I've been keeping an eye out for an arena shooter for my arcade cabinet. There are quite a few of them out there, but the majority of them require analog controls. I was pretty excited when I read about the Bundle of Wrong at OnlyLinuxGames.com.
The Bundle of Wrong is a pay-what-you-want style bundle. My expectations were pretty low, I didn't expect the games to run well under Wine. I was very wrong, all the games in the bundle seem to run flawlessly under Wine.
Every game in the bundle looks quite awesome on my arcade cabinet. Unfortunately, for now, most of them run a bit slow on there. The good news is that I will be upgrading the video card soon. A good friend of mine is letting me steal one of his old video cards that is a few generations newer than the one currently installed in the cabinet.
The arena shooters: SYNSO:CE, Squid Harder:SE, and War Twat
All the arena shooters in the bundle share one thing in common: they are all extremely colorful and psychedelic. Especially [War Twat]http://bagfullofwrong.co.uk/bagfullofwords/2009/05/war-twat/)(, which also comes with a "Colour Blindness Edition" for old people like me who tend to lose track of the bullets in the rotating color palette.
I've enjoyed playing all three games, but I think my favorite is probably Squid Hardest. The arena feels a bit larger and I really like the music in Squid Hardest. I have gotten that little tune stuck in my head a few times already!
A game with an awesome name: Squid and Let Die
I haven't had a chance to play Squid and Let Die much. I have only gotten far enough to verify that it runs well on the cabinet. The short description from the Bagfull of Wrong web site sums it up pretty well:
Squid And Let Die is a game. Collect the dots. Do not die. The board is a death trap. Fight inevitability.
The retro style, mostly green graphics bring back fond memories of the green screen monitor of the Franklin Ace 1000 we had when I was a kid.
The Bundle of Wrong is fitting in well with my glowing collection of modern, retro-style games on my arcade cabinet.
See also:
- Remembering the Arcades I Grew Up In
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: Playing "Titan Attacks!" Without a Mouse
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: The Humble Indie Bundles
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: rRootage, Noiz2sa, Torus Troopers, and More
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: Cave Story
- (Not Quite) Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: Mactabilis
- (Not Quite) Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: The Bundle of Wrong
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: Voxatron
- Native Linux Games for an Arcade Cabinet: Blocks That Matter
- A Year of Native Linux Indie Games on My Arcade Cabinet - 2011
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