2 Players, 1 Netbook

April 27, 2009 11:37 AM

Can you recommend any simple two-player games (on- or off-line) for a 7" EEE?

I'm keeping my girlfriend company during a full day of medical tests/appointments. We're not gamers, at all. (We've never owned a console; the last computer game either of us bought was Myst.) But we still thought it might be fun to play some pong or whatever during all the downtime.

The only possible "gaming" device we have is an EEE 701 with XP. There should be wifi at the clinic. Is anything fun for two players using a tiny keyboard on a tiny screen with no sound and minimal drive space required? Turn-based, trivia, etc. are all fine. Thanks.

posted by glibhamdreck to computers & internet (8 comments total)

You could play Go on the Dragon Go Server.
posted by Prospero at 11:39 AM on April 27

Backgammon?
posted by Electric Dragon at 12:10 PM on April 27

Any of the Touhou series would do fine. The system requirements for all of them are very, very low, and if you remove the music files the hard drive footprint is almost nil (With music files on my computer, they're showing up at about 130MB each).
posted by Chan at 12:27 PM on April 27

Oregon Trail and other old Apple games at Virtual Apple.
posted by lemonwheel at 12:46 PM on April 27

My wife and I play Scrabble and Lexulous on Facebook while we're watching movies. We each have our own user account on the eee. We just leave our browsers open and pass the eee back and forth and switch users to play a turn.

You could do this with any turn based, online game. We're running Linux but I imagine you can do the same thing on any platform that supports multiple users.

Hope your plan alleviates some of the stress from what sounds like a long day. Good luck!
posted by quarterframer at 12:50 PM on April 27

Is Peggle too much?
posted by sophist at 1:07 PM on April 27

Freeciv?
posted by ellF at 2:26 PM on April 27

Scortched Earth! I'm not up on all the current versions, but it is a blast!
posted by exogenous at 3:22 PM on April 27