[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent?

[Scott Webster Wood]

I tend to be a big fan of Sid Meier myself and many of his games have 
linux based versions.  A few have even been resurrected as freeware 
(civilization, colonization) as public domain supported revamps.  Most 
are also good learning tools as they contain or relate to historical 
content.  Check out the various Civilization and Colonization versions, 
Gettysburg and Antietam and even Alpha Centauri.
His games tend to be more strategy, country/faction building intensive 
and turn based so they don't require fast reflexes and can be saved and 
resumed later.

SW

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> My dad has asked me for some computer games for his birthday... this
> Sunday. (Oy.)
>
>  He's intelligent and has a sense of humor, but has limited computer
> gaming experience and tends to learn 'computer things' by rote. My
> parents run Ubuntu Linux, so any games I got for them would have to be
> Linux-based or run well under Wine. He's healthy but doesn't have the
> twitch reflexes (or the interest in violence and gore) of the typical
> teenager, so FPS games aren't going to fly.
>
>  He's enjoyed Peggle and a few Flash games. I'm thinking an RTS or a
> turn-based strategy game might work. A driving simulator with a
> force-feedback steering wheel might work, given that it ran well under
> Wine or had a native Linux version.
>
>  So... any suggestions, or genres I haven't come up with?
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                               (313) 227-2317
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