Tanks: a classic video game for Linux that will sound like ...

Surely you still remember that console video game that devastated. I am referring to the title Battle City / Tank 1990. Nothing to do with the graphics of Word of Tanks, War Thunder and other current video games, but it did not lack anything to make you have a fun solo session playing against the machine or with a second player who helped you eliminate all enemy tanks without ending up with your eagle, since if so ... Game Over.

For those who do not remember, this video game was a 2D title where one or two tanks appeared in the area below, along with the eagle that you had to protect. Along the screen, there were a series of corridors and labyrinthine constructions of different materials. Some of those indestructible materials, others could be destroyed by a shot, thus generating passageways.

Your goal It was to hunt down and destroy the enemy tanks that were appearing in waves in the upper area of ​​the screen, and that they did not shoot your eagle, destroying the protection that used to surround it and thus being able to destroy it once unprotected.

In addition, he possessed a screen editor in which you could create your own maps to play on, something that was also quite fun, because you could protect the eagle with indestructible materials or make it much more difficult for your enemies to get to you ...

Well, if you feel nostalgic for that video game and want to play again on your distro, you will not need any type of emulator or anything like that, since they have developed one open source implementation called Tanks. It is written in C ++ and uses the SLD2 graphics library.

For install it, you can use these commands in Debian / Ubuntu and derivatives:

sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev libsdl2-image-dev

#Descargar Tanks-master.zip desde el enlace que dejo al final del artículo

#Extraer el directorio dentro del zip

cd Tanks-master

make clean all

cd build/bin && ./Tanks

To playSimply select 1 or 2 players with the arrow keys and start the game. You can use the arrows to move player 1's tank, or the WSAD keys for player 2. ENTER, pause the game, and left and right Ctrl to shoot ...

More information - Tanks site on GitHub