Jan 01 2009
All Time Favorite Casual Games for Gaming Addicts
With games like Diner Dash, Mystery case files and Bejeweled topping the charts year after year casual games are certainly making the gaming industry remake itself to please casual game addicts. From Microsoft’s Xbox to Nintendo’s Wii, all are striving hard to add new bite-sized titles. Social networking sites like Facebook are including a host of new casual games such as Scrabble and many others. The popularity of casual games is such that most customers pay more than 2 billion for such games.
All Time Best Casual Games
While the rage for casual games began with the initiation of Tetris in 1985, the craze for such low-cost games have increased in numbers. Here are some of the best all time casual games that prove to all-time favorites:
MapleStory:
Released in 2003, MapleStory ruled the gaming market in Asia, both in terms of gameplay and innovative cartoon-style concept. This MMORPG lets players take part in a fantasy land. There are various missions for gamers who collaborate with others in defeating cute monsters in real time. The simplicity and ease in gameplay are the core aspects of MapleStory. It is a 2D side-scrolling game with simple keyboard and mouse controls provided a welcome-change for both hard-core and casual gamers. The control keys can be easily customized with the drag-and-drop method. The simple gameplay and controls made this online casual game a monster hit in the Asian gaming market.
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Jewel Quest:
Sprinkling some innovative twists to a boring pattern-matching game is what Jewel Quest did in 2004. This classic matching game welcomes players to the expansive ancient ruins of the Mayan civilization. Apart from just pattern-matching, Jewel Quest contains complex and difficult puzzles full of cursed items, mysterious buried artifacts and cursed items. Players embark on a journey to open strange doors, rearrange sand tiles to turn it into gold and solve some Mayan mysteries.
Diner Dash:
You can ‘feel’ the popularity of Diner Dash when it sold more than 200 million copies world-wide. For me, Diner Dash is one of the best casual games of this decade. This restaurant-managerial game can certainly take your breath away, especially because of its uniqueness in gameplay. It also created a new superstar, Flo, whom every gamer, whether girl or boy, still adores.
