Obsidian

• Obsidian is governed by the Obsidian Artistic License.
• This is alpha code, it may crash. We take NO responsibility for it. Just like any other software producer. We have tried to make it run as nicely as possible, but it is using svgalib calls so if it does lock you could lose the console.
• The "obsidian" script that starts the client in an easy to use manner requires the "dialog" program to be installed, which comes with the standard RedHat distribution. If you can't find "dialog", inspect the contents of the "obsidian" script to see how to run the client from the command line (its easy!).
• We have included the source code to the TYPHOON database engine, by Thomas B. Pedersen, which is required to compile Obsidian.

Obsidian

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GNU Robbo

Adamant Armor Affection Adventure

9.- Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community.

Frozen Bubble is a full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 50 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects 

By Linux distributions:

• Mandriva: urpmi frozen-bubble
• Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install frozen-bubble
• Fedora Core: FC5 and up, in official Extras repository
• openSUSE: check here
• Gentoo: emerge sync && echo "games-arcade/frozen-bubble ~arch" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords && echo "media-libs/sdl-pango ~arch" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords && emerge frozen-bubble where ~arch is your architecture (x86 or amd64 etc)
  NB: USE-flag mikmod must be enabled in media-libs/sdl-mixer, ifi not the building process crashes and emerge asks the user to reemerge media-libs/sdl-mixer with proper use-flags.
• Slackware: read that

Unofficial latest Frozen-Bubble for old Mandriva:

• May work back until 2006 i586: frozen-bubble-2.2.0-0.1.20060mdk.i586.rpm [ Download ] - and probably libSDL_Pango1-0.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm [ Download ]

Ports:

• Mac OSX: at darwinports: http://frozenbubble2.darwinports.com/
• Frozen-Bubble ported to mobile phones.

Dependencies:

• Perl: the most popular scripting language out there
• SDL: the "standard" cross-platform multimedia C library
• SDL_image: an image file loading library for SDL
• SDL_mixer: a multi-channel audio mixer library for SDL
• sdlperl: glue between perl and SDL; FB2 has been validated with versions 1.20.0, 1.20.3, 2.1.2 and 2.1.3 (upcoming 2.2.1 will be using new API in version 2.5x)
• SDL_Pango: glue between Pango and SDL (SDL_Pango is currently unsupported and needs a small API patch to work with Frozen-Bubble)

Stable sourcecode:

• frozen-bubble-2.2.0.tar.bz2 (19.6 MB) - f7987201470d6755ed309762d348e0dd - sig (find paths to my key - download my public key)

Amphetamine is a cool Jump'n Run adventure game witch offers some unique visual effects Amphetamine was created by Jonas Spillmann.

I ported it from Windows to Linux. It will also work under some versions of Solaris on SPARC. The current version uses SDL.

The Unix/SDL version is maintained by Lukas Loehrer.

Controls:
left/right arrows move
left control fire
space bar jump
tab action (press buttons)
ESC menu
ALT+s screenshot
You can customize most controls by copying the file user.conf from the Amphetamine data directory to your ~/.amph directory. Modify it to suit your needs.

Gameplay:
Many aspect of the gameplay are controlled by the file amph.conf in the main Amphetamine directory. Of most interest are the options right at the beginning of the file that control the physics. If the game seems to slow/fast to you, changing some of those values may help.

DGA Mode:
Use the option --fullscreen to enable DGA fullscreen support. I cannot test this myself, because my X Server does not support it properly. I am grateful for any feedback regarding this option.

Requirements:
· Simple Direct Layer (SDL) v1.0 or newer

Installation:
1. Make sure SDL is installed correctly.
2. Have a look at the 'Makefile' and edit it where appropriate.
- 'USE_LIB_XPM=FALSE' if you don't have libXpm
3. Type 'make'. This should build the Amphetamine binary. You can safely ignore the numerous warnings. If the compilation fails, you are in in trouble. Try to tweak the 'Makefile'. You have to delete '-funroll-loops' if you are still using gcc 2.7.2.3
4. Become root and type 'make install'. This will install the binary to the directory specified in the makefile (default is '/usr/local/games/amph'). It will also create a symbolic link.
5. You have managed the difficult bit. Now, you have to install the data files required by the game. Get 'amphetamine-${VERSION}.tar.bz' an do:
- cd /usr/local/games
- bzip2 -cd ~/amphetamine-data-0.8.tar.bz | tar xv
(Note: the exact commands depend on your syste configuration)
6. type 'amph' in order to run the game and have fun!

Download.

amphetamine-0.8.10.tar.bz2

Screenshots.

Story.

The Game.

Purchase Information

Some years ago a friend of mine told me that the Linux based operating systems were like arthouse films Iranians unintelligible, boring and only for freaks.

Today, fortunately Iranian cinema has been open to the world and it is not uncommon to find people who have enjoyed the film by Samira Makhmalbaf for example.

What about the Linux?

As has also evolved, and therefore has gone from Iranian cinema pelicua class hero Steven Seagal.

I refer to the evidence: adventure games list ded essential open source Linux.

• Frozen Bubble

  Frozen Bubble is a full-featured, colorful animated penguin eyecandy, 50 levels of 1p game, hours and hours of 2p game, 3 professional quality 20-channels musics, 15 stereo sound effects, 7 unique graphical transition effects. Read morehot

• Penumbra: Overture Episode 1

  (commercial) Penumbra: Overture is a first person adventure game which focuses on story, immersion and puzzles. Instead of using violence to progress the player has to use his/her wits to guide Philip on his quest to unravel the past. Read more

• The Last Sorceror

  (commercial) The Last Sorceror is a fast-action game where you are the leader of a powerful Order of Sorcerors. Having defeated mankind's greatest enemy, the Demon Hordes, you retreat to Haven for a life of peaceful seclusion. hot

• 2Pong

  2Pong is pong clone. However, there is one visible difference from the regular pong - it is played with two balls instead of one.

