Blog of Martin Janda » games for linux http://www.martinjanda.com about Linux, Internet, Life and learning English. Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:25:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Games of my childhood: Pushover http://www.martinjanda.com/2010/10/old-games-pushower/ http://www.martinjanda.com/2010/10/old-games-pushower/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:29:34 +0000 Janda Martin http://www.martinjanda.com/?p=161 Today’s text is opening a series of articles about games from my childhood. Nowadays I do not have time for playing games, because of work and other hobbies. These articles are full of personal nostalgia. Let
me share the nostalgia with you. Today I’ll start with the game Pushover.

This game was released by Ocean in 1992 for PC with MS-DOS. I got the game in 1993. The game offered a very cute graphics and the sound through the PC speaker was good. The main character that is controled by you is the Ant that passes through the levels with increasing difficulty.

The goal of each level is to put all the cubes together. It sounds simple, but the higher levels are really tricky. There are several types of blocks with special properties.

And finally the best: we can now play Pushover again on Linux and Windows, thanks to Andreas Röver and Volker Grabsch.

Warning: The following video is also a guide for the first few levels.
Watch till the end and you will lose all the fun!

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]]> http://www.martinjanda.com/2010/10/old-games-pushower/feed/ 0 World of goo – pay whatever you think it’s worth http://www.martinjanda.com/2009/10/world-of-goo-pay-whatever-you-think-its-worth/ http://www.martinjanda.com/2009/10/world-of-goo-pay-whatever-you-think-its-worth/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 11:42:35 +0000 Janda Martin http://www.martinjanda.com/?p=114 World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game with cute graphics. It have Birthday today and you may pay whatever you think it’s worth and get it! This will get you the Windows and Mac and Linux versions downloadable right away. This is a great opportunity to get this game and support the indie game studio 2D Boy.

I certainly recommend trying the demo and decide for yourself.

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