CLI based games ?

[sujoy]

any good cli based games like nethack? yes this is probably a weird question but does anyone really play any CLI games around here ? maybe even something from the 80's that could run on intel

[az]

~$ apt-cache show bsdgames
Package: bsdgames
Priority: optional
Section: universe/games
Installed-Size: 2344
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 2.17-8
Replaces: bsdgames-nonfree (<< 2.14)
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.0), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.0), wamerican | wordlist
Conflicts: bsdgames-nonfree (<< 2.14)
Filename: pool/universe/b/bsdgames/bsdgames_2.17-8_i386.deb
Size: 934940
MD5sum: 31098af5b79f358b31b5592ad413565e
SHA1: 2bb8361987bb8330baf573bdd74540272384085a
SHA256: 249dfe2c5edca06e6d77f869ff13e908b1797d541cee65be94 27f8d7fc462a84
Description: a collection of classic textual unix games
This is a collection of some of the text-based games and amusements that have
been enjoyed for decades on unix systems.
.
Includes these programs: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar,
bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku,
hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt,
primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames,
worm, worms, wump, wtf
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu

[DirtDawg]

There are all kinds of great games for cli, especially roguelikes. Check out this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603292&highlight=empire) and this one (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=603292&highlight=empire) for some ideas. I think "Dungeon Crawl" is now called Stone Soup (http://crawl-ref.sourceforge.net) (great game), and you should check out Doom Roguelike (http://doom.chaosforge.org/).

I'm also a fan of Super Star Trek (http://almy.us/sst.html) and the fun, but complex, Empire(check the repositories).

There's lots more too. You just have to do a little scrounging around on the net. I could never figure the bsd games out, I think the controls are confusing, but for a good tetris game, check out vitetris (http://victornils.net/tetris/).

[mali2297]

Hua Rong Dao, an ancient Chinese puzzle game that is rather challenging. It's in the universe repo under the name hrd.

[GrueTamer]

Nethack is the best way to spend your CLI time gaming (useless pitch), but if you choose to do something a bit more constructive, TypeSpeed (http://tobias.eyedacor.org/typespeed/) would be something to look at.

[original_jamingrit]

http://www.adom.de/

My favourite rogue-like, ever. Very difficult, as well.