The Abbey of Crime Extensum is a remake of a classic Spanish videogame, La Abadía del Crimen. It was developed by OperaSoft in 1987, inspired by Il nome della rosa (The name of the rose) written by Umberto Eco. It’s a well-known example of the Golden Era of Spanish Software. Although its difficulty, it quickly became a cult videogame. The game features 3D isometric graphics in 8 bits machines.
ScummVM is an emulator of graphical adventures. Initially designed to play SCUMM games from LucasArts, soon it gained support for more and more games. Now supports hundreds of old graphical adventures. To add a game just choose Add Game… and select the folder where the game is. Then you can set some settings. Once you have configured the game you can play it. And that’s it! Some of the greatest games you can play in ScummVM are:
XRick is a clone of the famous game Rick Dangerous. It’s a platform action game. The plot was inspired by Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. Rick travels to Amazonas looking for the Goolu tribe, goes to Egypt, he fights in the Schwarzendumpf castle and finally goes to London where the aliens are attacking the town. Rick can jump and climb, he has bombs and bullets for the weapon.
Lopan is a SDL implementation of the classical Chinese solitaire game Ma Jongg. Like other Mah Jongg implementations, you try to remove all the pieces. To remove pieces you must select a pair of pieces with the same drawing. Press ESC to exit, RETURN to shuffle again, Arrow keys can be used as Undo/Redo, F1 changes the drawings of the pieces and F2 changes the background. Install Lopan on Haiku Lopan was developed by Dave Ashley and it’s under the GNU GPL v2 license.
Alien Blaster is an arcade action game. You must keep going while you’re destroying enemies’ spaceships. You have multiple weapons. Use the arrow keys to move your spaceshi, CTRL key to fire, SHIFT key to change weapon. Select a special attack with Y and fire that attack with ALT. The games supports local multiplayer. Just bring a friend and choose their keys. While you’re playing you can collect green circles.