Marple Library Games

Free Games Showcase: February 2025

Platformer (noun): “a video game where the play is primarily focused on moving past obstacles in real time with one's avatar by using various abilities (such as jumping and climbing) and items (such as weapons)” (M erriam-Webster ) The...

Free Games Showcase: March 2025

Keyboard controls are as old as computer games themselves, but a few games put the whole keyboard to work. Borrowing characters licensed from Nintendo, Interplay Productions brought edutainment to the Mushroom Kingdom with Mario Teaches Typ...

Free Games Showcase: April 2025

Working in a library, you see how much interest there is in the culinary arts. A quick subject search of the word “cooking” reveals over 1300 titles in the Marple Library alone. Cookbooks are routinely among the most widely-circulated i...

Free Games Showcase: May 2025

The history of driving in games is long and varied. Racing games have been a popular genre for decades, but there isn't one single way to make one. We've had the realism of Gran Turismo , the over-the-top carnage of Burnout , and the futuri...