securitybreach Posted September 17, 2022 Share Posted September 17, 2022 Quote A rundown of the biggest, most expansive and impressive games that you can run entirely in your Linux shell. The original UNIX operating system was created, in large part, to facilitate porting a video game to a different computer. And, without UNIX, we wouldn't have Linux, which means we owe the very existence of Linux to...video games. It's crazy, but it's true. With that in mind, and in celebration of all things shell/terminal/command line, I want to introduce some of the best video games that run entirely in a shell—no graphics, just ASCII jumping around the screen. And, when I say "best", I mean the very best—the terminal games that really stand out above the rest. Although these games may not be considered to have "modern fancy-pants graphics" (also known as MFPG—it's a technical term), they are fantastically fun. Some are big, sprawling adventures, and others are smaller time-wasters. Either way, none of them are terribly large (in terms of drive storage space), and they deserve a place on any Linux rig....... https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/best-command-line-only-video-games 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Never played any of those. The Cool-Retro-Term terminal is super neat an is dead cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 20, 2022 Author Share Posted September 20, 2022 Yeah, I dont know why they didnt include the most popular one of all time..Nethack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 On 9/20/2022 at 7:02 PM, securitybreach said: Yeah, I dont know why they didnt include the most popular one of all time..Nethack Great game. I have played either Falcon's Eye or Vultures Eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted January 7, 2023 Share Posted January 7, 2023 Get Lamp : a Text Adventure Documentary (2010) Neat documentary about text games from day one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted January 7, 2023 Author Share Posted January 7, 2023 1 hour ago, abarbarian said: Get Lamp : a Text Adventure Documentary (2010) Neat documentary about text games from day one. Neat, I may check it out. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wa4chq Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 (edited) This might not count cuz it wasn't run on the cli, but I always liked this simple game. xlander Edited January 8, 2023 by wa4chq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 CLI games? GAWD! What a masochistic hobby. I'll bet Gentoo users would like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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