Good light weight games! Nice on lappy or older system

[homerhomer]

Here are some nice games on the skinny side of things. Most of these also work well on laptops.

Tee Wars (like 2d quake)
http://teewars.com/
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=TeeWars

Cave Story (Nice NES style game)
http://gameflaws.com/cavestory/
http://drop.io/cave_story_deb


SimCity (Old school strat)
Open source version of the classic
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=Micropolis

Gridwars2 (who needs an xbox?)
http://www.getdeb.net/app.php?name=GridWars+2

Typhoon 2001 (Tempest 2000)
http://typhoon.kuto.de/index.html

Maelstrom ( Nice Asteroids like game)
apt-get install maelstrom

Mania Drive (Wacky 3d driving)
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/
http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?search_distro_id=5&keywords=mania

[Limpan]

You might want to add OpenTTD to the list. Event thou they recommend 500MHz+ and 128MB+. One will of course have to choose a smaller map or at least not a huge map. It will work very good with a reasonably new laptop.

[Praadur]

You could also add Kenta Cho's games to the list, that man's a visionary when it comes to shoot 'em ups.

And thankfully, all of his games have been ported to Linux (http://tumiki.sourceforge.net/) by some nice chap suspiciously named Evil Mr. Henry.

[ynnhoj]

xgalaga++ (http://marc.mongenet.ch/OSS/XGalaga/)! galaga is one of the best games ever :) you can find a deb for the latest version of xgalaga++ if you follow the link.

lbreakout2 (http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index.php?project=LBreakout2) is also very fun. arkanoid/breakout is, of course, also another classic. lbreakout2 is in the universe, so a sudo aptitude install lbreakout2 ought to get the job done.

[meborc]

i would add slingshot (http://getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=slingshot)

very cool game with some nice physics

[disturbedite]

abuse is another fun lightweight shooter game.