by Chris Plante
These are the best games within games. Not the best old games ported into new games. Nor the best games from mini-game collections. No, these are the bonus time wasters that designers toiled with on the side (or interns were tossed as a bone). These are those Easter eggs nestled in in-game arcades. These are the games that made you forget you were playing a game within another game.
Solitaire's included on every PC because it's a simple, fun way to teach computer newbies the basic skills to use a mouse in a virtual space. Gnat Attack, aka Coffee Break, does the same for SNES gamers eager to create a 16-bit masterpiece in Mario Paint.
With the mouse, the player controls a gloved hand with a fly swatter and takes out pesky bugs before they sting you. The game's broken into three levels with 100 bugs and a boss for each.
But the fun doesn't stop. After you beat the third boss, the game loops back to the first level, meaning infinite play sessions!
