Web site: github.com/rwestlund/freesweep Category: Games Sub-Category: Puzzle, Console Platform: Linux, BSD, Unix-like License: GNU GPL Interface: CLI Wikipedia: First release: 1999 Freesweep – a console minesweeper-style game written in C for Unix-like systems. The ncurses library is preferred, but standard System V curses will work almost perfectly. Features include boards up to 1024×1024, saving and … Read more
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Tetris Battle
Web site: www.facebook.com/tetrisbattle (not active) Category: Games Sub-Category: Puzzle Platform: Web-interface License: Proprietary Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2010 Tetris Battle – a web-based Tetris-like puzzle game designed to play on Facebook web service, created by Tetris Online. This game features competitive Tetris modes against friends or random people. Both direct “battles” and competitive 40-line … Read more
FreeSpace
Web site: www.hard-light.net Category: Games Sub-Category: Simulation Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows License: unknown (open-source) Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 1998 FreeSpace (and FreeSpace 2) – a series of space combat simulation games developed by Volition, Inc. and published by Interplay Entertainment. The games take place in the 24th century. Mankind, referred to as Terrans, … Read more
VBA-Frontend
Web site: vba-frontend.sourceforge.net Category: Emulators Platform: Linux, Unix-like, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 20040320 | March 20,2004 VBA-Frontend – a graphical user interface (GUI) for the famous GameBoyAdvance emulator: Visual Boy Advance. It is written with C and GTK. It is an emulator for GameBoy Advance is Visual Boy Advance, which … Read more
ViBE
Web site: Category: Emulators Platform: Mac OS License: unknown Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: April 1, 2002 ViBE – an emulator of the Nintendo Virtual Boy, a 3D Headset console released by Nintendo in the early 1990s. At the time of writing, ViBE is the only Virtual Boy emulator for any platform to support sound. … Read more
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow
Web site: Category: Games Sub-Category: RPG Platform: Nintendo Game Boy License: Proprietry Interface: GUI Wikipedia: Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow First release: 1996 Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow – console games in the jRPG genre created for the Game Boy console by Game Freak and published by Nintendo in 1996. They are among the first … Read more
FreeOrion
Web site: www.freeorion.org Category: Games Sub-Category: Strategy Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 2005 FreeOrion – a free, open-source, turn-based space empire and galactic conquest (4X) computer game being designed and built by the FreeOrion project. FreeOrion is inspired by the tradition of the Master of Orion games, but … Read more
Tetris Giant
Web site: dekaris.sega.jp Category: Games Sub-Category: Puzzle Platform: Sega License: Proprietary Interface: GUI Wikipedia: Tetris Giant First release: 2009 Tetris Giant (or: Tetris Dekaris (Japanese: テトリス・デカリス, Hepburn: Tetorisu Dekarisu)) – a Tetris puzzle game created by Sega Corporation. It runs on Sega System SP hardware. This game is a one or two-player game with competitive … Read more
Freegish
Web site: github.com/freegish/freegish Category: Games Sub-Category: Platform Platform: Linux, OS X, Windows License: GNU GPL Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: unknown Freegish – a 2D platform game, where the player maneuvers character of a ball of tar. Character may become sticky, slick, heavy and can jump. It is a free version of the game Gish. … Read more
Virtual-E
Web site: www.emuunlim.com/VirtualE Category: Emulators Platform: Windows License: Freeware Interface: GUI Wikipedia: First release: 1999 Virtual-E – a freeware emulator for NEC’s V810 Microproc (alias Virtual Boy’s proc.) written with Win32 and DirectX in C++. This emulator is based on information and code provided by David Tucker and the documentation provided by NEC Semiconductors on … Read more