• Airstrike

  Airstrike is a 2d dogfighting game being slowly developed by various people around the net. It is not yet playable although there is an old version which may be a bit fun to try.

• Ambassador of Pain

  Aop is a curses based arcade game for Linux/UNIX with only 64 lines of sourcecode.

• Amphetamine

  Amphetamine is a cool Jump'n Run game offering some unique visual effects.

• apricots

  apricots is a game where you fly a little plane around the screen and shoot things and drop bombs on enemy targets, and it's meant to be quick and fun.

• Ardentryst

  Ardentryst is an action/RPG sidescoller, focused not just on fighting, but on story, and character development. Strategy as well as reflexes will be needed to overcome the game.

• Armadillo

  Armadillo is an SDL game with an armadillo dude shootemup world.

• ASCIIQuarium

  Enjoy the mysteries of the sea from the safety of your own terminal!

• Atom Zombie Smasher

  (commercial) Atom Zombie Smasher is an action-packed game that plays out across a number of missions where your goal is to evacuate zombie-infested cities with a helicopter and groups of mercenaries. Read more

• Axis Runner

  Axis Runner is a 3D game inspired by the Apple II game "Lode Runner". It is a 3D lode-runner type game with a weird topology: if the runner bumps into a wall he climbs up (like the fighting scenes in "The Matrix" or "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") but if he reaches an edge he falls, in the current downwards direction. I.e. the direction of gravity changes.

• Babaliba

  Babaliba is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer game with fast movement and frenetic action.

• Balloon Chase

  In Balloon Chase you fly a hot air balloon and try to blow the other player out of the screen There is no AI in balloon chase (at least not yet), so you must have 2 players in order to play.

• battalion

  battalion was a game written in 1994 on a Silicon Graphics Indy in GL for the Indizone-3 contest. This version also ran in the CAVE(tm) as a virtual reality game at the EVE 4 art show in May 1995.

• Battlemech

  Battlemech is a game in which you pilot a mech from an overhead view, fighting other mechs with a variety of weapons in a struggle to gain points, capture the flag, or defend the base.

• Be The Wumpus

  Be The Wumpus is a game with no graphics and no text, only audio. You are a wumpus, a blind, cave-dwelling creature who subsists on meals of unlucky cave wanderers.

• Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer

  Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer is a 3rd person action shooter. With the apparent defeat of Galdov and the reclaiming of the Fire, Time, Space, and Reality Crystals, the Blobs' battle was only just beginning. Bob had rescued many Blobs and fought many battles, but now he had an ever bigger task ahead of him. The Blobs' homeworld is still littered with the alien forces and Bob once again makes it his task to lead the counter attack. But even without Galdov the aliens are still extremely well organised.

• Bobby

  (commercial) The game is simple: knock all of the green balls into the spirals, and then proceed to the next dimension. A lot of bouncing around and swearing "Just one more try" later, and you could save the world!

• Bomba, Bechere!

  Bomba, Bechere! pits you against terrorists who have penetrated a factory.

• Bug Squish

  In Bug Squish, you must defend your arm from an onslaught of blood-sucking insects. Use your fly-swatter to squish them before they suck you dry.

• cave9

  cave9 is a gravity cave-exploration game. It's a 3D version of the classic SF-Cave game. Your ship goes into a cave at constant forward speed, and you have to control two diagonal thrusts to keep it from hitting the walls. As the game progress, the cave will twist more and become more tight.

• Cavepilot

  Cavepilot is yet another cave flying game in the spirit of the old legendary Amiga games Turbo Raketti and Gravity Force.

• CAVEZ of PHEAR

  CAVEZ of PHEAR is a Boulder Dash / Digger like game for 80x25 consoles/terminals using ncurses.

• ChouXiang

  ChouXiang is an abstract shooting game.

• Curses Lines

  Curses Lines is a "Lines" game for the Unix terminal. It requires a certain terminal size, supports a mouse (curses or GPM), and works with various ncurses libraries.

• Cylindrix

  Cylindrix is a polygonal 3D action strategy shooter. It was released for DOS in 1995, and is now ported to Windows and Linux.

• Dangen

  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.

• Dangerous Snowboarding

  Run humans and bears with your snowboard down.

• Darwinia

  (commercial) The world of Darwinia is a virtual themepark, running inside a computer network built by a computer genius named Dr Sepulveda. Darwinia is populated by a sentient evolving life form called the Darwinians. They are the product of a decades worth of research into genetic algorithms. Read more

• Deathchase 3D

  Deathchase 3D is a remake of the Sinclair Spectrum game of the same name. It's a pseudo 3D game based on the light speeder sequence from "Return of the Jedi" where you have to shoot the bad guys' speeders

• Domino Blast

  Domino Blast is a physics-based driving/demolition game with a children's toys theme.

• Dr. Sanity

  Dr. Sanity is a fast-paced game where you must protect a brain from going insane for as long as possible. Armed with a special "sanity medication" and 5 über-pills, you must keep the insanity from reaching the brain in the center of the field.

• Dwarrendelf

  Dwarrendelf is a fairy tale game, The fairy realms of Uldramar are being invaded. You start your quest on the shore of the Twilight Waters.

