Survey: Good games to play on the plane with your laptop or notebook

Seth Brundle

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Dec 21, 2001, 5:43:24 PM12/21/01

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I have a ton of games, but very few are great to play on the plane.
The best I have is Red Alert 2. Most first-person shooters dont
translate well.

Anyone else have some favorite airplane games, or have suggestions for
others which fit these criteria:

1. Can be used with a kb + touchpad/pointing stick with no problem.
2. Work well on sub 1-Ghz computers with mediocre 3d video.
3. Ideally can be installed without needing CD to run.
4. Excellent single-player gameplay.

Taichen

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Dec 21, 2001, 6:50:37 PM12/21/01

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If you are into such kind of games, try ADOM or nethack.
(rec.games.roguelike.adom, rec.games.roguelike.nethack)

They are ASCII games, written in DOS but ported to many OS .
It sounds weird if you don't know them but are EXTREME adictive and
provide lots of fun gaming expreience. They are different, but in both
you're baically an adventurer in a fantasy land, get involved in
quests, etc

Have a good flight.

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Adam Bolli

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Dec 21, 2001, 9:48:37 PM12/21/01

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Uplink. A brilliant hacking game. Can run on a P100.

go to www.introversion.co.uk

AJ

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Dec 22, 2001, 10:54:20 AM12/22/01

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(Seth Brundle) wrote:

Tux Racer wins that one, hands down:

http://www.tuxracer.com/

Chas

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Dec 22, 2001, 12:21:36 PM12/22/01

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3D Monopoly is a kick, and it eats up the flying time, and runs completely
with a mouse.

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Emanuel Brown

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Dec 22, 2001, 2:34:24 PM12/22/01

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On 21 Dec 2001 14:43:24 -0800, brundl...@hotmail.com (Seth Brundle)
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I recommend MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator), a program that
let's you play old video games almost *exactly* how they were in the
arcade. If you've got an old favorite, I'd check www.mame.net and/or
www.mame.dk to see if it's been ported. I still enjoying playing
Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Joust, Robotron 2084 and the like. There are
over 2000 games available. As you might imagine, the controllers and
graphics for these games aren't very sophisticated, so a keyboard and
any decent video chip are more than adequate. They also don't require
a lot of space -I've got about 20 games on my drive taking up about
4MB.
Emanuel
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Unknown

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Dec 24, 2001, 2:16:11 PM12/24/01

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On 21 Dec 2001 14:43:24 -0800, brundl...@hotmail.com (Seth Brundle)
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>I have a ton of games, but very few are great to play on the plane.

If you're also into turn-based strategy, check out Space Empires III,
which is tiny and runs on any machine. The original Jagged Alliance
(now in bargain bins) will run without a CD, too.

Alternatively, you can use a no CD crack to run pretty much any game
you have so long as you have enough hard drive space. I've used one
for RA2 and it works fine. You have to copy the movies from _both_
CDs, tho, which takes a whole lot of hard drive space.

Brian

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Dec 25, 2001, 7:18:18 PM12/25/01

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Don't take a flight simulator, if you cash the plane you might worry
about the real thing happening :=)

Age of Empires
Board games
Puzzle games if you have a long flight ahead of you.

regards Brian

Seth Brundle

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Dec 25, 2001, 10:34:05 PM12/25/01

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thanks everyone for the posts.
I gave up on the no-cd criteria - Homeworld and Commandos II seems promising.