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PC Gaming Suggestions for Console-like Fun?
jayminer writes "We are a relatively newly married young couple who enjoy spending our spare time at home. We don't own a console but have a gaming laptop with DVI output to play games on our TV. My wife is also a CS major so she's computer literate enough. She does not like strategy games, MMORG or any other role-playing game. Apart from "Find the Sausage" jokes, we need quality gaming advice, preferably games which we can play with a single laptop connected to a single large screen, with two gamepads, a console-like experience. What are your suggestions?"
"Not only do I have a girlfriend, but we're MARRIED, and she wants to play video games with me! Oh, did I mention she loves Linux?"
The best game to play is "HIDE the sausage"!
The issue with most PC Games even Multi-Player is they expect one person for PC, so they are normally networked for multi-player.
Get 2 USB Keypads, and a Copy of VMWare. Install 2 OS the VMWare and copy of each game on it. setup the virtual network correctly and Link one USB Keypad to each VM. Now Resize the VM Windows so you have Split Screen. And there 2 of you can play games at once (even 2 different ones if you feel like it) on your laptop all for the price of getting a console.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Jesus, if you've got to resort to games this early on in marriage, that's not a good sign.
Sexual deviance, man! That's what you need to try; your "find the sausage" game sounds like a good start. You're married, it's ok to do that now!
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This is Slashdot, so I'm going to guess "all of it".
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For the console-like fun experience, you need a stick, a sharpening tool, and one of your eyes.
Nintendo-Hard, look it up.
(I kid, I kid).
Here's a site showing the best atari games ever complete with the awesome box covers. So real gems in there, many you probably never heard of. Get an emulator and enjoy the nostalgia.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I think the chances of the OP and his wife not having any legs and being unable to go outside to explore the world is a bit slim.
I am this girl. Not as in married to OP but married to my network engineer and all around computer geek husband, play video games w/ him, watch him play video games and love Linux.
/. I think my work here is finished. Honey, do you think we could fit a PS3 between the Wii and 360?
AND ON TOP OF THAT I gave him his own room for electronics. He has a rack.
AND ON TOP OF THAT I have our living room furniture especially arranged to accomodate his chair-side technology requirements, and I don't make him put it away every night.
AND ON TOP OF THAT I love technology for birthday/Christmas/anniversary/in-lieu-of-flowers.
AND ON TOP OF THAT I named our first dog CmdrTaco. No kidding.
I'm so happy to have made my husband the envy of
Am waiting for Lego The Breakfast Club now...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
Which isn't very reassuring if the ROM in question is Asteroids...
'Don't worry' said the trees when they saw the axe coming, 'The handle is one of us.'
There's always Rapid Onset, Vital Passage, or Sudden Thrust.
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Damn lawful alignment. This is why we have a house rule of no paladins.
Curiosity was framed, Ignorance killed the cat.
You just went through all that to basically justify publishing the fact you have a girlfriend and have sex with her, didn't you?