• Dynamite Jack

  (commercial) Dynamite Jack is a stealth game featuring 28 levels, map editor, community sharing, and speedrun leaderboards.

• egg-O-shOOter

  (commercial) egg-O-shOOter is a 2D first person shooter where players collect points by shooting the eggs, but never shoot at creatures.

• enemy lines

  enemy lines is a simple abstract 2D shooter game. The goal is to shoot the lines coming from the right before they hit the left border.

• Epic Inventor

  Epic Inventor combines side-scrolling, RPG, and RTS elements into a random ball.

• Escape of the Unicorn

  Escape of the Unicorn is a 2D flying shooter game. The aim is to escape from the dangerous cave and save your life.

• Fight or Perish

  Fight or Perish is a Dandy-inspired dungeon crawling action game. It utilizes cellular automata to allow for literally hundreds or thousands of enemies on the map.

• FlatFrag

  FlatFrag is a multiplayer action shooter game. With its deathmatch fights it strives to be an entertaining arcade-style experience. The game is played from a bird's eye view and contains some 3D effects in order to make it not seem too flat. Currently only the game mode deathmatch is available, but others will probably be developed in the future.

• Free Fallin' Fred: Open His Chute Or He'll Be Dead

  Free Fallin' Fred is a very simple clicking game. You see the airplane going across the screen and after a while, Fred jumps. You click on Fred to open his chute. If you fail to open the chute in time, poor Fred will be dead. Don't let Fred die.

• Genuts Snake

  Genuts Snake is a remake of the popular classic snake game.

• Gillo

  Gillo is a two-player game in a virtual reality environment. Players are cars with a magnetic director, able to attract or reject a ball in order to throw it through a goal placed in the center of the playing field. It sounds easy... but remember that reality is fuzzy! Read more

• GLSFcave

  GLSFcave is a port of SunFlat's SFcave to UNIX/OpenGL. The objective of the game is to control a ribbon and avoid hitting walls.

• Gunroar

  Gunroar is an abstract shooter, created by Kenta Cho. Read more

• Hanihani Operation Sanctuary

  Hanihani Operation Sanctuary is a port and English adaptation of a Japanese visual novel game.

• I Have No Tomatoes

  I Have No Tomatoes features solid game play with beautiful OpenGL API driven isometric 3d graphics and nice music. It also includes a MOD player, and you can use your own MOD-type music in the game background.

• irrlamb

  irrlamb is a 3D game that probably involves a lot of physics and frustrating gameplay.

• Jet Ducks

  (commercial) Jet Ducks is a shoot at ducks game.

• Kairo

  (commercial) Kairo is an atmospheric 3D exploration and puzzle solving game. Developed by Richard Perrin the creator of the white chamber with music by Wounds (Bartosz Szturgiewicz).

• KInsectizid

  KInsectizid is a KDE-based 2D shooter. Your goal is to kill ugly insects.

• Leiserieselt

  Leiserieselt is a simple game where you throw snowballs at each other.

• Loose Cannon

  Loose Cannon is a single player 3D action & adventure game.

• Magic Maze

  Magic Maze is a simple and low-tech monster-bashing maze game. It was originally inspired by playing Gauntlet II on the Atari ST.

• Magnificent Gunbright

  Magnificent Gunbright is an abstract shooter; kind of a cross between Warning Forever and Tumiki Fighters. Your blob cloud is at once your defensive shield and your ammunition, and more blobs are always raining from the sky.

• MoagG

  Moagg combines several game types of other genres like races, search & rescue, seek & destroy et cetera into a 2D gravity game. You are pilot of a small space ship and have to navigate that ship through different levels. But beside the gravity that drags you down there are other obstacles like laser ports, magnets, black holes, cannons, rockets and grinders you have to master.

• Molecule Man

  Molecule Man is a port of a 3D isometric maze game for the ZX Spectrum that was released in 1986.

• Monkey Bubble

  Monkey Bubble is a game in which you must explode all bubbles in the game area. You explode bubbles by putting at least 3 of the same colour in contact. Any bubble that is connected to the top or the sides of the game area by bubbles you just exploded falls too.

• Monster Masher

  Monster Masher is for the Gnome desktop environment. The basic idea is that you, as levitation worker gnome, has to clean the caves for monsters that want to roll over you. You do the cleaning by mashing the monsters with stone blocks.

• Moon-Buggy

  Moon-Buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon's surface.

• Noiz2sa

  Noiz2sa is a shootem up game set in an abstract world. 10 stages plus endless mode.

• OpenClonk

  OpenClonk is a free multiplayer action skill game where you control clonks, small but witty and nimble humanoid beings. The game is mainly about mining, settling and fast-paced melees. Read more

• OpenOrbiter

  OpenOrbiter is a multiplayer game for up to 8 players on one computer. Each player controls an Orbiter which is affected by gravity and inertia. The goal is to kick all other Orbiters out of the map.

• Outgun

  Outgun is a simple multiplayer capture the flag game in 2D top-view, to be played on a network. Servers up to 32 players are supported.

• PengSwim

  PengSwim is a game of swimming and eating, a penguin's two favorite activities. The pbject of PengSwim is to eat as many fish as possible within the time limit. Once you've eaten all the fish on the level, you move to a new level with more fish to eat. What could be simpler?

• Pengupop

  Pengupop is an online multiplayer clone of Frozen-Bubble/Bust a Move. The purpose of the game is to shoot colored balls so they form groups and thus fall down. Any balls that fall down will reappear on your opponent's playfield as a side-effect.

