Well there are plenty of websites online where you can find games to play: AddictingGames, Newgrounds, Armor Games. My personal favorite free game website is Kongregate.
Kongregate has thousands of games from all kinds of genres. Shooters, tower defense, platforming; you name it they probably have it. And with advancements in technology, these simple Flash-based games can be almost as long as a full size game. You can log hours upon hours in something like Kingdom Rush or Doodle God trying to beat them.
The reason I probably prefer Kongregate to other gaming websites would be the badges. For most of the popular games, Kongregate has set certain goals that if you can pull off, they give you a badge and some points. Now, you can't do anything with these points, so it's all kind of useless, but it's a matter of pride and accomplishment. Points are given based on difficult of the badge, and when they label something as Impossible, it almost is.
To get the Impossible badge in the top-down shooter Frantic, you must survive all 10 levels without being hit. The above picture shows level 2, meaning that's only 1/5 of the difficulty level. This type of game is known as "Bullet Hell"
You can, however, make these points worth a little something if you have a Gamestop Powerup Rewards Account. Kongregate has partnered with Gamestop and has started a daily badge challenge, allowing players to gain both Kongregate points and Gamestop Powerup Points for 1 specific badge a day. Of course, everything in the Powerup Rewards Catalog costs thousands of points, and you only get about 15 per badge on Kongregate, but it you do bored gaming a lot, it can add up.
So next time you have some time to waste, check out Kongregate and throw your life away to Bloon's Tower Defense or something.
Monkeys throw darts at balloons. It sounds ridiculous, I know, but I've wasted hours on it.
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