Debian Games arcade packages

The goal of the game is to collect all the gold bullions found in each level and avoid crashing into any of the enemies. As you progress through the levels you will encounter harder enemies, and you can gain a short period of invincibility if you gather gold at high speeds.

A7Xpg is another gem among many by Kenta Cho.

A scrolling, platform-jumping, key-collecting, ancient pyramid exploring game, vaguely in the style of similar games for the Commodore+4. The game is intended to show young people all the cool games they missed.

Airstrike is a 2d dogfight game in the tradition of the Intellivision and Amiga games 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. It features a robust physics engine and several other extensions of the original games. Playable by 1 or 2 persons.

Your mission is simple: Stop the invasion of the aliens and blast them!

Alien Blaster is a classic 2D shoot 'em up featuring lots of different weapons, special items, aliens to blast and a big bad boss.

It supports both a single player mode and a cooperative two player mode for two persons playing on one computer.

This is a multiplayer flying saucer racing game, made for Assembly 2006 game competition. It is a great and fun game for the family with up to four players. Coming with astonishing 3d rendered graphics.

The rules are simple: you ride a light cycle (a kind of motorbike that can only turn 90 degrees at a time, leaves a wall behind and cannot be stopped) and have to avoid running into walls while at the same time you have to try to get your opponent to run into them.

The idea is based on the Disney movie from 1982 called "Tron". If you ever wanted to take a try at one of those speed demons features in the movie, this is your chance.

Armagetron Advanced can be played against AI opponents, against other humans over the network, or a mixture of both.

Young Sigmund has a few problems. To help him resolve his mental instability you must enter the surreal world of his inner mind and shut down the malfunctioning brain cells. Guide Sigmund through the Ego, Psyche and Id zones - each one 300 times the size of the screen - to locate the eight renegade neurons, entering them one by one to find and trigger their self-destruct system.

This is a port of Digital Psychosis' 1994 game for the Acorn Archimedes.

Atomic tanks is a multi-player game in which you attempt to destroy other tanks while trying to protect your own. You earn money for destroying other tanks; with this money you can buy upgrades and better weapons for your tank.

This game is similar Scorched Earth or the Worms series of games.

Two castles, separated by a mountain, try to defeat each other with their cannonballs, either by killing the opponent's king or by weakening the opponent enough so that the king capitulates.

Ballerburg was originally written 1987 by Eckhard Kruse, for the Atari ST machines (which were brand new computers at that point in time). Over 25 years later, here's finally the adaption of the original source code to modern operating systems.

Barrage is a rather destructive action game that puts you on a shooting range with the objective to hit as many dummy targets as possible within 3 minutes. You control a gun which may either fire small or large grenades at dummy soldiers, jeeps and tanks. The gameplay is simple but it is not that easy to get high scores.

Bloboats is an arcade-like boat racing game in the hybrid spirit of Mario-like platform jumpers and elasto mania / xmoto.

The objective of Bloboats is to reach MS Enterprise as fast as possible to save it from the hands of the terrible Tentacle Monsters of an Unknown Master and in the same time beat your friend and laugh at his or her puny time.

The journey starts from a place called Tutorial, somewhere in the United States, and somehow the player ends up in the famous HV-Arena of Helsinki. During the trip a number of MS Enterprises are saved, luckily, from the hands of the terrible Tentacle Monsters of an Unknown Master, who actually is your dad. Or then ain't. :-)

BomberClone is a free Bomberman-like game for Linux and Windows. The rules of the game are simple: run through a level and bomb other players. It features powerups that give you more strength, make you walk faster through the level, or let you drop more bombs.

BomberClone can be played in multi-player mode via IPv4 or IPv6 networks or in single-player mode against the local AI.

You play Bouncy the Hungry Rabbit. You're in a garden with yummy veggies and a farmer who's not keen on you eating them. You can hide (and move around) under the ground.

Bouncy was written so it could be enjoyed by the author's daughter, who was about to turn 3, and by older gamers. Hence it's not a violent game and "easy" is really, really easy, and "hard" is challenging.

