SuperTux

This game got weirdly very popular among kids of a very specific generation, here in Portugal.<p>The &quot;Magalhães&quot;, an Intel Classmate variant that was available to school kids between 2008 and 2010 for a price between 50€ and 0€ (depending in social security status), came bundled with both Windows and a Portuguese Linux distro, which shipped with SuperTux by default.

Shout out to Tux Racer too, still works perfectly (at least the Windows binaries)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxracer.sourceforge.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tuxracer.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a>

I remember playing supertux as a kid when my grandparents bought me a disk of games for my birthday. It was just a bunch of FOSS games like these ripped to a disk and sold to unknowing grandparents.<p>Fun to see that the source is out there on github

I haven&#x27;t played for more than a minute, but reading the README here, it&#x27;s interesting how there&#x27;s a different experience with a FOSS game released but still in development, especially over so many years. Instead of &quot;SuperTux 2&quot; you have incremental changes. &quot;The next level is finished, all the boss battles are improved&quot;. There&#x27;s no canonical versions like there are with at least classic console games. I know modern games have patches and stuff but I don&#x27;t think they rework the game this way but I could be wrong.

I was hoping this would be the belly-sliding game that I had on Mac OS X circa 2001. Someone made it with whatever new-to-MacOS tech to show off what could be done that wasn&#x27;t possible on Mac OS 9 and I downloaded it from somewhere.<p>Was a fun third-person 3d racing game of some sort. Tux raced down a hill covered in snow on his front and you could steer around trees and rocks and such. My memory is probably getting the details wrong.<p>Edit: haunter had the answer. It was a port of TuxRacer.

One of my first linux distro was Knoppix, which had inside incredible games like Kobo Deluxe, Frozen Bubble, The Battle for Wesnoth, and of course SuperTux.

This brings me a long forgotten childhood memory, I remember going to my cousin&#x27;s house and she having a linux machine (It had a linux sticker on it), we played the hell out of this game. Unironically this was also my very first encouter with Linux.

It&#x27;s a little odd that there&#x27;s a wasm build that&#x27;s seemingly only available for download from the official sources, rather than being playable on the web.

Wow, it&#x27;s still alive. Around 20 years ago we modified the sprites of this game to create a new games featuring our classmates and friends. It was great fun.

How is Grumble, anyway? Has he found his sense of snow yet?

classic game

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