Games on a thumbdrive?

snakes on a plane? no, games on a thumb drive.

at my work, the internet is fully blocked except for a few sites. weather and transport sites and such. nothing to keep me entertained on those 12 hour night shifts. i'm wondering if i could install firefox and a few games on a thumb drive and have it work on the old windows 2000 PC they have there. anyone know if it can be done? in answering this you could make a security guard very happy!

Why don't you find an old console emulator?

If I remember correctly there's tons of NES, Sega, SNES, N64, MAME emulators out there. 1000's of great games, all the way back to Atari 2600. They hardly take up any space.

now - don't ask me about legality. I don't know exactly where each emulator stands right now. That you'll have to figure out on your own.

You are looking for games that do not need to write to the registry.

In general, any game that uses Direct X is out.

We're talking mostly about indy games, doshinshi games.

Look for the thread on TH called "Fun with flash drives"; it's about a month old.

I've tried looking for it myself (via search function it comes up at June 11 2007). I tried the link but it didn't work because these forums are all screwed up now.

dude, honestly... with a little will, there's a ton of games you could prolly install on your thumb drive... I know that you could get diablo 1 to run on one... with a no cd hack. and like the other guy above me said, emulators for consoles. That could be several hundred hours of fun, specially if you have a usb controller that doesn't require installed drivers. yes, firefox does have a portable... there IS a website for all of that stuff, but i forget what it is, and is for supported apps only i believe. ummm... any flash games, you could prolly save the web page or just the flash location to your drive and see if that works... If you have a big enough flash drive, you could prolly install linux, and run a full version of ubuntu off it at work... ( wouldn't recommend this if there are any security systems dependent on the pc you're using... of if you think you'll get busted if it'd be difficult to get on the network ) but other than that, just plug your drive in, and install stuff to your flash and see if it works :-p

oh yeah, you could prolly pop some movies on it too... that's simple and makes for hours of entertainment... maybe e-books?

I heard of someone who has a bunch of the Street Fighter 2 emulated games on a USB stick that uses a certain program to run each game

I have jnes.exe on my jumpdrive along with about 300MB of nintendo games...zsnes.exe is a good one for super nintendo too...lots of flash games there that, on the outside, appear to be word docs or excel ss and they have a fairly small footprint...hope that helps

Civilisation 2 also ran without needing to update the registry. I got it working on the university machines before I bought my own PC. IIRC The music was all played off the CD though.

I used a 2GB thumdrive and put Halo 1 on it, all u hav to do is change the installation location to your Thumb drive

I actually did that for at my previous work site (no I didn't get fired for it, they just had the computers on lock down). I wanted to play some Zelda from one of the N64 emulators but didn't want to install anything onto my work computer. I put it all on the USB drive and it worked just fine.