Briquolo is a Breakout like game which takes place on a colourful 3d playing field. It features 23 fancy levels with moving bricks, great explosions and sounds, different camera perspectives and an editor to create your own custom levels.

Briquolo uses OpenGL to offer modern graphical effects and is very portable thanks to the SDL library.

Battle Tanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. It has original cartoon-like graphics and cool music, is fun and dynamic and has death-match and cooperative network modes.

"Bug Squish" is an action game not unlike light gun arcade games, but played with a mouse. It's loosely based on a MacOS game whose name Bill can't recall.

Bugs are trying to suck blood out of your arm! Squish them with your fly swatter before you run out of blood.

In BumpRacer, 1 player or 2 players (team or competitive) choose among 4 vehicles and race through a multi-level maze. The players must acquire bonuses and avoid traps and enemy fire in a race against the clock. For more info, see the homepage at http://www.linux-games.com/bumprace/

This is a clone of the classic game "BurgerTime". In it, you play the part of a chef who must create burgers by stepping repeatedly on the ingredients until they fall into place. And to make things more complicated, you also must avoid evil animate food items while performing this task, with nothing but your trusty pepper shaker to protect you.

A game similar to 'Super Pang'. You are attacked by little green balls which are bouncing around and which you have to destroy with your knife. Your knife however is limited to being thrown upwards, thus you have to get under the balls to destroy them. Even worse, if you destroy a large ball, it doesn't just vanish, but breaks apart into two smaller balls. Levels consist of little platforms connected by ladders, so you can go up and down or find cover if needed.

Chromium is a top down fast paced high action scrolling space shooter.

In this game you are the captain of the cargo ship Chromium B.S.U. and are responsible for delivering supplies to the troops on the front line. Your ship has a small fleet of robotic fighters which you control from the relative safety of the Chromium vessel.

"Circus Linux!" is based on the Atari 2600 game "Circus Atari" by Atari, released in 1980. Gameplay is similar to "Breakout" and "Arkanoid" - you slide a device left and right to bounce objects into the air which destroy a wall.

criticalmass, aka critter, is a shoot-'em-up in the style of Galaxian with very colorful and smooth graphics (provided that you have 3d acceleration)

Note: criticalmass uses OpenGL, and will probably not run well if you do not have a 3d accelerator which is supported by X.

CuteMaze is a simple, top-down game in which mazes are randomly generated using one of a choice of several different algorithms. You move the character through the maze while hunting for targets (cheese, by default) - the game is won once all of these targets have been picked up.

dangen is a shoot 'em up game that attach importance to accuracy of shooting. With the combination of the cursor key and the shot button, you can shoot at your side or even at your back. Get the bonus point by hitting the enemy without a miss. You can choose stages of different difficulty.

This aims to be an old school arcade game with low resolution graphics, top-down scrolling action, energy based gameplay, and different weapons with several levels of power.

Epiphany is a multi-platform clone of Boulder Dash. In this game, the player must collect all the valuable minerals scattered in each level, while avoiding being hit by a falling boulder or, worse, by a bomb.

Boulder Dash was one of the best games ever made for the Commodore 64.

Excellent Bifurcation is a vertical shooter in which you have two sides available to play on. Its graphics try to mimic the colours, sounds and feeling of the 8-bit games.

In the game, you drive two ships at the same time, on two sides of the screen. The game play is very unique and fun. It might be quite a brain bender anyway.

Excellent Bifurcation was Linley Henzel's entry in the AutoFire 2007 Shooter Competition, and finished in 2nd place.

You must clear a spaceship from all droids. To achieve this your device will need to take control of more powerful droids, more able to confront the most powerful ones. But you'll also need to manage your energy, as you won't be able to control any droid for an indefinite time, and even your own device has a limited lifetime.

Note that this package is different from the freedroidrpg game, developed by the same team, and also available in Debian.

Freegish is a 2D platform game, where the player maneuvers character of a ball of tar. Character may become sticky, slick, heavy and can jump.

