I remember the first time I had my home pagina computer hooked up to the Internet back in '97. One of the first things I typed into the zoek engine was 'free games', and I was delighted to see a long lijst of results.

In reality, though, there were a lot less games available in those days, mainly written in Javascript applets.

With the onset of Flash as a game development platform, the Internet games genre really exploded. meer recently, Adsense and MochiAds have made it possible for game developers (who may be a 13-year-old in his bedroom) to cash in on a genre that was once done for fun.

The result...