Downloading some old Unix games

     I found some safe games to download and play in chapter 3 of the Conquer the Command Line Terminal Guide  from the official Raspberry Pi magazine, The MagPI.

     They are nothing fancy. Its a group of textual games that were played on Unix systems. You can find a list and some screen shots of different games at this link. All you need to do is type in:

sudo apt-get install bsdgames

and hit enter to download and install them. It wasn't stated clearly in the guide but all you have to do is type in the name of the game at the command prompt to play them. They don't all have instructions so, playing robots, as the guide suggested, was a bit mystifying to me. I just found a Wiki article on it but it still seems odd. Tetris, however, was still Tetris but lacked color.

 There are many more games you can get on the Raspbian OS at the terminal prompt. You can find the list here at Debian.org and also much more free software to run on the "Jessie" version of Raspbian. Not all of it is guaranteed to run but some of it is supposedly quite good. I'm new to all this Linux stuff so I can't vouch for it. If I do find some good stuff, I'll post about it. Have fun.