Quake III Arena was one of the only video games ever released for Linux.

[fluchtkapsel@nerdculture.de]

@SwiftOnSecurity I bought Neverwinter Nights back then because they had an official Linux version.

[jaark@infosec.exchange]

@SwiftOnSecurity I had that steel/tin box version too. Happy memories.
I'm pretty sure there was some civilisation game that I got the boxed (cardboard, not metal) release of too.

[cruftbox@mastodon.social]

@SwiftOnSecurity I had a copy. 25 years ago...

[minus9@hachyderm.io]

@SwiftOnSecurity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_games

[sasutina13@lgbtqia.space]

@SwiftOnSecurity I still have it, still in the can.

[gbraad@mastodon.social]

@Mayabotics @SwiftOnSecurity

They also made some great ports of 2D games

There was Call to Power.

[devnull@mamot.fr]

@ferdifz *One of the few games ever sold in a retail box*, among games that were released *natively* for Linux...

There are plenty of games released natively for Linux¹: Life is Strange, Life is Strange BtS, Life is Strange 2, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, multiple Warhammer games, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider… to name a few from only a single developer/publisher.

1. As is natively using Vulkan. So I'm obviously not referring to Valve's Proton

@SwiftOnSecurity

[mayabotics@tech.lgbt]

@gbraad @SwiftOnSecurity That and Railroad Tycoon II were the games I wanted the most.

I already had the windows version of Alpha Centauri, so I didn't want to spend my limited pocket money on it.

The one retailer that carried Loki games though only ever seemed to have stuff like Quake III.

[gmh@mastodon.social]

@avaelin @SwiftOnSecurity Same here! - it bent very quickly and would grate horribly whenever you tried to slide the box open.

[mehdi_benadel@mastodon.balamb.fr]

@SwiftOnSecurity in 1999 damn, they were very ahead of their time

[mehdi_benadel@mastodon.balamb.fr]

@SwiftOnSecurity 64MB of RAM, 233MHz CPU, 25MB of uncompressed disk space. Those were great times.

I still remember when NASCAR crashed on start saying "You have 32MB of RAM, you need 64MB to run this game" lol

[hoolis@oldbytes.space]

@SwiftOnSecurity Aw, a joke foiled by autocorrect, looks like.

[mehdi_benadel@mastodon.balamb.fr]

@SwiftOnSecurity Tomb Raider 2 also wouldn't run on our Pentium 75MHz, we bought a 133MHz just after lol

[swiftonsecurity@infosec.exchange]

@cruftbox okay you win the thread

[rakslice@mastodon.social]

@SwiftOnSecurity in very much the same way as palantir is one of microsoft's only business partners