Free games on cereal boxes - Monopoly, Operation, Backyard Baseball, Scrabble, Candyland

[Johneverd]

I was at our local grocery store and saw these games attached to boxes of Cinnimon Toast Crunch, Golden Grahams and one other variety that I can't remember (all General Mills and on sale for $2.50 each). They are all full version games. AOL has a shameless plug on them, but that can be bypassed by clicking on the executable on the CD.

I made Virtual CDs of them on my harddrive (which are mounted to virtual CD drives), and put short-cuts on the desktop. Now that kids can just click the icons and start playing.

Monopoly is actually pretty good, even for adults. It has the original board, is done in Direct3D, and you can play computer opponents or even across a network. These are great for bored kids over the summer.

 

[rhacquer]

Good call--will be looking for the Monopoly game!

 

[yhelothar]

lol feel like a kid again getting cereals for the toy

 

[MrCoffee]

Free is good. Thanks!

 

[cogan]

I installed Candyland earlier today--it was well-done, I have to say. In addition to the normal, birds-eye view of the board, when you move you get a first-person animated view of walking the trail with pretty graphics (and you can turn off the animation if you want to play faster). Also, they added some extras, like you can "off-road" into each special location (e.g. Licorice Forest, Gumdrop Mountains) and do some little activities there--lots of little things to discover by clicking the mouse around inside each location.

If the other games are as nicely done, they are worth trying.

For Southern California residents, Ralphs has 15 ounce Cheerios (and a few other flavors I think) with these games at $2.50 each (actually 2 for $5 but you don't need to buy 2 to get the pricing).

Note: the games mention Windows 95/98 but that seems to be a minimum requirement--I installed Candyland on Windows XP and it seemed fine. The other minimum requirements are basic--Pentium 90 or 100 for the games.