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Quoting: CFWhitmanJust a suggestion for the future that it might be a good idea to include a link to each game's review on GamingOnLinux, if one exists, so that readers can easily get more information about titles they are not really familiar with.

Do you mean link from this article to any previous coverage here on the site?

Essentially, yes. Though it wouldn't have to be all coverage, just any coverage that constituted a review or an update to the review.

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Just a suggestion for the future that it might be a good idea to include a link to each game's review on GamingOnLinux, if one exists, so that readers can easily get more information about titles they are not really familiar with.

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Quoting: wvstolzingThe C64 was never really a *good* gaming machine -- its strongest assets were the SID chip, and the possibilities it harbored for homebrew tinkering. I've come to realize only recently that games on the NES had WAY better playability, compared to what we had on the C64. So if there's to be a C64 revival, it should be in terms of 6502 (6510) hacking -- something akin to the new BBC Micro, and not really gaming nostalgia.

I'd say in a general sense that is true regarding older Atari games as well. I think that's a big part of why the NES lead to a revival of the popularity of video games. Some of the games on it just had a deeper appeal than what had preceded it. I was never even really a fan of the game play of Super Mario Bros., but it's clear why it had a deeper appeal than older games. The Legend of Zelda didn't look like much when you just saw it, but if you actually played it for a bit, you started to get it. Castlevania and Megaman were appealing to me almost from the minute I laid eyes on them.

That being said I remember liking Chopper Command on the 2600 and Fort Apocalypse on the Commodore 64 a lot.

Also, computer gaming really split away from console gaming in the era that the Amiga was introduced, playing to the different strengths of computers compared to consoles.

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Quoting: Projectile VomitTempest 2000... will it happen? O.o

"One up!"
"Superzapper recharge"
"Yes, yes, yes, yes! yes! yes!!"

Actually, this makes me consider dusting off my Jaguar and hooking it up on the weekend.

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There's a fair chance I'd be interested in this. The way it looks it could replace the Raspberry Pi in my living room for streaming movies from my server through Kodi and retro-gaming, as well as adding the possibilities of working for Netflix (at 720p anyway) and newly released games. I just have to make sure I keep the interface user friendly enough for all the members of my household to continue to be able to use it.

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I'm very busy right now with other things. I have a lot of music I'm supposed to learn and practice on my ocarinas for a mixed ensemble that roped me into playing with them. So, I feel a bit guilty when I devote time to playing a game when I don't have that music learned yet.

However, most recently I've been playing Victor Vran. It's a Diablo/Torchlight type game. It's really quite good as this type of game goes (though some of the challenges require an annoying amount of perfection). The art is quite impressive and it's interesting so far.

Of course the list of games in my queue goes up much faster than I play through them. I have a number of good games that I haven't gotten around to playing yet, but I still am tempted to buy more when I encounter a good deal or a particularly interesting game.

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This is certainly very reminiscent of Limbo in its visual style.

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I'm not really into serious gaming on my laptop right now. I have a Lenovo refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad T450s that I got right after Lenovo discontinued selling that model. I upgraded the 500 GB spinning hard drive with a 16 GB M.2 cache drive to a 960 GB SSD and a 512 GB M.2 drive (there's another M.2 slot, but the drives I put in are probably already overkill). I'm not likely to invest in another new laptop anytime soon.

This laptop works really well with Linux, and my only regret is that it's all Intel because that seemed the most practical way to go at the time. My desktops are always all AMD (my last Intel desktop purchase was a Pentium III processor and motherboard in 1999), even the current one which I got when AMD was considered to have fallen out of competition (yes, it's a Bulldozer series chip).

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I wasn't really a big Windows gamer back then, but I did buy and play Half-Life 2 on Windows. Like a couple others have mentioned, it was the only game I had on Steam (well, I did add my original Half-Life game key so it would work at up-to-date resolutions) until they started releasing Linux games (I still tend to get games from other places when possible).

The other thing I played on Windows when it came out was World of Warcraft with my brothers (and before that Dark Age of Camelot). I also ended up playing that through Wine when it started working really well (when I first started playing it through Wine, the graphics had some issues, but the network worked noticeably better than in Windows). That tends to be such a big time sink, though, that we all quit playing it a bit later on. I really don't have time for something like that now.

On Linux, I played Descent 3, Heretic II, Myth II: Soulblighter, and Quake III Arena from Loki. They were a bit older, but I played them late (some I didn't acquire until after Loki went out of business). I also played some older Windows games through Wine, and I played some console games (mostly on Nintendo handhelds). I certainly played fewer games during that period than a few years earlier. I still don't really feel like I have time to play a lot of games like I did in the eighties and nineties. I have many games I have not even gotten to yet, all on Linux these days (though my brother just got a Nintendo Switch and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and I admit I'd really like to play that).

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiTIs Black Mesa a viable alternative? I'm not sure if I feel like playing a 13 years old game. If you've played those games from the very beginning it's not a problem.

You should realize that Black Mesa is a replacement for the original game, which was 18 years old in November rather than Half-Life 2, which was 12 years old in November. Even the regular edition of Half-Life looks a bit better than it did back when it was released because of the adjustments they made to the resolution when widescreen monitors became popular, so I imagine that Black Mesa looks pretty good with the adjustment to the newer engine. I mentioned in my earlier comment that Half-Life did drag a little on Xen (though I still very much enjoyed the game overall), so the part left out of Black Mesa is almost certainly the weakest part of the game.

The edition Half-Life 2: Update is the enhanced version of the second game. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but to me that enhancement is all it takes to make it look great again, and I don't feel like the gameplay has ever been surpassed by newer titles. Of course, I do still enjoy playing console games from the eighties on occasion (though there may be some nostalgia involved), so perhaps I'm easy to please graphically.

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