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ZRacer is a console car racing game. It has a curses based semi-graphical interface, random track generator, editable settings and supports hotseat multiplayer. The rules are simple - the higher on the screen, the faster you ride. Don't crash with rocks, kerbs, or your opponent and be the first on the finish line.

License: free

I took Mark Hanson's "XSC", a clone of the arcade game Star Castle, and ported it from X11 (X-Window) to SDL (the portable Simple DirectMedia Layer library) and added sound effects. The main purpose was to have a Star Castle game running on the Linux-based Sharp Zaurus PDA. It should be trivial to build ports for other platforms SDL supports (Windows, Mac, BeOS, etc.).

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL and SDL_mixer

ZSnake is a free Snake-based game. In case you've never played a snake game, here's what it deals with : You're a snake that can't stop running. You have to eat apples (which makes you bigger) without eating a wall or yourself. ZSnake is composed of 20 levels (+2 hidden). Eating "mystery apples" can help you (more points, more apples, more lives...) or disturb you (the snake moves faster, keys are switched...) ZSnake provides multilingual support (currently English, French, German and Italian). ZSnake is under the GNU/GPL License. It is available as a Java Applet and as a Java Application.

License: free

ZSNES is one of the best SNES emulators on Linux. It can run most of the SNES games at full speed with sound and special graphic filters. It supports mode 7, sound, Super FX, and a lot more.

License: free

Additional System Requirements: SDL