Games for the Graphically disadvantaged...

[Tadhg]

Just a quick request for some (good) games that can be put on a laptop to pass away idle minutes between lectures?! Like frozenbobble etc. Nothing that requires a beefy laptop though

[matthew]

I am addicted to Nethack on my laptop. There's a nice graphic version in the repos called nethack-gnome that doesn't take up a lot of memory/processor power but looks nicer than the original text-mode version.

[etc]

Freeciv, play when you have time, save and resume.

[holiday]

nethack

[BoyOfDestiny]

Scummvm. There are 2 free games for it in the repos. Give em a go (scumm is the engine used by the old' lucas adventure games)

[Tadhg]

ooo, i like i like, but there has to be some more....

[Kyral]

Any of the Tetris clones....mm....Tetris...

Or PlanetPenguin Racer (formally TuxRacer)

[GIBson3]

all I can say Battle of Wesnoth (http://www.wesnoth.org) you can also find 1.0 in the Repo's ^_^ it's fun if you like TBS and Fantasy :D

[stoffe]

Fish Fillets (http://fillets.sourceforge.net/) maybe? Available as fillets-ng in the repos... (make sure to get the czech speech files too, even if you don't understand the language, it adds lots of flavour).

Edit: Oh, and of course Crack Attack (http://aluminumangel.org/attack/) too! You can probably make it run on any hardware by turning the settings down, it makes pretty heavy use of OpenGL effects in standard mode though.

[mcmuffy]

If you don't mind paying my vote goes for Uplink.
http://www.uplink.co.uk/

[Pathogenix]

Scorched Earth. There are two clones in the repo's - one 3D, one good old fashioned stylee.

[agro1986]

How about the ancient game go :)?

sudo apt-get install gnugo cgoban

After that run cgoban and choose "Go Modem" to fight the AI (or "New Game" to fight other mortals). Playing on a 9x9 board is fun and doesn't take much time :).

Tips:

When setting the AI, you can pass the argument --level=X. The default level is 10. The easiest level is 0.

For a great interactive tutorial on Go: http://playgo.to/interactive/index.html

Have fun!

[doclivingston]

Enigma, an Oxyd clone. Some levels are easy, some requre dexterity, some require logical thinking, some lateral thinking, and some are just (almost) impossible. It's in the repo, and the page is at http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/

And nethack as others have suggested

[quietglow]

for a change of flavor on nethack (I know, I know..why would anyone) I'm currently enjoying the heck out of slashem:

sudo apt-get install slashem-gtk

But really, why anything but nethack?

[Zyphrexi]

slashem is text mode, ugh. Crossfire is quite good, and can a local server can be run and edited per whim. I've managed to make a decent training facility and town.

[rolando2424]

I don't know if Nethack is good for a little break (as it requires much thinking), but if you like Rougelike games, give DoomRL (http://doom.chaosforge.org/) a try.

Or if you want an even quicker rougelike game try Berserk (http://berserk.chaosforge.org/) (from the same author of DoomRL.

Or Barrage (it's in the repositories :D)

[Mikey_MW]

Any of the emulators for older console systems (as in Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis) are pretty good and the would probably do the trick. Snes9X, Gens, etc. Just don't ask me where to find the roms :)

[hikaricore]

*sighs*

why are you people still digging up old threads? this post was abandoned over a year ago and there are many more recent posts that deal with the exact same topic.

P.S. lrn2readmysticky