Top 10 Puppy Linux Games

Written by: Tolga BALCI • Edited by: J. F. Amprimoz
Updated Jul 6, 2011 • Related Guides: Puppy Linux | Video Game History | Linux

Puppy Linux is lightweight, small and has a lot of enhancements that make it as powerful as its big brothers. So hows about spending some time playing the games it offers? Inside are the top 10 lightweight games for Puppy Linux.

Shoot'em Up: Xsoldier

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Xsoldier is an old school vertical shoot-em up game in which you control a spaceship and shoot anything that you see. You collect Prisoners of War (POW) and other power-ups on your way and as you expect, there is a level boss at the end. Controls are the arrow keys for movement, with the left shift key for firing. Don't think the game as a piece of cake, you will begin to receive guided missiles after the second level. Xsoldier is just 173KB and available as source code.

Shoot'em Up: Xgalaga

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Retrogamers rejoice! Here is one of our first games in remake: Galaga. This number 1 shoot'em up game is not available as a .pet file but is 314KB in size in source code. For readers who do not know Galaga, I suggest taking a look at the computer games history, beginning with Space Invaders, followed by Galaxian, and finally Galaga.

Shoot'em Up: Zaxxon

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If you haven't played Zaxxon yet, you are again missing a big piece of computer gaming history. Released by Sega in 1982, Zaxxon was the first game in video game history to use 3-D from a third-person viewpoint. You command a spaceship through a castle shooting enemy missiles, turrets, planes and missiles. The objective is to complete the route through the castle without running out of fuel and you can refuel your ship by shooting fuel drums. The source download is 568KB.

Pinball: Linball

Pinballs are very good stress-relievers and here is a simple yet effective one for Linux. Linball, a pinball game for Puppy Linux with 3-D graphics is very fast and it is hard to keep up with the ball. If 3-D graphics are not your choice, then I suggest you keep away from this game. If not, go for it. The .pet is 2MB but requires LibSDL1.2-forDoom.pup.

Breakout

What a classic time waster! Destroy all the blocks with the bouncing ball and your paddle. Of course the graphics and physics are not the best but at least it takes you back to the times when you first started destroying bricks (Sinclair's Horizons anyone?).Total download is 15.98KB.

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Top 10 Puppy Linux Games

Shoot'em Up: Xsoldier

Shoot'em Up: Xgalaga

Shoot'em Up: Zaxxon

Pinball: Linball

Breakout

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