Many should have come across GameHippo at one point or another. Nearly a decade old, GameHippo (http://gamehippo.com/) is a freeware PC game download site with a huge index of games of all kinds, no shareware, no demos, just free games. At its prime, GameHippo was THE site to go to for updates on the latest freeware games, and GameHippo was the site that got many people into independent/free games (myself included).

Of course, two things usually happen to big sites that are really, really old. They either get bigger, or they become stagnant and die a slow death. Unfortunately, GameHippo seems to have taken the second route, as updates slowed and fewer and fewer new games showed up on the site (all the while newer, more hip sites popped up everywhere). In April 2007, GameHippo's founder and writer Boson (who, according to rumors, can't blow bubbles with bubblegum) sold the site after "losing interest in the scene."

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