A rundown of the biggest, most expansive and impressive games that you can run entirely in your Linux shell.

The original UNIX operating system was created, in large part, to facilitate porting a video game to a different computer. And, without UNIX, we wouldn't have Linux, which means we owe the very existence of Linux to...video games.

• AsciiPatrol
• Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead
• SSHTron
• DoomRL
• Ascii Sector
• Dwarf Fortress
• Frotz
• Cool-Retro-Term