With the completion of my NixOS AI PC, I found (for a change) that having a easy to maintain PC engendered thoughts of gaming. I’m a old gamer from way back, from my first video game of pong played from a small box thru my tv back in the 80’s, to all the FPS of Doom, Quake, Rott, UrbanTerror, etc and even maintaining online Linux game servers for small groups of friends.
Which is interesting as I haven’t played a single video game in at least the last 15 years by my reckoning.
So I installed Reversi
However after a week I found this one is too easy to beat and started looking for more games …
Next was Warzone 2100 which I had last played 15 years ago and quite enjoyed
At that point I discovered that NixOS has 1000 games ready to install!
There are some real gems such as Graphwar where one can play online or v/s the computer and destroys the opponent by calculating the trajectory of shots using various equations !
For the children we have Koules which one can play on a slow old PC with 4 kids using only one keyboard and a mouse, yet everyone including dad has full control over their player. In an age of single dads, weekend access often leads to bored kids and broke dads desperate for a source of entertainment. Koules is that source. It once kept my kids enthralled (shrieking with laughter) all weekend until we all destroyed ‘the great applepolisher’. Koules will never be available for Windows said the author ‘Jan Hubrika’ back in the day.
Then I stumbled across beyond-all-reason and although at 72 years of age and normally in bed by 8pm in the middle of a cold winter, I crashed into bed at midnight after playing 2 games!
Wow, I had no idea games had advanced so much. Check out the video below. This is a free game, runs on Linux and is easily installed in NixOS just by adding its name to the ‘config file’.
And I’ve only reviewed 850 of the 997 games so far!
