{"id":4385,"date":"2008-02-09T17:43:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/get-free-versions-of-popular-video-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:34:56","slug":"get-free-versions-of-popular-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-free-versions-of-popular-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Get free versions of popular video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/02\/halo-2-front-page2.jpg\" alt=\"Play games like Halo for free\" align=\"right\" \/>If you&#8217;re bored this weekend and the weather is wet and wild why not sit down and have a blast at a classic video game? Forget going out and buying a game for your console though, because some of the greatest titles new and old are available to download for free on your PC. Some are available as officially-licenced abandonware, while others are out-and-out copies, but I&#8217;ve put together a collection of top games that will keep you amused for the whole weekend. In fact, you&#8217;ll probably end up calling in sick the whole of next week too.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/guitar-zero.en.softonic.com\/\">Guitar Zero<\/a> &#8211; Yep, you read it right. The same riff-rocking game with a different name<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/halo-zero.en.softonic.com\/\">Halo Zero<\/a> &#8211; 2D version of the mighty Xbox classic<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/grand-theft-auto.en.softonic.com\/\">Grand Theft Audio<\/a> &#8211; Original version of the game that got me into car crime<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/super-mario-world-deluxe.en.softonic.com\/\">Super Mario World<\/a> &#8211; Recreate that beautiful day your got your SNES<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/neo-sonic-godspeed.en.softonic.com\">Neo-Sonic Godspeed<\/a> &#8211; Cool new twist on the blue racing hedgehog theme<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blockfall.en.softonic.com\/\">Blockfall<\/a> &#8211; Play Tetris as a Firefox plugin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zelda-classic.en.softonic.com\/\">Zelda Classic<\/a> &#8211; Exact replica of the NES game we could never put down<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/classic-doom-3.en.softonic.com\/\">Classic Doom 3<\/a> &#8211; Experience the gameplay of the original with updated graphics<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/half-life-2-revolt-the-decimation.en.softonic.com\/\">Half-Life 2: Revolt<\/a> &#8211; Multiplayer version of one of the all-time greats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re bored this weekend and the weather is wet and wild why not sit down and have a blast at a classic video game? Forget going out and buying a game for your console though, because some of the greatest titles new and old are available to download for free on your PC. Some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/get-free-versions-of-popular-video-games\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get free versions of popular video games&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336395,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions\/336395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}