Games for old PC

stalefries · 07-08-2005, 04:36 PM

My grandparents have an old computer that they don't use, and I've decided to turn it into a little kids' game computer.

I need suggestions for games that little kids would like, and which do not use a lot of resources.

Pacman clones, tetris clones, etc are acceptable, but please give me some other ideas. Also, "edutainment" games are a good idea, as long as they don't hog resources.

450 mhz P3
32mb RAM
12 GB

computergirl · 07-08-2005, 07:37 PM

Well, there's Supertux (like Super Mario Brothers) but it's stil in beta so I don't know if you'll want that. http://supertux.berlios.de/

Frozen Bubble http://glenn.sanson.free.fr/fb/play.html

both of which have rpms and debs

Also a ton of games that are great for kids or anyone come with KDE. I counted 32 total not including Tux Racer, Frozen Bubble, or Supertux

stalefries · 07-08-2005, 08:48 PM

I'm not using KDE, nor Gnome, because of the bloat. I've played both of those games, they sound good, although they might be a little too resource-heavy for my purposes.

Mega Man X · 07-08-2005, 10:41 PM

Just how old are we talking about?. Because maybe, maybe, you could run some emulators on that PC (like NES or Mastersystem)... maybe... If it's too old, you might consider FreeDOS instead of Linux and search the net after abandonware. You can find great games as Commander Keen flying around ^_^

synaptical · 07-08-2005, 11:03 PM

lbreakout2 should work

http://lgames.sourceforge.net/index....ect=LBreakout2

Mega Man X · 07-09-2005, 12:06 AM

Oops, my bad.. you have actually written the sys specifications on your first post. ^_^. I guess with a little more RAM you could run a few emulators as well. 32 RAM is really low today... the processor is quite alright though =). Can't you get more RAM? a 128 stick should not cost much and should improve your performance by a long shot.

stalefries · 07-09-2005, 11:53 AM

I'm trying to avoid buying stuff.

stalefries · 07-09-2005, 05:57 PM

SuperTux came preloaded, so did LBreakout (2?). They both run fine.

mammlouk · 07-16-2005, 10:08 PM

I know you said no kDE or gnome because of bloat, but you might check out this site.

http://edu.kde.org/

I don't know if any of the games can be run without KDE or not, but it's worth a look.