A Game With A Kitty is a great "short but sweet" 2D platformer that harks back to the good old days of SNES games.

Acter World is a fun freeware clone of Taito's classic Bubble Bobble.

Akuji the Demon is an excellent freeware platformer from Japan that puts many commercial titles to shame.

Alex the Allegator 4 is a fun platformer that harks back to the good old days of 8-bit Nintendo games.

Amanagi is an excellent horizontal shooter from Japan that boasts excellent 3D graphics and gameplay.

Yet another weirdly-named but addictive freeware gem from Japan, Anchor is a great coffee-break game that plays like a cross between my favorite underwater anime game Oden Todo Fish and...

One of the most impressive freeware shooters I played, Another Zero is also one of the most difficult games in the genre, freeware or not.

Ant Man is a fun futuristic platformer from Namil Soft, a Korean games developer that was later acquired by fellow Koreans Wizard Soft in 1999.

Antarctic Adventure is a very cute and funny game from Konami starring Pentarou the Penguin (who later appears in Konami's Parodius) who must journey across the Antarctic to deliver his...

ArmJoe is a great 2D one-on-one fighting game coded with ASCII's Fighter Maker program.