Blues Brothers
Version: GIT Web: https://github.com/cyxx/blues
Blues Brothers is an open source project that lets you play the early 1990s games Blue Brothers, Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventures and Prehistorik 2 natively on Linux. Build using the make command and find the following three executables in the main sources directory: blues, bbja and pre2. Copy the respective file to the directory with the game and launch it – that’s enough to start playing right away. You can also inspect the --help section of the launcher to find some great extra options. For instance, the default game window is very small due to very low original resolution, and you may want to pass the --fullscreen option in order to fix it. Also, you can instantly jump into any level, or enable cheats and get unlimited lives and energy.
Our favourite game is definitely Prehistorik 2, where you lead a caveman through wild lands and fight hostile animals. Even realising how small the game’s textures are and how limited the colour palette, it’s still amazing to see the amount of artwork stuffed into the tiny 1MB. Prehistorik 2 includes over a dozen levels with different landscapes, complex portals and hidden platforms, four weapons, air-frame power-up, bosses, wind and snow effects and a lot more.
We haven’t advanced in Blues Brothers and its sequel far enough, but these two games are no less impressive. There are small differences between the Blues engine experience and the original DOS experience, but we haven’t encountered any issues that would spoil the general impression.
If you are a fan of those Titus games, do give the Blues engine a try!