At a loss over what to play
So, you spent time digging worms, and then you stood by a slow moving stream, watching some anonymous annelid wiggling on the end of small hook. In the list of intentions is catch a fish, clean and eat same. Even though you don’t like fresh fish, and you aren’t sure that THIS stream contains anything other than an old tire and some moss covered rocks that are slippery when wet. Life isn’t always simple.
Now that I’ve set the imagery, what really bothers me (today; tomorrow is open to negotiation) is that I haven’t found a real game to play when I boot into Linux. Sure, I’m a past master at that Tetris clone, and my analytical skills in Mahjongg are legendary, but those are so passée. I’m talking about a Real Game, one that would make my children sit up and say Wow! Not WOW, because they have that world under control, but something they haven’t already seen and printed out the cheat codes for.
The catch is that I’m not a gamer. I tend to get my jollies from lists of names, or obscure trivial references. I’ve spent time searching the repositories, but that word better describes a place where old bones are stored (I did find the Tetris and Tile games there, in passing). What’s next? Should I open my first question on Slashdot, where the world can mock my lack of wizardry, or should I simply find something that will allow my new Linux box to serve as a platform for hours of Adventure or Zork?
Life was much simpler when I received my Kaypro; the only graphical game involved letter matrices that served to keep a cursor climbing upward. And how about Pacman derivatives on a CoCo3, loaded from tape. Those were the days. Now I have the Internet: millions of channels and nothing to play.
