About Bill's Games

Where It All Began

The Bill's Games website originated as "Bill Kendrick's Online Games," a section of Bill Kendrick's personal website, started while he was attending school as a Computer Science major at Sonoma State University. Starting with a simple BlackJack game in mid-1995, the site eventually grew into what you see today, www.billsgames.com. We (re)opened our doors with the new look and feel and our own domain name on December 3, 1998 (a day earlier than planned).
Bill Kendrick currently works in Palo Alto, California, as a cell phone game developer, and also maintains a number of his other websites.

About The Games

Every game on this site is free, requires no registration to use, and should work with almost any web browser, including Lynx, AOLTM, WebTVTM, and Sega NetLinkTM. No JavaTM, JavaScriptTM, cookies or frames is used. The entire site has been tested with Netscape 4.04 for Linux and Windows95, Lynx 2.8 for Linux, and WebTV Viewer 1.1 for Windows95.

How Can The Games Be Free!?

This site is paid for out of pocket. Advertising sponsors (whose banner advertisements appear as you play the games) help ease the costs. Why are the games free? Because free is good! Quit asking questions and enjoy yourself!

Get Started Now!

Want to begin playing games? Simply click the name of the game on the left to begin! For brief descriptions of each game, go back to the home page.
Not interested, well, go look for some other stuff at:

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How Did We Make This Site?

This site has been made possible by the LINUX Operating System. Absolutely no MicroSoftTM or WindowsTM software was used. Both my personal PC in my home, and my web server are running Debian GNU/Linux and the Apache webserver software.
The games were programmed completely in the C language (not PERL) and compiled with GNU's "gcc" compiler, so they run fast. The powerful Emacs editor was used to create the HTML pages and write the C source code.
Graphics were created using The Gimp, an awesome free graphics tool for UNIX by Peter Mattis and Spencer Kimball.

Privacy and Content Ratings

Our site has been rated with RSAC (the "Recreational Software Advisory Council) and SafeSurf. Our Privacy Statement was created using Trust-E's Privacy Wizard.
In other words, these games are great for kids, and you don't have to worry about your private information getting out on the Internet!

Special Thanks

A warmhearted "THANK YOU!" goes out to "SKAT1", a WebTV guru and avid supporter and promoter of my site. I'm honored that such a great person took a liking to me and my site!
Scott Doty a guru at, and one of the owners of Sonic.net (our Internet Service Provider for the first 6 years) worked with us late into the night on our grand opening, trying to figure out the best way to ease traffic problems. He decided to dedicate an entire server to my site, a Cobalt RaQ Microserver, and helped me get it up and running smoothly. Thanks Scott!!!
Mike Simons, a Linux guru who helped make our webserver software run more efficiently, as well as pointing out some great programming methods and utilities which have helped speed up games like Solitaire and Wordscram.

Who's That Kid?

The "mascot" photo is yours truly, Bill Kendrick, roasting marshmallow's at my friend's house back in the mid-1980s. It's one of the less psychotic photos of me that I have scanned... =^)