If you attended our October 12 panel on the birth of Pong and video games (and if you couldn't make it, be sure to check out the full audio!), you may remember our panelists recommending some games. Here are more suggestions from Mary Flanagan and Randall Nichols. Randy provides more details on his blog. Most of these games are available online or can be downloaded for free.

From Mary Flanagan:
Tiltfactor's Online Layoff Game
Tiltfactor's Profit Seed Game
Auditorium
Robot Unicorn Attack (have to wait for an intro ad)
The Path (downloadable but not free)

From Randy Nichols:
Games and platforms
"Rock Band"
Jason Rohrer's "Passage"
The PlayStation 3 game "Heavy Rain"
"Mirror's Edge"
"SimCity"
"The Sims"
"Minecraft"
"McDonald's the Game"
"Game Dev Story" application
"Real Lives"
"Portal 2″
Steam platform
"Flower"
"Shadow of the Colossus"

Useful video game industry links
The Entertainment Software Association
The International Game Developers Association
The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment
Gamasutra
MCV.com
VGChartz.com

For more details on these industry links, see Randy's blog. And on a side note, does SimCity have anything to do with a Republican presidential candidate's tax plan?

Thanks again to Mary and Randy and to all of our panelists and audience members this season!