I'm a mature-age guy in my 50's and recently a friend sent me a link to a website packed full of online games that can be played free of charge and I have to say that I am hooked. I remember before the Internet when I used to play solitaire and pinball locally on my computer and later this grew into me playing chess for hours at a time - but all these games cost me real money. I still laugh at it now, but that chess game 20 years ago always cheated when I put the game player under serious challenge of it losing to me. Even though at first I thought I must have imagined it, after a few near wins against this chess game it always did cheat.

The main point isn't that the chess games of the pre-Internet days cheat; rather it is that all games cost a lot of money especially if you choose to build up quite a collection of them. So to find a website with literally thousands of games to play and all of them being totally free of charge was a great find indeed.

I've just killed a few hours regaining my reflex speeds with pinball and at first I doubted that playing online could be as fast and responsive as playing a game that is loaded locally on my hard-drive, yet I am very impressed with the online version.

Now I am testing my hand at several of the real arcade online games I have found on the site and I notice that I can play 100 games before I even have to register my email address. Being a forex trader, often I sit at the charts with nothing to do for hours on end. Now I can play these games while keeping an eye open to a sudden price move with the currencies.