• Possible Worlds

  Snowball Surprise is a strategic, action packed 3D team game that's so cool it's freezing! The penguin inhabitants of Avatarctica love playing games such as Snowball Fight, Capture The Flag, Tag, and Soccer! Made with Python and OpenGL.

• Project Ares

  Project Ares is a science fiction-based game made with AresEd, a 3D game creation suite based on Crystal Space.

• Pslange

  pslange is a small console based game. It is a clone of an old classic usually known as snake or nibbles.

• Psychopyretic

  Psychopyretic is a dungeon-based platformer game. The eventual goal is to allow full extensibility through the editing or creation of map files, campaign files, and scripts.

• pyCave

  PyCave is a clone of the game SFCave, but with 3D graphics. The goal of the game is to fly a damaged ship inside a tunnel, avoiding obstacles. Other games of a similar nature are the famous "Helicopter Game" Flash game or "Jetman" in Facebook.

• pydance

  pydance is a dancing game similar to Dance Dance Revolution or Pump It Up, for GNU/Linux.

• pyDDR

  pyDDR is a DDR clone for Python that needs a name. DDR stands for Dance Dance Revolution, a game that's slowly earning popularity in the states, but is tremendously popular in Asian countries.

• Rabid Rabbit

  Rabid Rabbit is a game for one player. You play a rabbit which tries to rescue lost sheep from marauding creatures.

• rbCave

  rbCave is a clone of the PalmOS game SFCave. The player has to guide a "ship" through a cave that gets smaller as time passes.

• reaper

  reaper is an OpenGL based 3D-game, emphasizing stunning graphics and interesting algorithms. Similiar to Rogue Squadron.

• Robo Hunt

  In Robo Hunt you must take all the plutonium and don't be caught. The robot hunters uses Partile Filters AI technique

• RoboTournament

  RoboTournament is a RoboRally inspired game where players program their robots to vanquish their opponents. RoboTournament features: Multiple Game Types: Death Match, Rally, and Capture The Flag, Multi-Player through TCP/IP, six weapons including the BFG, a map editor, and integrated chat.

• Sarah-Maries Eierjagd

  Sarah-Maries Eierjagd is a small game that uses the SDL library. Catch as much eggs as you can, but none of the old eggs. Catch five golden eggs to fix one mistake.

• SDL Asylum

  SDL Asylum is a C/SDL port of Andy Southgate's 1994 game Asylum, originally for the Acorn Archimedes. In the game, 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.

• SDL Sopwith

  SDL Sopwith is a port of the classic flying game Sopwith to modern operating systems and toolkits. It was originally a port to the LibSDL toolkit, but there is now a GTK+ version as well.

• SdlZombies

  SdlZombies is a clone of old zombie games where you attract zombies and make them fall in holes.

• Search and Rescue

  Search and Rescue is a game where the player pilots rescue helicopters to rescue victims in various situations of distress.

• Sintel The Game

  Sintel The Game is a video game adaptation of popular open movie Sintel by Blender Foundation.

• Siroi Danmakukun

  Siroi Danmakukun is a distillation of what excites (or frightens, or terrorizes) many modern shmup players: insane patterns of bullets.

• ski

  Imagine you are skiing down an infinite slope, facing such hazards as trees, ice, bare ground, and the man-eating Yeti!

• Slune

  Slune is a 3D game which includes racing, car-crashing, and lots of action!

• Smiling Bubbles

  (commercial) Smiling Bubbles is a cartoon style game with bright-colored bubbles, bubble-faces and tons of bonuses. The task of the player is to remove all the bubbles from the game field by shooting at them.

• Snowball Surprise

  Snowball Surprise is a strategic, action packed 3D team game that's so cool it's freezing! The penguin inhabitants of Avatarctica love playing games such as Snowball Fight, Capture The Flag, Tag, and Soccer! Made with Python and OpenGL.

• Snowballz

  Snowballz is a (hopefully) fun little game in which you engage your group of penguins in a snowball fight.

• StepBill

  An evil computer hacker, known only by his handle 'Bill', has created the ultimate computer virus. A virus so powerful that it has the power to transmute an ordinary computer into a toaster oven. (oooh!) 'Bill' has cloned himself into a billion-jillion micro-Bills. Their sole purpose is to deliver the nefarious virus, which has been cleverly disguised as a popular operating system. As System Administrator/Exterminator, your job is to keep Bill from succeeding at his task.

• The Grind

  The Grind is a simple game about escaping from work at a reasonable hour by avoiding responsibility.

• The Invasion of the Blobs

  Take this blob repellent. Spray the can to play.

• The Real Texas

  (commercial) The Real Texas is an action adventure game that plays like a mashup of Zelda: Link to the Past and Ultima VI.

• Tiny & Big in: Grandpa?s Leftovers

  (commercial) Tiny & Big in: Grandpa's Leftovers is set in a land, where common physics apply but everything else looks different. You are Tiny, a little, technophile guy with a ray cutter, a gripping device, a bad habit and a fine attitude towards the world. Read more

• trailblazer

  trailblazer is a version of the classic Commodore and Sinclair Spectrum game: bounce a ball down a track to the end, avoiding the holes. This game is for Linux and other operating systems, and uses SDL

• Transcend Game

  Transcend can best be described as retro-style, abstract, 2D shooter. The graphics are geometrical, and the pace is sometimes frenzied. Two features set Transcend apart from other games. First, its dynamic graphical engine, which can smoothly morph from one complex shape to another, produces striking displays. Combining these dynamic shapes with subtle randomizations makes each play through a Transcend level visually different from the last. The second novel feature is Transcend's musical power-up system. As you play through a level, you are simultaneously assembling an abstract visual collage and arranging a unique piece of music. Transcend merges video games with pure art---it can be viewed either as a game or as a multimedia sculpture.

