Abe's Amazing Adventure, A Dangerous Dave 2 like
GNU Linux / FreeBSD Arcade Game substitute
While looking over the installable packages in
System ->
Administration -> Software Center on my my Debian powered
notebook, I've accidently rolled over a game called
Abe's
Amazing Adventure , as a big oldschool
arcade game fan,
I've immediately clicked on
Install being impatient to see
the overall game atmosphere and gameplay as well as
storyline.
Abe's Amazing Adventure is available under the debian
package name
abe and can be installed by issuing:
debian:~# apt-get install abe
I was pleasently
surprised to find out the gameplay and the overall game feels like
the
golden classical arcade game Dangerous Dave
For youngsters who never played the amazing absolute killing arcade
! as well as for people who feel nostalgic about Dangerous Dave 2
here is a nice gameplay screenshot:
Here is also a screenshot of Abe's Amazing Adventure
gameplay:
You can see the great resemblense between the two games even by the
screenshot; In both games you have to collect keys to open doors
and diamonds which gives you points. Of course there are some
differences as you can see Abe's Amazing Adventure 's
graphics has some additional items like Baloons with which your
main character can fly over distances (for a limited time). There
is also more diversity in the enemy types you face on the road to
unlock the different doors. The game has also a red stars which
while taken saves the game so if you quit the game on next game
load up starting the game automatically starts you from the last
save point.
The ( 6 ) baloons seen in the screenshot on the left upper corner
can be used occasionally to fly some distance by pressing Enter
.
There are health recovery kits one can take to recover, some
health damaged by hitting obstacles on the way.
The game story is short but entertaining, just like the general
game feel:
The game music is relaxing and more or less in the spirit of arcade
games, the keyboard interactivety is pretty good as well. One thing
I see can be improved to make the game better are the graphics,
they're a bit childish and too cubical, where sometimes some more
general characters and obstacles animation will give the game a
better look. Anyways for the year 2003 and for a free software
arcade the game is not bad. For children and growing kids the game
is just perfect, even for big kids like me its good to spend an
hour of jump and run fun ;)