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Nicolas Raoul
Asked: 2013-02-24 20:49:15 +0800 CST

Games for 2 players on same laptop?

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I only have 1 laptop, and want to play with another person.
No joystick/mouse/anything.
What games can I use?

As per meta: Don't add a new answer, but edit the Community Wiki answer.

Requirements:

  • Fun with two players
  • Enjoyable without spending an hour learning the rules
  • Free, open source is ideal
  • Usable offline, no flash-based nor online-based games.
  • Link to Ubuntu package appreciated
  • two-players-at-one-keyboard or hotseat or anything else OK
games

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  1. Best Answer

    Racing

    Bump Race - bumprace package

    Super Tux Racer - supertux-stable package

    SuperTuxKart

    Armagetron http://armagetronad.org

    Worms-like

    Hedge Wars - hedgewars package

    Warmux - warmux package

    Slingshot

    RPG

    Battle for Wesnoth http://www.wesnoth.org/

    Lordsawar - lordsawar package

    Wings 2 http://www.wings2.net

    Tetris-like

    Block Attack - blockattack package

    Platform games

    JVGS (http://jvgs.sourceforge.net/) - not in repository

    Fish Fillets (http://fillets.sourceforge.net/) - in repository

    Sport

    Neverputt

    Emulators

    • Super Nintendo - zsnes package
    • Nintendo DS - desmumepackage
    • Nintendo 64 - mupen64plus package
    • Nintendo Wii - xwiimote package
    • PlayStation - pcsxr package
    • Atari 2600 - stella package
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