The game contains only first seven levels of the single player campaign and few multiplayer levels for mini games like sumo or football.

Freegish is based on open sourced code of the famous game called Gish with added free art assets.

"Those Funny Funguloids!" is actually a nice little piece of entertainment. You collect mushrooms, bring them back to your home base and profit! That's the basic idea in a nutshell. It has smooth, appealing 3d graphics and nice atmospheric sound effects. Go ahead and try it out - it has sounds too!

Trip on the Funny Boat is a side scrolling arcade shooter game on a steamboat equipped with a cannon and the ability to jump. The player will need to take advantage of waves to defeat the enemies and dodge hazards.

The game is basically a vertical shooter with music elements. The enemies, in fact, are kind of musical. Linley has added a simple background tune, that gets mixed with the diffetent notes played when enemies shoot.

Part of what stands out about Garden of Coloured Lights are its graphics, that even though are kept quite simple, are also carefully taken care of. Every ship still has moving parts and mechanisms that open and close, and every level is different, even though all of them share a common theme.

Your ship comes equipped with 3 options, each with its own unique weapon. There are a few pre-designed schemes to play with, or you can create your own combination of weapons.

Garden of Coloured Lights was Linley Henzel's entry for the SHMUP-DEV Competition 2k7 Round 2.

GAV stands for GPL Arcade Volleyball, and is an SDL remake of the old DOS game Arcade Volleyball. It includes multiplayer, networking, and themeable graphics support.

More information, as well as additional themes, can be found at http://gav.sourceforge.net.

Geki 2 is a vertical shoot'em-up game similar to classic arcade games such as Xenon, Target Renegade or Gunhed. It features six levels and two different weapons.

Geki 3 is a horizontal shoot'em-up game similar to classic arcade games such as R-Type or Zero "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" Wing. It features four levels and various weapons.

glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective. 3D acceleration is recommended.

Gravitation is a short, autobiographical pixelated art game by Jason Rohrer. It is a followup to his previous game, "Passage". It can be explored in approximately 8 minutes. If in doubt, please keep playing. If you still don't understand the game, please read the game creators statement on the website and the experiences of other people linked from the website.

Gravity Wars is inspired by Gravity Force, one of the greatest games for the Amiga. This version is a little different, with a much higher resolution, and better graphics.

The aim of the game is to guide a spaceship using only thrust and orientation to the exit, fighting against gravity and inertia. It includes some new features like water, exploding doors, bonus objects, fans (ie. wind), and some other special effects like exploding bullets and splashing water.

Gravity Wars is no longer maintained upstream and this Debian package should be considered the current upstream version.

Gunroar is an excellent shooter in which the game environment turns to be the sea and your spaceship an armed boat. The player moves around in a level generated randomly, and containing enemy islands, turrets and enemy boats) and that never ends. Each enemy killed increments your points according to the time it took you to destroy it and its size.

Gunroar is another gem among many by Kenta Cho.

Help Hannah's Horse is like a cross between Pacman and the Dizzy game "Fastfood". The objective is to move Hannah to collect the pills around the maze while avoiding the ghosts. Moving around the maze there are also carrots which Hannah must also collect in order to complete the level.

Each player controls a team of several hedgehogs. During the course of the game, players take turns with one of their hedgehogs. They then use whatever tools and weapons are available to attack and kill the opponents' hedgehogs, thereby winning the game. Hedgehogs may move around the terrain in a variety of ways, normally by walking and jumping but also by using particular tools such as the "Rope" or "Parachute", to move to otherwise inaccessible areas. Each turn is time-limited to ensure that players do not hold up the game with excessive thinking or moving.

