen.
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