console games

[cyborg_o]

Hi.

Does anyone remember playing HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy on their Tandy 1000HX back in the late 80's early 90's?

If so does anyone know where to find that for linux?

Maybe someone knows where there is a copy of Zork for linux? But I confess I have never played it.

Thanks.

[Mexican_Pirate]

I could have sworn that this topic was about console games, since that was the title.

[cyborg_o]

maybe I should have called it command line games. But I thought they were called console games. Games that had no pictures, just words. If I'm wrong I'm sorry.

[Mexican_Pirate]

It's okay, everyone makes mistakes. Especially me. And I can see where you're coming from, but I'm pretty sure those games are called text adventures.

[cyborg_o]

Cool. Thank you. Text Adventures. I'm a minimalist. I like the window manager LWM.
By the way, what then is a console game? Is that the Half-Life type?
Sorry for my ignorance. I'm not a gamer.

[Arkaein]

Usually when people say console nowadays they mean the physical kine, e.g. a PS2, Gamecube or XBox.

I think that console games is also a proper, but largely superseded term for what I would simply call "text games", because not all games are adventure-style.

To answer your original question, I doubt these games are available, expect possibly through emulation, because they were released before Linux was available (at least widely available), and because Linux hasn't had too many games released for it commercially.

There are some popular text games. The most popular is probably Nethack, a dungeon exploration game. I've mainly played it as Falcon's Eye, which is Nethack with a GUI. There are other games like this. I think some names are Moria and Angband, you can surely find others related to these. Also, if you have Synaptic for Debian software installation you can search the entire Games software section.

[Mexican_Pirate]

I used to play a MUD game called Merentha (www.merentha.net). It's an online telnet-based full-text MMORPG. You might be interested in it.

[cyborg_o]

cool. thank you much. i think over x-mas vacation i'll have something fun to do.

[Mexican_Pirate]

Me too. But in the form of America's Army.

[dawgie]

There is also the old bsd games collection.
# apt-get install bsdgames

[cyborg_o]

cool. cool.

what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.

[dawgie]

cool. cool.

what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.

Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd

[Mexican_Pirate]

cool. cool.

what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.

Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd

Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

[dawgie]

cool. cool.

what does does bsd mean? please excuse my stupidity.

Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd

Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Or, there is also the uncyclopedia:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/BSD

[Mexican_Pirate]

Berkeley Software Distribution. It is a Unix varient originally developed by the University of California.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd

Or, if you don't like it, check it out on Encyclopedia Dramatica.

Or, there is also the uncyclopedia:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/BSD

WIKI FIGHT!!!

[cyborg_o]

funny. lol.

thank you all i will read all of that material.

[cyborg_o]

so i read some of the material. very detailed in the history. though i know i won't remember much of the history.

next question then is does anybody run BSD too? what is it like? how different from debian linux is it?

thanks

[Mexican_Pirate]

I avoid operating systems that try to physically assault you as you try to install them.