Great classic games you can play in your Linux terminal

Think the Linux terminal is a place for dweebs who can't get girl/boyfriends? Think again. While gaming in the Linux terminal won't win any prizes for outrageously good graphics - you can run these games even on low-resource systems. 

Minesweeper

While gaming fads have come and gone in the decades since home computers first appeared on the scene, minesweeper - in various forms - has endured almost untouched, and the Microsoft classic has multiple open-source clones available available for you to install on Linux.

While some of these come with a GUI, our favourite is tui-mines, which gives you a natty Terminal User Interface (TUI), that looks fantastic if you use Cool Retro Terminal instead of your usual white on black text. If you prefer, you can use the terminal emulator that comes bundled with tui-mines. It's up to you, really.

One of the reasons we love tui-mines is that as well as boasting three difficulty levels and Discord integration, you can set the minefield to any size you choose. Find and detonate mines in a puddle, a lake, or across an entire ocean!

Colossal Cave Adventure

What could be more suited to a Linux terminal than a text adventure?

Colossal Cave adventure has the honour of being the first text adventure ever, and sees you deposited in a colossal cave filled with enemies and loot. The aim is simple, grab the loot, slay the enemies, and escape.

The game was originally meant to be played on teletype printers, and there's even a full 3D version available if that's your bag.

We think it's best in the terminal, though.

Roulette

Everyone likes a flutter every now and again, but if the prospect of losing real money on the spin of a wheel terrifies rather than excites you, maybe you should stay off the betting sites and out of the casinos.

terminalroulette is, as the name suggests, a game of roulette that you play in your Linux terminal.

It's simple, it's fun, and you can lose thousands of dollars without actually losing the shirt off your back.

Emulate a complete console in Your Terminal!

If these three aren't enough for you, it's possible to emulate the original Game Boy in your Linux Terminal with PHP. There are thousands of games For the original Game Boy, meaning you'll never need to leave the command line again!