• Tunnel

  Tunnel is a game in which you control a capsule going down a tunnel, shooting other balls in the way. Tunnel is free software released under the GPL. The game has been tested on GNU/Linux and Windows.

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MAME (an acronym of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten. The aim of MAME is to be a reference to the inner workings of the emulated arcade machines; the ability to actually play the games is considered "a nice side effect".

The first public MAME release (0.1) was on February 5, 1997, by Nicola Salmoria. The emulator now supports over seven thousand unique games and ten thousand actual ROM image sets, though not all of the supported games are playable. The project is currently maintained by MESS project leader, Miodrag Milanovic.

The original program code and graphics and sound data need to be present so that the game can be emulated. In most arcade machines, the data is stored in read-only memory chips (ROMs), although other devices such as cassette tapes, floppy disks, hard disks, laserdiscs, and compact discs are also used.

The contents of most of these devices can be copied to computer files, in a process called "dumping". The resulting files are often generically called ROM images or ROMs regardless of the kind of storage they came from. A game usually consists of multiple ROM and PAL images; these are collectively stored inside a single ZIP file, constituting a ROM set.

In addition to the "parent" ROM set (usually chosen as the most recent "World" version of the game), games may have "clone" ROM sets with different program code, different language text intended for different markets etc. For example, Street Fighter II Turbo is considered a variant of Street Fighter II Champion Edition. System boards like the Neo Geo that have ROMs shared between multiple games require the ROMs to be stored in "BIOS" ROM sets and named appropriately.

Individual ROM files are often named after labels found on the ROM chips and the position they are located on the board in the format "label.position". Sega for example use a standard labeling scheme for all the ROMs found on their arcade boards giving each unique ROM chip a unique label. "mpr12380.b2" is a ROM from the Golden Axe romset. This implies that the ROM was labeled "mpr12380" and located in position "b2" on the PCB. By using such a naming scheme it makes it easy to use MAME to identify, and often help repair, non-working PCBs.

Hard disks, CDs and laserdiscs are stored in a MAME-specific but documented format called the CHD (Compressed Hunks of Data). Some arcade machines use analog hardware, such as laserdiscs, to store and play back audio/video data such as soundtracks and cinematics. This data must be captured and encoded into digital files that can be read by MAME. Although MAME supports lossless compression of laserdisc data, it can be argued that the digital copy is not a perfect reproduction of the analog source.

A number of games use sound chips that have not yet been emulated successfully. These games require sound samples in WAV file format for sound emulation.

MAME additionally supports artwork files in PNG format for bezel and overlay graphics.

Download.

For a while, the official Linux build of MAME was known as XMAME. While you can download still find distributions of XMAME for download, it is no longer being maintained, and has been replaced by SDLMAME as the official cross-platform variety of MAME since SDL is supported on a number of platforms including Linux, Windows, and Mac. There are several sources of SDLMAME including the official homepage, the Ubuntu distribution, the Debian repository, and Fedora RPMs.

All versions of SDLMAME are strictly command line driven, but there are numerous front-ends that are available for use with SDLMAME including the cross platform "MAME Plus! GUI" (linux version is Qt4 based), Qt4 based QMC2, Java based XMAME GUI, KDE based KXMAME, and Gnome based Gnome Video Arcade.

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Android tablets have been around for more than a year, but there still aren’t very many games designed to take advantage of a large screen. These games are not only playable on tablets as well as Android phones (at no extra charge, unlike iOS apps), they are all more fun to play on the big screen. Some of these Games were first available on Apple’s iPad, but as the number of Android tablets increases, we are seeing some companies release games for both formats at the same time.

• Real Racing 3 Cheats, tips and tricks iOS, Android
• Candy Crush Saga Cheats, Cheat Codes and Hints for iPhone, iPad, iPod
• Cheats for Gun Bros 2 app game for iPad, iPhone, iPod and Android

Keep in mind that, try as we might to pick the best Android tablet games with broad tablet support, it is possible that any given game on our list might not be compatible with your tablet. If your favorite game hasn’t made our list, please let us know and we will take a look at it.

Once you know what games to play, you’ll need a tablet to play them on, so check out picks for the 2013 best and cheapest Android Tablets:

• Top 10+ Best Android Tablets in The World | 2013
• 2013 Top 5 Cheapest Android Tablets in India [Below Rs 10,000]

Part One. 2013 The Most Popular Free Android Tablet Games

1. Dead Trigger (Free)

You just can’t beat a bit of first-person shooter action with zombies. There’s something relaxing and deeply satisfying about slaughtering wave after wave of the undead. Dead Trigger features the standard post-apocalyptic zombie uprising scenario and it looks great. The basic game is free, but you do have the option of splashing out on in-app purchases like better weapons and upgraded abilities.

2. Bad Piggies HD (Free)

Those little green porkers from Angry Birds don’t spend all their time stealing eggs. Rovio has created a twist on its classic hit here that has the same format and cute cartoon art style, but introduces new gameplay. The addictive action challenges you to create weird and wonderful vehicles so you can reach all the collectibles across over 80 levels. This is good, clean fun for the whole family and it requires some creative thinking to score maximum stars.

3. Fruit Ninja (Free)

There’s not a whole lot of games out there that manages to appeal to both ninjas and vegans, but Fruit Ninja manages to encompass the cross-section of those markets. Fruits come flying across the screen in vibrant, beautiful color. It’s your job to turn the flying produce into a sliced serving with quick swipes across the screen. It sounds ridiculous, but it’s truly one of the best games around, especially for those that really get a kick out of cutting up fruit.