A large variety of tools and weapons are available for players during the game: Grenade, Cluster Bomb, Bazooka, UFO, Homing Bee, Shotgun, Desert Eagle, Fire Punch, Baseball Bat, Dynamite, Mine, Rope, Pneumatic pick, Parachute. Most weapons, when used, cause explosions that deform the terrain, removing circular chunks. The landscape is an island floating on a body of water, or a restricted cave with water at the bottom. A hedgehog dies when it enters the water (either by falling off the island, or through a hole in the bottom of it), it is thrown off either side of the arena or when its health is reduced, typically from contact with explosions, to zero (the damage dealt to the attacked hedgehog or hedgehogs after a player's or CPU turn is shown only when all movement on the battlefield has ceased).

Heroes is similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but includes many graphical improvements and new game features. In it, you must maneuver a small vehicle around a world and collect powerups while avoiding obstacles, your opponents' trails, and even your own trail.

Several styles of play are available, including "get-all-the-bonuses", deathmatch, and "squish-the-pedestrians". All game styles can be played in both single-player and two-player (split-screen) modes.

You should install the heroes-sound-effects package if you want sound effects, and the heroes-sound-tracks package if you want background music in the game.

So, uh, there's a bunch of penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. You have been selected to catch them so they can be shipped to Finland, where they are essential to a secret plot for world domination.

In order to trap the penguins, you'll need to break the iceberg into small chunks. (They're afraid of water, for no apparent reason. Ah well. "The Matrix" had more plot holes than this, and it still was a hit.) You do this by melting lines in the ice with Special High-Tech GNU Tools.

Once 80% or more of the iceberg is gone, the remaining chunks are small enough for shipping. Of course, if you manage to get rid of more than that, you'll save on postage, thus earning you exponential amounts of Geek Cred (a.k.a. "score").

Your ship is surrounded by two circles. You shoot in the direction of your mouse points, and you move if the mouse pointer is outside the inner circle.

The original name of the game is ES, which is pronounced ii-esu in Japanese.

You, as a bunny, have to jump on your opponents to make them explode. It's a true multiplayer game, you can't play this alone. It has network support.

This program is a unix port of the old DOS game by brainchilddesign.

You, as a bunny, have to jump on your opponents to make them explode. It's a true multiplayer game, you can't play this alone. It has network support.

This package contains fifteen extra levels.

Ketm is a hicolor/hiresolution classical game that has similarities with Raptor, Tyrian and Galaga. You are a spacepilot controlling your secret prototype ship. At regular interval's you get attacked by the bad guys. You have a mission to clean this sector from them (i.e. Kill Everything That Moves). Be sure to pick up some weapon and ship upgrades on the way.

Kobo Deluxe is a third person scrolling 2D shooter with a simple and responsive control system - which you'll need to tackle the tons of enemy ships that shoot at you, chase you, circle around you shooting, or even launch other ships at you, while you're trying to destroy the labyrinth shaped bases. There are 50 action packed levels with smoothly increasing difficulty, and different combinations of enemies that require different tactics to be dealt with successfully. It's loads of classical arcade style fun.

Komi is a space frog, and your aim in this single player arcade game is to feed him by capturing food with your giant tongue.

Avoid hitting the energy barriers and other nasties as you try to eat all the food.

Koules is a fast action arcade-style game. This version is compiled for X11. It has cool 256 color graphics, a multiplayer mode for up to 5 players, full sound and, of course, network support. Koules is an original idea. The first version of Koules was developed from scratch by Jan Hubicka in July 1995.

It supports multiplayer deathmatch and cooperative play.

krank is a game of dexterity, being somewhere between Breakout and billiard, where the aim of each level is to shove floating stones towards compatible static stones. You control a short chain of stones with your mouse to achieve that.

Kraptor is a classic shoot 'em up scroller game, where you must fight against tons of bad dudes. The game offers high speed action, with massive destruction and lots of fun. Kraptor features a powerful engine for 2D shooter scroller games.

After years of oppression, the slaved people of the world have raised against their masters. You, a mercenary pilot, have been contacted by the popular rebellion to fight against the forces of oppression. In the morning you jump into your cockpit and start up the engines. It's time to get airborne and start the attack. Get ready to defeat the scum hired by the masters. Fighting for freedom is the only way, you're on a mission, don't defraud us...

