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Forgive me if I expect Google's engineers to do a quick google search before picking a name that's already been taken for a few years.

and their choice of chromium was even more stupid because of an already existing game with such a name.

Right now the Chromium download page only supplies Linux and Windows versions:

http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/download.htm

NOT THE BROWSER! Although I love the browser, the Chromium B.S.U. game has been out for quite a bit longer. If you ever enjoyed playing fast paced jet fighter games like space invaders on crack, then you will like Chromium B.S.U. It reminds me a lot of "Raptor" for DOS back in the day, which also was quite a bad ass game. Other than that, quite a few people already mentioned Nexuiz. I particularly enjoy OpenArena as well even though it is just a new skin for Quake 3. It is free, and plays nice and fast. Lots of fun.

what do you paste in chromium ?

http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

Yep - no tabs, not address bar... It's like it's *completely* different...

I really think Google should rethink the name 'Chromium' for their browser on Linux. Don't be evil and all that.

Mozilla did it when their browser name clashed with an open source database project, too.

Searching...
[ Results for search key : chromium ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]

* games-action/chromium
            Latest version available: 0.9.12-r6
            Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
            Size of files: 1,710 kB
            Homepage: http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/
            Description: Chromium B.S.U. - an arcade game
            License: Artistic

Doesn't look like it's available on Gentoo.

Here's a few "Good" open source games. There are quite a few others out there. Sure, there may not be UberLeetHardcoreGamerOrgyOfTheMonth, but there are high quality ones out there if you look, plus Opensource ports of many classic games (not listed)

Planet Penguin Racing- http://projects.planetpenguin.de/
FlightGear- http://www.flightgear.org/
Armagetron - http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/
Vega Strike (see also the WC Privateer remake)- http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/
Frozen Bubble-
      http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
      Live java version- http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

Quake 3 - http://liberatedgames.org/game.php?game_id=90
Scorched3D - http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
ChromiumBSU - http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/

This is just what I could think of in a few minutes- There is a really great 3d Nascar style game on the Suse 9.2 DVD, but I can't remember it's name while I'm at work.

• UT2004 (Also Unreal - 2003 work as well)
• Neverwinter Nights
• SAVAGE: The Battle for Newerth
• Enemy Territory
• Quake3
• Americas Army

• Forzen Bubble
• Scorched3D
• Legends (Tribes2 Clone)
• Chromium (Space Invaders Clone)

Chromium needs GL to run.
And some people like to show off their GL-Savers too.

I think of the free ones, Chromium B.S.U. is the best. Abuse is good, but it's not really a side scrolling shooter in my opinion, it's more like Contra or something. If Chromium could only get more than the three weapons, some sort of phalanx type thing would be awesome. -Rich

• FreeCiv - free Civ 1/2 clone
  
• Tux Racer - downhill racing game
  
• Tux Typing - typing tutor
  
• IceBreaker - Jezzball clone
  
• Maelstrom - networkable, cool Asteroids clone
  
• Angband - best dungeon crawl ever!
  
• Chromium BSU - neat-o OpenGL 2D shooter
  

Interesting point, but I really doubt that this is aimed at the general consumer. It's for Joe Linux, who prides himself on doing nifty tech things with Linux.

Okay, Tux Racer may not be the most amazing thing in the world, but it's fun for a couple hours.

Freeciv...why is freeciv bad? You don't like civilization? There are some differences, but aside from the fact that civ had more artists (and, IMHO, a worse interface) and is a bit easier to use, not huge difference in fun factor.

Lets consider some others:

zangband/ToME/angband/nethack/etc: These *are* a lot of fun. Diablo has much more simplistic, boring gameplay, and it took off all over. Most variants have a pretty simple text or 2d graphics based interface without music, but some are a bit more elaborate. Be a bit of a pain to play on the controller, yes...

Chromium BSU: flashy scrolling shooter. Could use the 3d hardware in the X-box.

Dunno if you can just use ordinary ol' x86 binaries (particularly considering RAM usage), but:

Quake 3 (use the 3d hardware). Not free.

Abuse: This was a *blast* when it came out -- I played it over and over. It's looking a little dated now, but it's still a good game. Free now -- thanks crack.com.

Pingus is apparently shaping up pretty well.

There's part of the amazing Exile series available for Linux. (shareware)

Maelstrom may be too "simple" for you, as it's only an astroids clone, but it was a very well known game on the Mac for a long time, and I still like it.

While I'm not a tremendous fan of Illwinter's Conquest of Elysium II, their Dominions: Priests, Prophets, and Pretenders is a non-flashy but very deep, very good strategy game. Shareware.

There's a DOS-style shooter from Mountain King Studios, Raptor. (shareware)

Finally, there are all the emulators and whatnot...take a look at GNUboy, TuxNES, snes9x, DGen/SDL,
FreeSCI, Sarien, Exult, XU4, ScummVM, Basilisk II, YAE and others.

There are a host of Loki ports that you can't get any more except used. Lots of good stuff from LGames, though I'm not as big a fan of their stuff as some other people are.

Finally, text-based but really, really sophisticated, good, and almost all of them free, there are text-based interactive fiction (Try Tower of Babel before giving up on this...first one I ever beat without cheating, and it's *soooooo* good). The Interactive Fiction Archive has games and players.

Finally, many good games can be played through WINE -- Starcraft, Fallout, Max Payne, Half Life...

These are just some of the games that I enjoy under Linux. There are lots more (admittedly, some of lower quality) available at the SDL Games Page and the Linux Games Tome.

Linux games usually take a bit more (okay, often a lot :-) ) more effort to set up properly. But they're often very customizable, you can actually have an impact on the game design ("This game needs feature X"), and you don't have to leave the comfortable environs of Linux. And the environment is getting better, not worse.

Chromium BSU is a wonderful shoot-em-up game. It 's faster and more colorful than anything I've ever seen in the same genre.

In no particular order... Chromium, Tux Racer, GLJewel, KShisen, PySol.

Donations to the cross-platform Simple Direct Media Layer project are also being accepted at the libSDL.org site. (SDL, BTW, recieved a $1,000 grant from the Linux Fund, so you might want to look there too.)

Keep in mind that while most of these projects are developed for Linux, ports to Windows and sometimes Mac OS are usually included. So, even if you don't run Linux -- or any *nix -- you can still benifit.

Projects that you can support include...

1. New Breed Software creates software for both the Agenda handheld (Atari 800 emulator, Agendaroids, Aliens, ...) and X (Circus Linux, X-Bomber, ...).

   www.linux-games.com (note the "-") also has a couple Agenda programs as well as Penguin Command, Castle-combat, Timewarp...

   glTron? Nuf' said.

   Chromium BSU is another action-diversion.

   FreeCiv, PipeNightDreams...well, go see the entire list yourself.

I really enjoyed Chromium B.S.U. (screenshot).
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