4. Neuroshima Hex Lite (Free)

Seize control of the post-apocalyptic remnants of humanity with Neuroshima Hex! A mobile port of the Polish board game of the same name, players take command of one of disparate factions of survivors attempting to destroy their rivals by laying down hex tiles representing troops. Set up your assault while blocking off your opponents, and when the battle tile is played, hell is unleashed. The game includes detailed rules and links to video tutorials, and supports 2-4 player battles against a competent AI or pass-and-play multiplayer. Unfortunately, Android players are still waiting for online multiplayer, which has already been implemented on iOS. The Lite version only allows you to play against the AI and with limited army access. The full version unlocks more armies with additional ones released as IAPs (in-app purchases).

5. Words with Friends (Free)

Zynga’s Words with Friends is a multiplayer Scrabble-like game where players compete for the highest score by forming words on the board and taking advantage of previously laid down letters and special tiles in order to magnify the points of their words. Asynchronous multiplay allows you to play at your own pace, with up to twenty games open at any one time. Play with your friends and contacts, or against random strangers, and keep in touch with in-game chat messaging. Additionally, a notifications system informs you when your turn rolls around, allowing you to get right to it.

6. Shadowgun: DeadZone (Free)

If you enjoyed the third-person shooter adventure Shadowgun, you might be interested in this multiplayer offshoot. You’re never going to replicate the shooter experience you’ll get with a console or desktop on a tablet, but this is a good effort. You can have up to 12 players shooting it out for supremacy in Deathmatch and there’s an alternative Zone Control mode which pits two teams of six against each other for control of the map. There’s a ranking system, weaponry to buy, and optional in-app purchases for cosmetic items.

7. Heroes of Order And Chaos (Free)

Gameloft’s Heroes of Order and Chaos is an impressive attempt to bring MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) gaming to mobile formats. Heroes of Chaos is a multiplayer game with players choosing specialized teams of heroes to lead against in battle against their enemies. New heroes cycle in and out every week, though players can choose to buy personal favorites for everyday use, and the game supports 5-on-5 sessions. Heroes of Order and Chaos has a surprisingly good interface with responsive movement and easily accessible icons.

8. Triple Town (Free)

Spry Fox LLC’s Triple Town is a simple, addictive match three game. Players try to build the biggest town they can, earning points by matching three objects of the same kind in order to create the next object up the hierarchy. Three clumps of grass make a bush, three bushes make a tree, three trees to a house, etc. Along the way, you need to outwit giant bears who will get in the way of your construction plans. Free-to-play, Triple Town uses a time energy mechanic, though you can use in-game points to buy turns, or purchase unlimited turns with real money.

9. Global Outbreak (Free)

Zooming out from the survivor’s view to the commander’s, we get Global Outbreak, a free-to-play strategy game where players take the role of mercenaries fighting the zombie apocalypse. The game plays out on the tactically and strategically as players direct their mercenaries through a top-down view, slaying zombie hordes and rescuing VIPs while taking command of the global conflict by building a network of helicopter bases and turrets to contain and eliminate zombie outbreaks. It’s the strategic level that is this game’s blessing and curse, as the worldmap system, while well designed, takes a fair amount of real time (constructing bases can take 15 minutes, and some research projects more than an hour). This means the game oscillates between tactical action segments and lots of thumb-twiddling in the slow worldmap mode. Being free-to-play, of course, there’s an option to spend real money to skip the tedium.

10. Zenonia 5 (Free)

If you’ve never heard of the series, Zenonia 5 is a freemium Anime action RPG. You can choose from four character classes with a full range of customization options and skill charts to level up. It’s packed with missions and it offers PvP as well. If you’re a fan of RPGs and you want a great-looking example designed for tablets then this is it. The control system is well designed and if you get bored of grinding you can shortcut to the goodies you want via in-app purchases.

11. Six Guns (Free)

A tumbleweed rolls across the screen. The clock in town rings out and the sun is just beginning to set. You walk out through the swinging doors of a saloon to meet a man in the middle of town, both of you ready to reach for the gun on your hip at any given moment. That’s the world you’ll enter in Six Guns. This title takes you back to the Wild West and allows you to roam through the old frontier on foot or horseback.

12. Tiny Tower (Free)

No matter how much you loathe Donald Trump, you can’t deny that having multimillion-dollar buildings with your name on it would be pretty awesome. Tiny Tower lets you live this fantasy without the terrible Trump hair. Build from the ground up until you’ve got a building that is prime real estate for businesses and residents. This game is deceivingly deep, with an in-game social network for characters and completely customizable floor and room layout. It’s like Sim City if it took place in a single building.

13. OnLive (free)

Why be limited to specific games when you can install the free OnLive app and play the latest console titles on your Android tablet? The service allows you to stream games to your tablet from remote servers. You can check out our OnLive hands-on impressions to find out more. There are a few touch-based options available, like L.A. Noire, or you can opt to buy the wireless controller and play games like Batman: Arkham City in all their glory.

Part Two. 2013 The Most Popular Paid Android Tablet Games

14. Ski Safari ($0.99)

Can you stay ahead of the avalanche in this side-scrolling runner? You’ll need to build up speed by pulling off tricks and grabbing strange animals and vehicles, but make sure you avoid the obstacles. The game is easy to pick up and play, and there are tricky achievements to aim for that will keep you coming back for more. The game has a nice sense of humor and it’s well crafted so genre fans of titles like Canabalt and Tiny Wings should definitely grab this.

15. Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour $0.99

Gameloft’s Modern Combat franchise is the closest we’ll get to a Call of Duty on an Android tablet for the moment. Sure, you could call it just another derivative modern war shooter, but it’s an excellently made one, hitting all the right points in graphic design, level design, gameplay, and online multiplayer. The singleplayer campaign? Well, the writing isn’t really anything groundbreaking or fantastic, but you can cut it some slack with the richness of the gameplay that Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour delivers.

16. Angry Birds Star Wars HD ($2.99)

Angry Birds is a ubiquitous mobile game series that’s hit on a good formula of classic catapult demolition gameplay, accessible art style, and sound puzzle design to spawn a hit gaming franchise. The latest release, Angry Birds Star Wars, takes Angry Birds’ classic formula and adds new powers and puzzles inspired by George Lucas’ classic space opera series.

17. Great Big War Game ($3.99)

Fancy yourself as a tactician? You have to try out the turn-based strategy classic, Great Big War Game. The cartoonish graphics are great, it has a bit of humor to it, but most importantly the gameplay is immersive. You’ll need some real tactical skill to emerge victorious from the 50 mission single player campaign. You can also indulge in a spot of multiplayer action so there’s plenty of content on offer to justify that price tag.

18. Nes.emu ($4)

New games are great, but there’s a certain charm to those old titles we grew up on. Get nostalgic with NES.emu, a Nintendo Entertainment System Emulator built for your Android device. It’s all the fun of one of the greatest console experiences ever – and now it can come with you. From first party classics like Mario and Metroid to awesome ports like Bubble Bobble and Mega Man, just launching this app will feel like you’re stepping back into the 1980′s – without having to wear the terrible clothes.

19. World of Goo ($4.99)

It looks gorgeous and it plays like a physics-based dream. World of Goo started its life as a Wii game, which makes it ideal for your Android tablet. If you’ve never seen this smash hit before it’s essentially a very weird and addictive puzzle game that came out a few years back. Just buy it, you won’t regret it. If you’re tempted then check out the Humble Bundle where you can pick up World of Goo, along with a bunch of excellent indie classics for your Android tablet, and give to charity at the same time.

20. Shadowgun THD ($4.99)

You could call ShadowGun the mobile Gears of War. Bounty hunter John Slade is tasked with tracking down a mad scientist and his genetically engineered creations and putting a stop to his schemes using a high-tech arsenal of weaponry. All cliche, but you’re playing this game for the gory action, not the deep, soul-scouring plot. This third-person shooter delivers moody, gritty environments, tough enemy AI, and cover-based gameplay. It delivers hours of entertainment, and the expansions ‘ShadowGun: The Leftover’ and ‘ShadowGun: Deadzone’ offer more single player action and multiplayer mayhem respectively.

21. Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($4.99)

SuperBrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an audiovisual experience wrapped around an adventure game. You take control of the Scythian as she explores a gorgeously rendered pixel-art fantasy world, doing battle against strange creatures with her sword and using the magic of sworcery to solve puzzles. The beautiful soundtrack is one of the compelling draws of the game, meshing perfectly with the gameplay and its visuals. The beautiful art and soundtrack are accompanied by the fun writing for the narrator Archetype, and the Scythian’s inner voice. This is best described as a silly hipster Conan. It doesn’t break through the fourth wall. It never bothered to build one in the first place.

22. Minecraft Pocket Edition ($6.99)

Minecraft Pocket Edition is a mobile port of Mojang’s open-world sandbox classic that manages to capture much of the game’s charm while distilling it down for the mobile platform. Explore enormous, randomly generated worlds, get busy terraforming, building fanciful structures and Rube Goldberg machines, and even have a blast with local WiFi multiplayer options. While it doesn’t have everything the PC version has, Minecraft Pocket Edition, like it’s desktop sibling, is a game constantly in development, with new features always being worked into the game.

23. N.O.V.A. 3 ($6.99)

N.O.V.A. 3 is the latest installment in Gameloft’s sci-fi shoot-em-up series. As Kal Wardin, you fight your way through stunningly rendered urban and alien landscapes with a deadly arsenal of weapons powered by your Mobile Armored Suit. N.O.V.A. 3 also offers fierce multiplayer battles with up to 12 players. The entire package is a thinly-veiled riff of marquee shooter franchises like Halo and Crysis, which isn’t a bad thing. Like many mobile shooters, controls can feel a bit crowded and take some getting used to. Otherwise, N.O.V.A. 3 is one of the best shooters on Android.

24. Mass Effect Infiltrator ($7.82)

Mass Effect Infiltrator is a mobile tie-in to Electronic Arts’ Mass Effect 3 RPG shooter. Infiltrator puts players in the shoes of Randall Ezno, a Cerberus commando who turns against his masters once he finds out the shocking truth behind the conspiracy’s machinations. Armed with high-tech weaponry, stealth armor, and awesome biotic powers, players are a one-man army hell-bent on stopping Cerberus’s vile experiments. Progress in game can be tied into Mass Effect 3′s Galaxy at War mechanic, providing extra resources to a player’s campaign.

25. Dead Space ($7.82)

The mobile Dead Space game is a tie-in to the hit video game series, with players taking on the role of Vandal, an agent of the Church of Unitology doing some less than savory assignments who gets caught up in a bloody Necromorph outbreak. Of course, this is the SF horror universe of Dead Space, and nothing is ever what it appears to be. Moody soundtracks, brooding environments, and tense, gory action keep the pressure on the player throughout. As Vandal’s sanity unravels, can the Necromorph outbreak be stopped?

