Better Than Solitaire: Frozen Bubble
March 2nd, 2009 by Shawn Powers in
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I find it low that
On March 5th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
I find it low that linux-freaks preach about the greatness of games like frozen bubble and many other, which are just lame copies of real original ideas. Let's try to be original.
Meh
On March 5th, 2009 Shawn Powers says:
It's fun. It's free. It's not like the original is available for Linux users to enjoy.
__________________________Shawn Powers is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal. You might find him chatting on the IRC channel, or Twitter
Frozen Bubble is a clone of
On March 4th, 2009 Anonymous (not verified) says:
Frozen Bubble is a clone of the much more polished Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move) created by Taito.
Princess Penelope
On March 2nd, 2009 waparmley says:
OK, so I introduced my wife to Frozen Bubble as a way to encourage her to boot into the Ubuntu partition occasionally. For a while she was so hooked on the game that I started accusing her of acting like Penny on the Big Bang Theory episode ("The Barbarian Sublimation") where Penny gets addicted to gaming and assumes the on-line persona of "Princess Penelope".
Currently my favorite Linux game is Maelstrom, but I agree that Frozen Bubble is a great game, and hard to quit once you start moving through the levels.
I still miss the Spacewar game that we played on the SDS Sigma Seven at the MSU Cyclotron Lab!
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