If you have a fondness for old arcade games and want to play them again, try the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME), a free emulator that lets you recreate the look and feel of old arcade game systems in software. While it's written for Windows, you can run this open source application under Linux.

It offers 6 new and improved tracks, a new game mode ('Follow the Leader'), new Grand Prix, new menu, some new music, and translations into German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and Swedish. The new tracks and game modes need to be unlocked: you have to fulfill a challenge in order to use them. If all challenges are done, a preview of the upcoming skidding support can be tested.

It's the ultimate version of TrackMania and it's designed to provide a maximum of content and gameplay possibilities to players. With this edition, you can enjoy racing with players around the world whether they own United Forever or the free game Nations Forever. TrackMania United Forever also allows you to play solo or online on the 7 incredible TrackMania environments.

As the name suggests, Battle Tanks is an arcade-style game, where you drive a tank, pick up weapons, and blast enemies. While this doesn't sound like a particularly original concept, it's the implementation that makes the game so much fun to play.

When edgy, risque, and retro all come together in a video game, smart people stay off the street. Off the streets of New Arcadia, circa 1922, that is, because that's where evil seems to thrive in Episode 1 of On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, a newly released game from Hothead Games and Penny Arcade.

Battle Tanks is a fun little arcade style combat game that takes an old cliched concept and makes it more fun. At first it seems like one of those cheap little popcap games you briefly entertain yourself with, but quickly grow bored of. Battle Tanks is not that kind of game. It got so addictive I had to literally force myself to put it down.

Word War vi is your basic side-scrolling shoot ‘em up ’80s style arcade game.

Nexuiz is a 3d first person shooter (FPS) done in the old Quake 1 style of gameplay where graphics weren't as important as was the raw fun of pure deathmatch play. That form of gameplay has been lost in many ways in the newer games of today with their greater concentration on graphics and less on gameplay.

So I’m back form vacation and what did I see Tux Racer at every Arcade in the Parks. That’s right an Arcade version of our favorite bird….and it sure was fun to play.