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Better Than Solitaire: Frozen Bubble

Mar 02, 2009  By Shawn Powers
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The best Linux-native productivity killer around.

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I find it low that

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 08:09.

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

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Submitted by Shawn Powers on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 08:31.

It's fun. It's free. It's not like the original is available for Linux users to enjoy.

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Frozen Bubble is a clone of

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 12:20.

Frozen Bubble is a clone of the much more polished Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-A-Move) created by Taito.

Princess Penelope

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Submitted by waparmley on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 13:28.

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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