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rebelwrest:
I think my first download was Curt King's Press Your Luck, and I played that for hours and hours and hours.  Even though his website is long gone, you can go to the Wayback Machine and still download the game.  I did and it still works.

We all have been downloading these programs for over 25 years, so what have been some of your favorites?

By the way, here is the link to download Curt King's PYL: https://web.archive.org/web/20040325010319/http://crossbearer.com/

\Any of you remember Net Poker
\\The Joker's Wild that can only be accessed through the command center
\\\That text based Wheel of Fortune
\\\\Blockbusters that was played on 5X5 grid
\\\\\The many, many, many versions of Lingo

jcs290:
Curt’s PYL remains the GOAT to me. It’s pretty amazing that his version was faithful to the original, included sound effects and sound bites from the show, and it was better than any commercial release to date.

TimK2003:
I forget who put it together, but there was a computer version of Super Password that was pretty good, complete with sound bites from the show.  Even the puzzles were about as tough as the ones on the show. 

I also believe there was a way you could add your own puzzles to the mix as well.

Dbacksfan12:
Jay Lewis made a text-based version of TPiR that I spent a lot of time playing.

I agree that Curt’s game is the gold standard.

SamJ93:
Most of the FLASHgames recreations, especially Tic Tac Dough, Scrabble and Caesars Challenge were top-notch and highly addictive. They were still playable on archive.org for a while, but sadly no longer seem to be.

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