After the time change, when the sun drops dead as soon as you get off work and the frost is forming by six, that's the time when you want classic DOS video games. Because there's only so many hours you can spend reading the Internet before you go all Jack Nicholson on the snowbound household.

Cartooners

You're not going to believe this, but Electronic Arts published this way back in 1989. Yes, the same people who brought you The Sims! This is a doodle toy, plain and simple. Click and drag backgrounds, props, actors, and speech balloons to create little frames, which you can animate and add music to and so on. There must be 100 Flash applications online these days that let you do the same thing in your browser, but in 1989 this made everyone who owned a 386 PC into the next Warner Brothers, as they, too, could now make up frames about dogs and their pet crows with crushes on cats, who had no idea, while a squirrel watched the whole scene with a mocking grin. Sadly, you could not make them get so wrapped up in cooking dinner that they peed blue puddles on the kitchen floor and then wept in shame. You'd have to wait for the Sims for that. Get it here, you wascally wabbit.

Jeopardy

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