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What are games to play from a Linux terminal?

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Who never procrastinated and played games instead of writing a paper, finishing a report, or looking after the kids? Absolutely no one. But when Linux users procrastinate, they procrastinate in style: while playing from the terminal! We tend to forget, but at first a graphical interface was not necessary for a good game. And thanks to open-source and the community, many arcade and other good games were ported to be played from within a terminal, without an X server running. It would be impossible to list them all, but let me present ten of these games that particularly appealed to me personally.

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Comments (3)

gus3 ·
Makes Hunt the Wumpus look like doctoral-thesis work.
mbaehrlxer ·
eh, please elaborate. i remember hunt the wumpus as one of the first games someone made playable on the web in the early 90s

greetings, eMBee.
JaseP ·
I remember playing it in the 1970s, on a VAX machine via an ADM-3a terminal connected with an acoustic coupler modem (running at a miraculous 300 baud)... Yep, those were the days...

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