An Arcade game (or coin-op) is a coin-operated entertainment machine, usually installed in public businesses, such as restaurants, bars, and particularly amusement arcades.

Most arcade games are video games, pinball machines, electro-mechanical games, redemption games, and merchandisers (such as claw cranes).
The golden age of arcade video games lasted from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.

While arcade games were still relatively popular during the late 1990s, the entertainment medium saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western hemisphere when home-based video game consoles made the transition from 2D graphics to 3D graphics. Despite this, arcades remain popular in many parts of Asia as late as the early 2010s.

The term "arcade game" is also, in recent times, used to refer to a video game that was designed to play similarly to an arcade game with frantic, addicting gameplay.

The first popular "arcade games" were early amusement park midway games such as shooting galleries, ball toss games, and the earliest coin-operated machines, such as those that claim to tell a person their fortune or played mechanical music.

The old midways of 1920s-era amusement parks (such as Coney Island in New York) provided the inspiration and atmosphere of later arcade games.

In the 1930s, the first coin-operated pinball machines were made. These early amusement machines were distinct from their later electronic cousins in that they were made of wood, also they did not have plungers or lit-up bonus surfaces on the playing field, and used mechanical instead of electronic scoring readouts. By around 1977, most pinball machines in production switched to using solid state electronics for both operation and scoring.

Arcade games often have short levels, simple and intuitive control schemes, and rapidly increasing difficulty. This is due to the environment of the Arcade, where the player is essentially renting the game for as long as their in-game avatar can stay alive (or until they run out of tokens).

Games on consoles or PCs can be referred to as "arcade games" if they share these qualities or are direct ports of arcade titles. Many independent developers are now producing games in the arcade genre that are designed specifically for use on the Internet. These games are usually designed with Flash/Java/DHTML and run directly in web-browsers.

Arcade racing games have a simplified physics engine and do not require much learning time when compared with racing simulators. Cars can turn sharply without braking or understeer, and the AI rivals are sometimes programmed so they are always near the player (rubberband effect).

Arcade flight games also use simplified physics and controls in comparison to flight simulators. These are meant to have an easy learning curve, in order to preserve their action component. Increasing numbers of console flight video games, from Crimson Skies to Ace Combat and Secret Weapons Over Normandy indicate the falling of manual-heavy flight sim popularity in favor of instant arcade flight action.

Other types of arcade-style games include fighting games (often played with an arcade controller), beat 'em up games (including fast-paced hack and slash games), light gun rail shooters and "bullet hell" shooters (intuitive controls and rapidly increasing difficulty), music games (particularly rhythm games), and mobile/casual games (intuitive controls and often played in short sessions).

Today's arcades have found a niche in games that use special controllers largely inaccessible to home users. An alternative interpretation (one that includes fighting games, which continue to thrive and require no special controller) is that the arcade game is now a more socially-oriented hangout, with games that focus on an individual's performance, rather than the game's content, as the primary form of novelty. Examples of today's popular genres are rhythm games such as Dance Dance Revolution (1998) and DrumMania (1999), and rail shooters such as Virtua Cop (1994), Time Crisis and House of the Dead (1996).

In the Western world, the arcade video game industry still exists today but in a greatly reduced form. Video arcade game hardware is often based on home game consoles to facilitate porting a video arcade game to a home system; there are video arcade versions of Dreamcast (NAOMI, Atomiswave), PlayStation 2 (System 246), Nintendo GameCube (Triforce), and Microsoft Xbox (Chihiro) home consoles. Some arcades have survived by expanding into ticket-based prize redemption and more physical games with no home console equivalent, such as skee ball and whack-a-mole. Some genres, particularly dancing and rhythm games (such as Konami's Dance Dance Revolution), continue to be popular in arcades.

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• Toribash

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• True Combat

  True Combat is a modification to Quake III arena featuring scriptable mission objectives in maps, C4 and smoke grenades to your arsenal, realistic lens flares, glare, and flash blend effects.

• Unreal Tournament 2004

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• Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

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• World of Padman

  World of Padman is a multiplayer fun action shooter using the Quake 3 engine base. Read morehot

• 0verkill

  0verkill is a bloody 2D action deathmatch-like game in ASCII-ART running under Linux, OS/2 and Windows. Read more

• ActionCube

  ActionCube is a total conversion of Wouter van Oortmerssen´s FPS called Cube. Set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that´s possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

• Adanaxis

  Adanaxis is fast-moving first person shooter set in deep space, where the fundamentals of space itself are changed. By adding another dimension to space this game provides an environment with movement in four directions and six planes of rotation.

• Aleph One/SDL

  Aleph One is based on the game Marathon 2 by Bungie Software. It supports, but doesn't require, OpenGL for rendering. Aleph One was originally a Mac-only game, but there is now a cross-platform version based on the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library, that should in theory run on all systems supported by SDL

• Alien Arena 2006

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• Alien Arena 2007

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• Alien Arena: Reloaded Edition

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• Alien Swarm

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• America's Army: Special Forces

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• Argonium

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• Balder

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• Balder2D

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• Battle Free

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• Black Shades

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• Black Shades Elite

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• Blood Frontier

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• Counter-Strike 2D

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  Dreams Eternal tries to concentrate on the storyline instead of just shooting. The goal of the game is also to have a scary athmosphere. Basically the game will play in the dream world and will concentrate on puzzle solving.

• DXX Rebirth

  DXX-Rebirth is a remake of the two DESCENT ports D1X and D2X.

• EDuke32

  EDuke32 is an actively developed port of the classic, Duke Nukem. Duke Nukem 3D was a first person shooter developed by 3D Realms and released in 1996.

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