## Description
Bsdgames is a package of terminal games and amusements that were historically
packaged with BSD. It consists of the following games:
* adventure : The classic Colossal Cave text adventure
* arithmetic : An arithmetic quiz
* atc : An Air Traffic controller simulation
* backgammon : The board game “Backgammon”
* battlestar : Another text adventure
* boggle : The board game “Boggle”
* canfield : The Canfield solitaire card game
* cribbage : The board/card game “Cribbage”
* dab : The pen and paper game “dots and boxes”, where you must form the most boxes by connecting a grid of dots.
* fish : The card game “Go Fish”
* gomoku : The board game “Gomoku”
* hack : The classic rogue-like; predecessor to Nethack.
* hangman : The traditional pen and paper word guessing game
* hunt : A multi-player deathmatch maze game
* mille : The board game “Mille Bornes”
* monop : The board game “Monopoly”
* phantasia : A Middle Earth-themed multi-user dungeon
* quiz : A quiz game on a variety of topics
* robots : A strategy/action game to escape a hoard of man-eating robots
* sail : A multi-player naval combat game
* snake : A chase game where you must escape a hungry snake
* tetris : An implementation of Tetris
* trek : A Star-Trek strategy game
* worm : A game where you eat to grow longer and try to avoid hitting your own tail
* wump : The classic “Hunt the Wumpus” game, where you must track and shoot the Wumpus throughout a random cave layout.
Additionally, some versions of this also contain Rogue, which is often removed
or separated due to the license preventing commercial use.
This package also contains a number of non-games, which are described below
for completeness:
* banner : Displays large text banner
* bcd : Reformats input as punch cards
* caesar, rot13 : Decrypt or create a Caesar cipher.
* countmail : Counts the amount of mail you have, similar to Sesame Street
* dm : Dungeon Master: regulates game playing on a shared server
* factor : Lists prime factors of a given number
* morse : Reformats input as morse code
* number : Writes out the words for a give number
* pig : Pig Latin converter
* pom : Displays the phase of the moon
* ppt : Reformats input as paper tape
* primes : Generates a list of prime numbers
* rain : Rain drop screensaver
* random : Picks random lines from a file or generates random numbers
* wargames : Menu for launching games, similar to the movie. Launches the game name typed in.
* worms : Moving worm screensaver
* wtf : Acronym lookup tool
Minimum System Requirements | ||
CPU | Intel i386 | |
RAM | 4 MB |