This is a simple and fun game, which involves using your mouse based guillotine to trap bouncing balls.

Trapping balls is achieved by firing your guillotine to split the playing area into little boxes, once enough of the screen has been covered you progress to the next level.

LBreakoutHD is a remaster of LBreakout2, a game similar to Breakout and xboing. The player controls a paddle at the bottom of the screen, and uses it to bounce one or more balls which destroy bricks; the paddle can also be used to collect various extras with positive or negative effects.

This package is a transitional package to upgrade LBreakout2 users to LBreakoutHD.

LBreakoutHD is a remaster of LBreakout2, a game similar to Breakout and xboing. The player controls a paddle at the bottom of the screen, and uses it to bounce one or more balls which destroy bricks; the paddle can also be used to collect various extras with positive or negative effects.

LBreakoutHD supports all LBreakout2 themes and level sets.

lierolibre is an old-school earthworm action game. It is a direct fork of Liero (OpenLiero).

Features:

• 2 worms, 40 weapons, great playability, two game modes: Kill'em All and Game of Tag, plus AI-players without true intelligence!
• Dat nostalgia
• Extensions via a hidden F1 menu
• Replays
• Game controller support
• Powerlevel palettes
• Ability to write game variables to plain text files
• Ability to load game variables from both EXE and plain text files
• New freely licensed audio
• Scripts to extract and repack graphics, sounds and levels

Luola is a 2D arcade game where you fly a small V shaped ship in different kinds of levels.

Luola's genre "Luolalentely", or cave-flying, has been very popular in Finland. Although cave-flying games are not originally from Finland, most new cave-flying games are.

"Mad Bomber" is a clone of Activision's classic Atari 2600 console game, "Kaboom!," by Larry Kaplan, with spruced-up graphics and sound effects, and music.

The Mad Bomber is loose in the city and he's dropping bombs everywhere! It's your job to catch them before they hit the ground and explode. Luckily, you have a set of trusty buckets to extinguish the bombs with.

This is a port of the high-resolution "asteroids" style arcade game written by Andrew Welch for the Macintosh.

M.A.R.S is a two-dimensional space shooter game with excellent 2D-graphics, a stunning amount of particles and shader support. It offers single- and multiplayer gameplay, many impressive weapons and specials and customizable ships.

In the year 3547 civilizations across the galaxy have settled their own planets, living in peace and harmony with its environment. But outside the placid habitats, the GREAT WAR is raging. As a famous fighter on your way to never ending honor and prosperity, you have to protect your planet from the imminent doom of your jealous neighbours!

A game like "Deflektor" (C 64) or "Mindbender" (Amiga). The goal is to work out how to get around obstacles to shoot energy containers with your beam, enabling the path to the next level to be opened. Included are many levels known from the games "Deflektor" and "Mindbender".

Some features:

   - stereo sound effects and music
   - music module support for SDL version (Unix/Win32)
   - fullscreen support for SDL version (Unix/Win32)
   - complete source code included under GNU GPL

Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!

Moonlander is a fun and enjoyable modern graphical version (with sound) of the classic moonlander game. The objective is to land your rocketship safely using a limited amount of fuel while fighting gravity.

This is a simple game in which the player moves their character to capture the white balls while avoiding the red ones.

This is an SDL2 version of the original 1999 version of Mr. Boom. The goal of the game is to bomb away your enemies and other players.

Mr. Rescue is an arcade styled 2d action game centered around evacuating civilians from burning buildings. The game features fast paced fire extinguishing action, intense boss battles, a catchy soundtrack and lots of throwing people around in pseudo-randomly generated buildings.

Mu-cade is another shoot-em-up game by Kenta Cho. In this game Kenta has introduced physics into his formula of hardcore shooting games. Similar in some ways to Asteroids and Nibbles, the playing area is a rectangular arena in which vessel-snakes have only one idea at the head: expelling the others into the vacuum. You incarnate one of them, and you'll quickly realize the subtlety of the goal: your tail lengthens as you destroy your enemies.