[mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent? Starcraft

[May, Mat]

There is a game called Uplink.  You are a computer hacker doing jobs and
earning money so you can upgrade your equipment.  Nothing to flashy, but
it is very addicting (at least for me it is).  And the best part is that
it run natively in Linux.

Here is the website: http://www.introversion.co.uk/uplink/index.html


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-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of gib at juno.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 1:19 PM
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Subject: [mdlug] Suggestions for games for an elderly parent? Starcraft


 
My favorite game is a real time strategy one called Starcraft.  I've
read that it works under Wine. It's from the same folks who do Warcraft.
It looks a bit lake a cartoon so the blood is not really objectionable
(in my opinion). I've seen the Starcraft warchest version selling for
$20 at most software outlets.
Another choice is Sim City.  I suspect it is popular enough that someone
has gotten it to run under Wine. But I don't know.
Total Annilation is not as poplular but similar to Starcraft.

-- "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> 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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