Look here for our 10 personal favorite commercial demos and shareware games.

Demos:

• Interstate 76 -- Cruise the highways of an alternate America in a muscle car with machine guns.
• Myth: The Fallen Lords -- A fantasy war game in which you take on the armies of darkness in real-time combat.
• Quake 2 -- In one of the most popular games in history, you're a space Marine with a big gun who shoots stuff.
• Starcraft -- Lead your human or alien forces into battle in this real-time sci-fi war game.
• Tomb Raider 2 -- Defeat the forces of evil as ace scientist/adventurer Lara Croft.

Shareware:

• File Mine's Tetris Pack -- A collection of five games based on the legendary Russian "falling puzzle."
• MAME: The Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator -- Makes your computer a perfect imitator of hundreds of different '80s arcade games.
• Solitaire Games 1.5 -- An enormous collection of solitaire-type card games.
• Tubular Worlds -- An old-fashioned, side-screen shoot-em-up.