Play Nintendo Super Mario Bros on Linux (Secret
Mario Chronicles) and SuperTux
Are you looking for
free software version of the old-school
absolute Nintendo classic
Super Mario Bros. ? :)
If you're an old-school geek gamer like me you definitely do
;)
I was lucky to find
Secret Mario Chronicles a Linux version
of
Super Mario while I was browsing through all the
available for installation Linux games in
aptitude .
The game is really great and worthy to be played. It's even a
better copy of the classical arcade game than
SuperTux
(another Mario like Linux clone game)
Both
Super Mario Chronicles and Super Mario Bros are
available for installation as .deb packages in the repositories of
Ubuntu and Debian and most likely the other Debian direvative Linux
distrubtion.
To install and play the games out of the box, if you're a Debian or
Ubuntu user, just issue:
linux:~# apt-get install smc supertux
The other good news are that both of the games's engine, music and
graphics are GPLed :)
To Launch the games after installation in GNOME I've used the
menus:
Applications -> Games -> Super Mario Chronicles
and Applications -> Games -> Arcade ->
SuperTux
The games can also be launched from terminal with commands:
hipo@debian:~$ smc
or hipo@debian:~$ supertux
The only thing I don't like about
Super Mario Chronicles is
that it doesn't have a good music and only sounds, just to compare
SuperTux has an awesome level music.
Along with being an absolute classic I should say that these two
games are one of the really good arcade games produced for Linux
and if I have to rank them as a gamer among all the other boring
arcade games today available for Linux this two ones ranks in the
top 10 arcade games prdocuced for Linux
Enjoy and drop me a thanks comment
!