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I have to say, while I was excited about the prospect of a tiny computer for around £20 when it was just in the pipeline, now we’re seeing what it can really do, I desperately want one for myself. The Raspberry Pi can play Quake 3, and I don’t mean just run it, I mean actually play it; faster than my full-blown PC did back when it was first released in fact.
I know there are Quake 3 ports out there that run great on Android phones, and id’s classic death match first-person shooter is over 12 years old, but to see the Pi handle it in its stride is still impressive. Time to start tooling-up for a bit of Quake 3 again; those finely honed railgun skills must have dulled a bit over the years. [YouTube via Raspberry Pi]
Thanks Darrell!
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How great would it be to have a LAN tournament using R-Pi’s exclusively!? Maybe at the next GizUK meet??
Make it happen! 
It would certainly be a lot easier than LAN tournaments of old. Its a lot easier to carry the PI than a desktop PC.
Exactly! This would be perfect for such an event…
I’d like to see the original Unreal Tournament ported to run on the R-Pi, which I lost many many more hours playing!
Aye, with UT and Q3A you’d pretty much have all the LAN death match requirements down. Maybe a port of HL with Counter Strike, but perhaps that’s asking a bit much?
it’s an interesting point. If the PI becomes as ubiquitous as they hope it will be will we see a lot more demand for games to be ported to linux.
Hopefully that’ll end up with more games being ported to OS X as well. Although if you look at some of the horrendous ports available on a Mac, I doubt the Pi would be able to handle them. Efficient they are not.
indeed. and there’s not many trackpad-friendly ports for mac. plus i don’t like using a magic mouse
No you need a decent PC mouse for gaming. Something with actual buttons and a scroll wheel.
I think I missed Quake 3, what’s it all about?
It’s kind of like Angry Birds
…with rocket launchers.
No, seriously it is NOTHING like Angry Birds.
Nothing like Angry Birds….so is it more like Fruit Ninja or Cut the Rope?
I wonder if it can run bridge basher?
But can it run Crysis?
No, but given it’s size it will certainly blend.